Theology That Bites Back
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Preamble to My Introduction: ACCS is a decidedly Protestant organization. But as you look around the classical Christian world of education, you will notice the involvement of not a few Roman Catholic and Orthodox educators, many of whom we consider to be friends. But—friends or no friends—we remain decidedly Protestant. My task this morning is …
“Christ is the standard for every man and woman, for every boy and every girl. He is the path we must run. He is the only curriculum.”
Keep Your Kids, p. 52
Introduction: The problem of dishonesty in our work and labor is a difficult one to address because it is often the case that the first one “lied to” is the liar himself. He is dishonest ...
“Young people do not have a constitutional right to be silly.”
Keep Your Kids, p. 52
Letter to the Editor: I was wondering if you could share how your community/churches organize and execute your Psalm Sings and events in the community. Are they more or less your version ...
“Math will hurt their feelings, because math reminds everybody of the Last Judgment. The answer is right or wrong, and you can’t blow sunshine at it.”
Keep Your Kids, p. 51
Introduction: Whenever I write anything about Israel—anything whatever—I open up my Twitter feed a couple hours later only to discover a misty cloud-sourced analysis of my many and sundry ...
“So in this powder key called Jerusalem, what did Jesus do? Did Jesus come in to pour soothing oil on troubled waters? No, He went into the Temple, for crying out loud, and started flipping over tables . . . We call it the cleansing of the Temple, of course, because it is thousands of years in the past, and we read a bronze plaque about it in the Museum of Heroic Bygone Deeds. What would we call it if it had happened last week? Vandalism? Performance art? Prophecy without a permit?”
“Now can we all agree that these crowds, as warmly affectionate toward John the Baptist as they might have been, and as doggedly committed to the honor of the rabbi Jesus as they were, were people who had not taken on board the full import of what the Scriptures had required of them? I mean, had you gone to one of their rallies, who knows what kind of flags might have been there? And did their presence in the mix in any way discredit what Jesus was up to? Not even a little bit.”
