Letter to the Editor: The Tender Mercies of the WickedYes and Amen! This is one of my takeaways from reading Rushdoony's 'Institutes of Biblical Law.'"The nearly complete elimination of capital ...
Letters Just Keep Appearing
Without Admitting It
“If we reject the substitution of Jesus, then we will continue in the ways of killing in order that we might hide from ourselves the fact that we are killing all the time.”
As Events in the Middle East Unfold . . .
Introduction: Because of my travel schedule, I had to work on all my posting a week and a half ahead of time. Because of this, all my hot takes on Iran will be a week or so out from now, and will be lukewarm takes. Lukewarm, but probably better informed.— Douglas Wilson (@douglaswils) March 1, …
The Tender Mercies of the Wicked
Introduction: Our criminal justice system is one that defiles both the jailers and the jailed. It affects the jailers negatively, and the society the jailers represent, because of its manifest injustice. ...
Book of the Month/March 2026
My selected book this time around is Gray Mirror by Curtis Yarvin. It was provocative in all the right ways and places, and I enjoyed it very much. And by “provocative,” I don’t necessarily mean agreement, although there was plenty of that. It is as though Yarvin were a very talented landscaper, and I admired …
Sanctification by Grace 2
Introduction: So this is the second of three messages, all of them emphasizing the grace of God. All three sermons are related to the same text. The messages are Salvation by Grace, Sanctification ...
Seeing the Blow Land
“That is what the substitutionary atonement of Christ did in history—it made all other sacrifices impotent, precisely to the extent that it was a real sacrifice. That is what penal substitution was for.”
Really New in Fact
The Importance of And
“The real problem, the problem of justice and heaven, is resolved in the cross. Christ died as a blood atonement so that God could be both just and the one who justifies. God could be just and send us all to Hell. He could be the one who justifies and let us all into Heaven on a boys-will-be-boys basis. But in order to be both just and the one who justifies, Christ had to bleed. And that is our final theodicy. Christ is the one who bled.”
Content Cluster [02-26-26]
Well, Snap: Open Autumn Road: More here. A Song I Really Like for Some Reason: Two More Toasts, and They Are Done: Hands Are Hard: HT: Samuel Cherubin: Harry He Featured Product: The Blenheim Talks:Almost ten years ago, I gave a series of three lectures at a conference in the UK. As a result of …