“The desire to be found winsome by the world puts the standard completely in the grasp of Old Slew-foot. He is the one who now determines whether or not you are being winsome. No, no. Scoot farther to the left.”
Content Cluster [06-11-26]
Saving Time: China Compass Interview: A Road With a Decorated Ceiling: More here. A Song I Really Like for Some Reason: Finally Found Them: HT: Samuel Cherubin: E.J. Paprocki Featured Product: Education (Chrestomathy):This small book is a collection of my quotations on the subject of education, taken from sources all over tarnation. The word chrestomathy …
A Never Ending War
“We are at war with crapola, and are willing to use words like crapola as the occasion demands.”
Boomer Woes
Full Disclosure: I was born in 1953, and therefore have to confess that I am a boomer, right there in the middle of the pack. There were boomers ahead of me, and boomers behind me, and absolutely ...
Not to Mention the Candied Peels
“And if f-bombs were raisins, The Gospel Coalition loves to laud and celebrate movies that would be the equivalent of a five-pound fruitcake.”
Letters That Float Like Leaves Down the River
Letter to the Editor: What is the biblical understanding of forgiveness? What does it mean to forgive someone? I need clarity in this regard because I’m finding it difficult to forgive ...
Debates Where Nobody Wins
“In this kind of debate, unless everybody watches his step closely, things can get pretty stupid—like a couple of dogs, neither of them very smart, debating quantum physics. ‘No! Arf, arf!’”
That PCA Report on Christian Nationalism
Introduction: So last Thursday the first part of the PCA's study report on Christian nationalism dropped. For those who would check it out, here you go. The following is what I tweeted at the time, ...
A Prayer for the Lord’s Day
Great God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,I turn to You now, and I ask You for grace.I pray for the grace that descends from above,That is quiet, and peaceable, and easily entreated. I ask for the grace of Your wisdom and peace. I ask for the grace of Your power and mightThat Your …
Queen of the Persians #5
Introduction: In this passage, the evil design that Haman has for all the Jews is revealed to everyone, and it hits like a thunderbolt. Mordecai reacts with great grief in the city of Shushan, but ...