Letter to the Editor: Has it really been four years since that piece on Horror to which I responded? Having a large batch of children is like stepping into a time acceleration machine. As ...
Despite Our Best Efforts, Letters Still Arrived
Which Is Harder Than It Sounds
“Joseph did not find himself ruling Egypt because he graduated from the right law school. Daniel did not find himself a great man in Babylon through some shrewd Mesopotamian logrolling. They got where they did because they had backbones that would not bend.”
The Cultural Mind, p. 148
Which It Does Not
Another “error is the idea that since the Gospel will have political effects, politics can have a Gospel effect.”
The Cultural Mind, p. 148
Okay, So Halloween is Almost Here Again
Introduction: So I have written before on the subject of Halloween, both here and here. Some of what I say today will make better sense if you read those two pieces first. But that’s just a suggestion—you don’t have to. It’s a free country, or used to be at any rate. Every year around this …
Audio Reading of Post
A Blizzard of Troubles
Authentic Ministry 14/Second Corinthians: Sermon Video Introduction: The early church father John Chrysostom once said that the apostle Paul had gone through a “blizzard of troubles.” This ...
Good Idea
Content Cluster Muster [10-20-22]
Go Ahead and Buy One. You Know You Want To.: Or click here. Open Road, But Less Inviting: And more here. A Helpful Explainer: A Song I Really Like for Some Reason: Yes, Quite: Keep Life Simple: The Same Thing Another Way: Jokes I Like to Tell: What was the conversation like between the Italian …
Exhortation for Knox Presbytery 2022
The background for this exhortation is a proposed memorial we will be considering later on, but the general relevance of this exhortation is very much fitted to the times in which we find ourselves. These are the times in which our secularist overlords are striving to impose a humanist cultural homogenization on the entire planet, …
Aiming for Calm Results, No Matter What
“The first is the error of the man who insists we should ‘just preach the Gospel,’ but who also believes intensely that the Gospel can permeate an unbelieving society without throwing that society into cultural upheaval. In order to get the desired calm result, the Gospel that is preached has to be ethereal, otherworldly, and impotent.”
The Cultural Mind, p. 148
251: This Christian Nationalism Thing
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