Theology That Bites Back
Logos School here in Moscow recently announced their plans to build a track and field complex and, having obtained permission from TPUSA, to name it after Charlie Kirk. This kind of thing is mightily offensive to the progressive left, which is going in big these days for assassination chic. In contrast, we simply wanted to …
Introduction: Just a few short days ago, Dinesh D’Souza decided to start talking trash about Calvinism online, and—let us be frank—that created something of a set-to. The imbroglio consisted of two parts. One part had to do with the standard doctrinal questions which naturally arise whenever these questions come up. “Thou wilt say then unto …
Introduction: Suppose that some families, new to the area, were getting acquainted over a meal. They had all recently moved here, and so the husbands were explaining what they do, and how they make ...
“This is equivalent to Luther’s comment (which may be apocryphal) that he would rather be governed by a wise Turk than a foolish Christian. Quite so, but we must also remember there are two other options as well. Beware of false dichotomies. There is also the option of the foolish Turk and the wise Christian.”
Concise and to the Point, p. 85
“Christian orthodoxy requires us to deny that the mind and the brain are synonymous. For the secularist, the brain is the driver of the car. For the Christian, the brain is the clutch and transmission that the (invisible) driver of the car, a driver named Soul, Heart, or Mind, uses to make the car go. For the Christian, the glow-brain reductionism of the secularist is like taking x-rays of the clutch in an attempt to find out what song the driver is humming and why he is so happy to get to his destination. A great deal of what makes us go will never be reducible to brain scans.”
Concise and to the Point, p. 84
And for the Best Supporting Role, the Award Goes to . . .: Perhaps the First Song Dedicated to Him: Road Into the Gloaming: HT: Samuel Cherubin: Sergey Hamaljan Seems More Efficient: A Song I Like for Some Reason: Featured Product: Concise and to the Point: Over the years I have had occasion to assemble …
“When the secular counselor gets to the brain, he has found the roof of the cavern. When the Christian counselor gets to the brain, he has found the bottom step of a staircase that leads up to the top of the tower that looks out over the sea.”
Concise and to the Point, p. 84.
Introduction: Last week we taped an episode of Man Rampant for our upcoming season, and the interview was with Larry Sanger, the man who initially built out Wikipedia. He has done quite a number ...
