Theology That Bites Back
The board of New St. Andrews College meets four times a year. One of the things that we do together is assign a book at each board meeting, and we read it together with a plan to discuss it at the following meeting. It is quite a beneficial exercise, and there is a wide array …
Introduction: Over the years, I have had periodic occasion to wish that more Christian women in bad situations would show the courage and initiative shown by the biblical heroine Abigail. I ...
Sermon Video Introduction: And the evening and the morning were the eighth day. We should not be surprised at the pattern of darkness and then light, a pattern which we see not only in the creation ...
“It is not antisemitism to believe that Jews are sinful. This is simply orthodox Christianity. All of us are sinful. But antisemitism does believe that Jews are uniquely sinful, and particularly destructive. As a stand-alone dogma, this is nonsense.”
American Milk and Honey, p. xvi
“We should not have Aslan for a friend if we brought in that rabble,” said Trufflehunter as they came away from the cave of the Black Dwarfs. “Oh, Aslan!” said Trumpkin, cheerily but contemptuously. ...
“Antisemitism is the notion that Jews are uniquely malevolent and destructive in their cultural, economic, and political influence in the world.”
American Milk and Honey, p. xv
That Was Really Something: Just Right: Right to the Point: A Song I Really Like for Some Reason: HT: Samuel Cherubin: Featured Product: Virgins and Volcanoes:This book is a collection of posts from Blog & Mablog, collected, collated, arranged, and then sandpapered to make it seem more like a regular book. The central theme of …
I trust that you will not take it amiss if I wish you and yours a very full and complete Thanksgiving. If drowsiness is caused by tryptophan, which it might not be, may your turkey be unusually full of it, and may your nap be most pleasant. These good wishes include both my enemies and …
“We must indeed learn how to fight for nature, not by means of nature. Natural affections by themselves do not empower us to engage on behalf of nature. But anyone who cannot identify the crackle of envy in antisemitism, or the smell of sulfur that wafts off of it, is not qualified for pastoral ministry” (American Milk and Honey, p. xv).
