“We want the world to become Christian the way the devil offered to make it Christian, if only Jesus would bow down and worship him. But God works a different calculus, and He had His only-begotten Son hanged on a gibbet instead. What was He doing? He was making the world Christian, but He was doing it His way and on His timetable. But He was making the world Christian (John. 12:31). Jesus, by and through His death, cast out the prince of this world. And, by the way, in the original Greek “cast out” does not mean “kept around.”
The Letters Have Turned Decemberesque
Letter to the Editor: "Was Chamberlain a long-suffering saint, or was he an appeaser—to use Churchill’s metaphor, a man who throws others to the alligators, hoping to be the last one ...
We Want It Hot and Now
“But one of our current problems is that we are a convenience store civilization, and we want the next iteration of our civilization to be obtainable the same way we get coffee at the convenience store. We want to plonk our two dollars on the counter and walk out of there with the coffee.”
On Suffering Fools Gladly
Introduction: If I might, I would like to introduce another metric to help us understand our social and cultural and political landscape, the landscape that is disintegrating all around us. This ...
Immanuel
Introduction: We are now in Advent, and so we naturally look forward to celebrating the birth of the Messiah. But we must do so as biblically based Christians—always building on the bedrock of the ...
A Tidy Profit
“When nothing grows up but troubles, we are called to become trouble farmers, and to sell our crop at a tidy profit.”
AI Transforms Everything
A November Manifesto
Introduction: The task before us is far more comprehensive than spot cleaning our cultural carpet. The West has more problems than a stubborn stain here or there. We stare at the carpet, thinking ...
Thanksgiving, the Living God, and the Gravy of Gratitude
Although we are in the backstretch of No Quarter November, it is in no way inappropriate to embrace this designated day as a brief hiatus and respite. So we take this opportunity to wish you and yours ...
To Pray for the End is to Pray for the Means
“We cannot pray for the purification of the silver, and then despair when we begin to approach the furnace that removes the dross.”