Letter to the Editor: I have a question regarding communion. I am part of a church that was baptist for many years before switching over to covenant theology, including paedobaptism but not ...
Halcyon Letters for Halcyon Times
Going On All the Time
“This is the kind of thing have when you have two men, the best of friends, calling in love with the same girl. It happens when you have twin brothers wanting the favor or blessing of their father or the rule of the city. It happens when one church is enormously blessed where the other church across town ‘should have been.’”
A Theology of Slut Walks
A great deal can be learned if we just take the effort to make sense out of things that make no sense. Of course, we can never make sense of the nonsensical, by definition, but we can learn why things that make no sense are nonetheless happening. Every absurd conclusion is, at some level, a …
The Way of the Old World
“Mimetic rivalry and conflict have taken root in that society as the ultimate contagion, and the hostility ratchets steadily upward. The ‘old way’ of dealing with this was to allow the crowd to spontaneously choose a victim, in whose guilt they had to absolutely believe. They killed or exile this person in a spasm of righteousness, and the cathartic effect takes effect. Peace is restored. It is fitting that one man die for the sake of the people, as one operator of this system once put it.”
Write What You Know
VIrgins and Volcanoes
“We are living two millennia after Jesus died. Victimage still goes on, certainly, but not the robust way it did back when respectable people could still throw virgins into volcanoes” ().
Content Cluster [03-05-26]
An Old Trick: It Had Been an Open Road: A Song I Really Like for Some Reason: And just so you know, this one is by Joe Rigney’s uncle . . . Gotta Keep An Eye On Those Things: HT: Samuel Cherubin: Vladimir Kirilov Featured Product: Smashmouth Incrementalism:Over the years, I have written a good …
And It Does Too
“One time many years ago, I went to a football game with my father. We entered the dome, where all the fans were whooping and hollering and carrying on, and my dad looked around—with a true instinct for this kind of thing—and said, ‘Well, it beats a public hanging.’”
Strategic Next Steps in DC
Under the Lord’s guidance and goodness, we began conducting worship services at Christ Church DC last July. We have been most gratified and blessed at the growth we have enjoyed. With the exception of that one freak snowstorm, attendance has really been robust, We have been greatly encouraged by God’s faithfulness—He has provided us with …
A Mound of Pink Cotton Balls
More needs to said about the idea of cultural justification. Apart from an understanding of this, there is no hope of grasping the deep divisions that the debates over same sex mirages are revealing. Note that I did not say that these debates are creating these division, but rather that they are revealing them. Same …