“All societies are theocratic, with the only thing distinguishing them being the nature and attributes of the reigning theos.”
Not That Daughter Either
“We can all acknowledge that a father spitting in his daughter’s face is not something that we would call a great moment in child-rearing. This is obviously a family with some serious dysfunction going on. Nobody reading this should want to be that dad. So don’t be that dad. Not ever. But here is the point. Suppose I had gone a different route and said something like “Whatever you do, don’t be that daughter, man. Whatever she did, it must have been pretty bad.” Enlightened moderns everywhere would be aghast. They would be aghast for a reason, and that reason is the thing I want to point to. The striking thing here is that, even in such a grim scenario, all the social pressure in ancient Israel was applied to the daughter, and not to the father. She was the one who bore the shame” ‘If this happened, should she not be ashamed for seven days?’ This default assumption seems almost inconceivable to us. We tend to wonder, ‘Why was the father not arrested and charged?’”
Keep Your Kids, p. 72
Content Cluster [07-03-25]
She’s Saying There’s a Chance: And Another Podcast Also: This interview was a real pleasure . . . Just Right: A Song I Really Like for Some Reason: Watching His Step: HT: Samuel Cherubin: Rafaele Fiore They Left Out the Obvious Culprit: Featured Product: Blue Sky Vision:A few years ago, I had the honor of …
Content Cluster [07-03-25]
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Book of the Month/July 2025
The selection is a treasure. It is a collection of essays (by different authors) working through the individual religious histories of the first thirteen states. In addition, as something of a bonus, it also contains the religious histories of states that came in later—states like Vermont, Maine, Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio, Louisiana, Missouri, and Florida. The …
Beyond the Five Solas
Make sure to find the understated message . . . As we try to make good sense of what is happening here in Moscow, not to mention some other parts of the country, we need to do this in the light ...
True Eye of Faith
“When you look around your home at a little sea of toddlers, you should look forward to the time when you’re sitting around a table with your grown children and their grown children, telling stories and laughing together. You are at one end of the table, and your wife is at the other end, and you’re talking about how God has used your family. That is the joy that is set before you. That is what you have your eye on as you trust God’s promises. Don’t look at the chaos and get sucked down into it as though it determines everything. It doesn’t determine anything.”
Keep Your Kids, p. 66
Already Accomplished
“I propose that as a nation we formally confess together that Jesus actually did rise from the dead. If you protest that this would kill the great secular experiment that is America, I would reply that the great secular experiment that is America appears to have already gone out behind the barn and shot itself already.”
Letters in the Aftermath of the General Assembly
Letter to the Editor: Hmmm. "What we need now are true and good men " . . . I'm not up on all the personalities , but what we we need is people to preach and teach the gospel and to disciple ...
Thin and Thick
“Mere Christendom needs to be thin when it comes to the differences between Lutherans and Methodists, Presbyterians and Baptists, and so on. But it needs to manage to do this without thinning out the contents of the Apostles’ Creed. It needs to be thick there.”