Dear Darla, Okay, so now we are getting into some treacherous territory. This is an area fraught with peril, and one of the reasons it is so perilous is that we all, for emotional reasons, have decided to ignore and suppress a major facet of male/female interactions. The end result is that nobody knows what …
The Cauldron of War Fever
“As many isolated and lonely Christians have found out, any reluctance to throw oneself into the cauldron of war fever is usually taken as some species of treachery.”
The Cultural Mind, p. 41
Letters on the Threshold of June
Letter to the Editor: When it comes to honoring the Sabbath, I have lately been thinking that as automation and artificial intelligence become more common place in our lives, Christians may ...
Bathrobe Time
“While their benefits have no doubt been many, church pageants have also had the unfortunate result of making us think that biblical characters did little more than stand around in their bathrobes.”
The Cultural Mind, p. 39
White Boy Summer, or How Republics Rot
Introduction: When the thick fog of a judicial stupor has descended upon a people, there is really no way to write a sprightly article that will successfully explain to everyone how we might ...
The Ascension and the Gunk in Our Brains
Sermon Video Introduction: Whenever we discuss the incarnation of Christ, or His death and resurrection, or His ascension, we are talking about something that is much more important than simple ...
Freedom, Not Fussiness
“When the Spirit is grieved by elder boards packed with schoolmarms, liberty disappears along with any understanding of what true liberty even is. And when we have lost this understanding in the community of saints, we are dreaming to think we can find it anywhere else . . . Not to put too fine a point on it, we are becoming slaves of men in the political realm because we do not care enough about understanding liberty in the church. Freedom frightens us.”
The Cultural Mind, p. 37
Gnarled
The stump is pulled, and gnarled, twisted, bent, It leans in awkward and in angled ways. Forgotten are the harvests that it sent Into the world to nourish and amaze. I say forgotten but that isn’t right, How could the fruit forget the sap and root? To be enjoyed, to be a sweetened bite Is …
As It Should Be
Those Vulnerable Not Sins
“A willingness to turn sins into crimes will always end up with a willingness to turn not-sins into crimes. The spectacle of an ATF anti-alcohol SWAT team crashing the wedding at Cana ought to be sufficient to make the chilling point.”
The Cultural Mind, p. 36