[Regarding 1 Cor. 5:9-11] “Christians were given explicit and free permission to keep company with idolaters who would worship Aphrodite by fornicating with prostitutes at her temple. But is that not a blasphemous activity? Yes, it is, and this is the Pauline strategy for attacking it.”
Theological Taste Sensations
“One of the reasons why the question of free speech in a hypothetical Christian republic is such an interesting topic is because it brings together all kinds of issues, and presents them to us in a sizzling pan, a sort of corned beef hash with eggs and onions and exotic sauces all mixed up together and piping hot. Some of the taste sensations you might not have anticipated as going well together before you first tried it, but they do go together.”
No Good Reason Why Letters Shouldn’t Be Submitted in October
Letter to the Editor: My husband has led us into a congregation that is Arminian with a baptismal regeneration theology, very weak leadership, and works righteousness abounding.Is it wrong ...
With Chubby Cheeks
“If a man feels called to the ministry, one of the first things he should do is find a sweet little thing with a stout heart, marry her, and start having fat evangelical babies. This is something the homo-catechized world will sneer at, but only because they can’t do it. All they have is gay fruitlessness.”
Virgins and Volcanoes, p. 98
It Ought to Require a Great Deal
“In times like ours, it is a standing disgrace that courage is not required to preach sermons.”
Virgins and Volcanoes, p. 98
He’s Going To . . .
The Church Led by Men is Feminine
“This means that, to be truly feminine, the Church must be obedient. And what is the Church told to do? The church is commanded to have masculine leadership . . . and that means that the Church is never more feminine than when the worship is led by men, the liturgy is conducted by men, and the one who opens the text of the sermon to read it aloud is a man.”
Virgins and Volcanoes, pp. 94-95
False Comfort
“When the church is in free fall, it doesn’t make sense to look wistfully back at the first yard or so when you were still just underneath the plane.”
Virgins and Volcanoes, p. 93
Letters Serving as a September Closer
Let me begin this letters installment with an expression of regret. Because I was out of the country last week and consequently did not post any letters, and because, upon my return, I have been ...
A Better Job Meeting the Wrong Standard
“For decades, we have been placing effeminate girly men in the pulpit, and this is one of the things that has given the progressive argument so much force. How can you demand femininity in the pulpit, and then argue with the fact that women would do a better job at that than our evangelical beta males do? And they would, too.”
Virgins and Volcanoes, p. 93