Theology That Bites Back
Mr. Vice-President, I am writing you as one who has appreciated your work, and as one who has been most grateful for your presence and influence in the new administration. Your impact has not gone unnoticed, and we thank God for you. I am extraordinarily mindful of what you did in appearing to speak at …
Let us undertake, shall we, a study in contrasts. What I would like to do is compare the conservative desire to refrain from violating conscience in certain business transactions and the progressive desire (progressive, progressive . . . where were we going again?) to refrain from the same. As you may recall—it was quite a …
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The president caused a stir the other way when he told Bill O’Reilly that there are lots of killers out there, and that America is “not so innocent.” This was in response to a question about how Trump could work with Putin, in that, as O’Reilly objected, “he’s a killer.” This is quite true. He …
“But gratitude is not pride, and this is a nation of sinners, prone to do what sinners in this position have always done—which is to interpret blessings as rewards, to see the milk and honey as ‘best in show’ indicators. The reason this is a big deal is that the very quickest way to shut …
“They want you to make all your points to the satisfaction of those who have a vested interest in not being satisfied by them” (Food Catholic, p. 36).
Some readers may recall the periodic clashes I have had with some of Russell Moore’s public stances on how we should be best resisting the ongoing sexual revolution. At issue has been my concern that Moore was too prepared to cede ground in the realm of same sex mirage, in order to continue to fight …
So let contemplate for a moment the coming opportunity to end human abortion in America. And let us also contemplate how the opportunity for this was created by the lack of impulse control on the left. But we must begin by noticing an instinctive and characteristic difference between conservatives and progressives. That difference is this. …
“And if we should not work for food that perishes, we shouldn’t get worked up over food that perishes” (Food Catholic, p. 30).
“In my experience, those who are most ambivalent or cynical about patriotic pieties—flags, fireworks, and fun—are most likely to support the abuses of statist power when the state is attempting to become some jitney god in the lives of the citizens. But those who wave the flag at the parade and eat their hot dogs …
