Letter to the Editor: Re: antisemitism and the "woke right"I have to confess I was initially puzzled as to your characterization of antisemitism and hard right nationalists as the "woke right." ...
Tuesday Letters on Tuesday, as Is Proper
Great Death
“I ask that our service would be potent and powerful
In administering death—the kind of great death
That is followed by grace, by great resurrections.”
21 Prayers, p. 17
The Whole Class Watching
“The Jews were the chosen nation, not in the sense of election to Heaven, but in the sense of a chosen pupil, selected to come to the front to show the rest of the class how the problem was to be solved. When that student does well, he is blessed. He is the class hero. When he messes up, he messes up in front of everybody. But the whole class is always involved.”
American Milk and Honey, p. 98
Epistemological Impudence and the Post War Consensus
Introduction: In the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, the flush of that spectacular victory provided an opportunity for the secularists to make their move—and make it they most certainly ...
Quicksilver Evangelism
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A Bloody Crew
“They are carnal, of the flesh, worldly. They are of their father the devil. And the number that belongs in this category is too great to itemize, although we can mention a few—Caiaphas and his crew, Tomas de Torquemada, Saul before his conversion, Bloody Mary, numerous medieval managers of pogroms, Himmler as the architect of the Final Solution, the incipient totalitarianism of Herbert Marcuse and his doctrine of repressive tolerance, and of course, Stalin. There is a long chain of other names, but to mention them all would soon become morbid.”
American Milk and Honey, p. 87
From the World’s Footings
“I pray that Your Spirit would unveil things hidden,
Hidden from man since the world’s first foundation.”
21 Prayers, p. 16
One Way to Look at It
Don’t Turn Into That
“The New Testament warning, delivered to the Gentiles, is [to] not become like your persecutors. Do not turn into your adversary. If you turn into what you hate, it indicates you only thought you hated their sleek arrogance of power. You didn’t hate it—you envied it.”
American Milk and Honey, p. 84
Bleeding Authority
“Use this worship service, I pray, I beseech You
To unmask all falsehood by Your Word of authority,
Authority that bleeds from the side of the gospel.
I pray that the word of Your gospel would reign.”
21 Prayers, p. 14