“Remember the perfections of Jesus, and marvel at this crowning perfection—the fact that He was not totally exasperated all the time, in every conversation He ever had.”
Insurrection Barbie and the Plains of Meggido
Introduction: It is getting to the point where you can’t really tell the players without a scorecard. There are so many things going on, and all at the same time, and various theologies are woven in and out of them, and then the Internet circulates all of these items at a high rate of speed—as …
What Makes Satan’s Factories Hum
“Preaching a propitiatory sacrifice is something that disrupts the way of the world. It unhinges how the world works. It gets in the way; it jams the signal. It cuts of the power that makes all the machinery in Satan’s factories hum so nicely.”
Halcyon Letters for Halcyon Times
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 ...
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 …