Ah. There’s the Trouble.
Not Two Billiard Balls
“In a perichoretic world, the gift need not displace the Giver, as though they were two billiard balls. In the material world, the space that one object occupies is space that another object cannot occupy. We carry our assumptions about this over into the spiritual world, and we consequently assume that if we are thinking about meat on the grill, bees in the honeysuckle, a sweet wife in bed, beer in a frosted glass, or a full tank of gas and lots of Wyoming ahead, then we cannot be thinking about God also, or be living in gratitude before Him. But I don’t believe this is the case at all.”
Chestertonian Calvinism, pp. 47-48
Just One Sacramental
“There are two sacraments, true, there is is only one sacramental. The world is that sacramental, and everything in it. Grace is everywhere and gets into everything. Faith can dig it out of anything. The grandeur of God can flame out from anything, like the shining from shook foil.”
Chestertonian Calvinism, p. 40.
CT and a Pandemic Amnesty
Introduction: Echoing a piece from The Atlantic last fall, Christianity Today has published an appeal to evangelicals, asking them to extend grace to one another over the hard decisions that were made during the COVID emergency. Now that the state of emergency is over and done, we should be able to look back, reflect on …
Beer and Bacon Too
“He rose from the dead in this world in order to redeem everything about it, beer and bacon included.”
Chestertonian Calvinism, p. 39
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Letters in June Rhyme With Moon
So, due to the fact that I was off on vacation for some time, the mound of letters to go through got a bit bigger, and the time available for going through them is the same. That means the selection ...
Avoiding the Snob Option
“At the end of the day, refined hedonism just creates snobs. Sure, they don’t find their pleasures in carousing, snorting cocaine, chasing skirts, and whatnot, but rather in taking a stroll through a miniature Japanese garden on a pleasant summer evening, in order to contemplate geometric proofs and chess moves of a higher order. And they are insufferable.”
Chestertonian Calvinism, p. 39
If All I Had Was Rocks . . .
Introduction : Why are there no climate change protests in China? The answer is pretty easy when you think about it for a moment or two. They are unnecessary there because China is already communist. Why are there no Black Lives Matters marches in China? Because they are already communist. Why is their society not riven …
Fighting Like a True Man
Chesterton “fought unbelief effectively, but he always fought like a cavalier and never like a thug with a wart on his nose.”
Chestertonian Calvinism, p. 35