Important Preliminary Note: During this year's NQN, once a week I have been posting something of a bonus from the archives. NQN started eight years ago, and that was before I started recording my ...
Burn All the Schools
The Other Direction
“We were taught to pray that the kingdom would come to earth, not that the kingdom would float off into the sky. Thy will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven. Not Thy will be done in Heaven when we get there.”
Mere Christendom, p, 240
The Last of the NQN Letters
Letter to the Editor: My question is related to your interview with Sam Harris. In that interview you both talked a lot about slavery.In your ideal Christendom, where we have God-honoring ...
God’s Resurrection Move
“The West is dead. Long live the West.”
The Challenge of Child Communion
Introduction: When Christian writers and speakers use the word challenge, it frequently refers to what they are about to do, which is to issue a mildly robust exhortation to "do a little better." ...
Like Dead Flies
“Far too many of us have lamented with the Psalmist, ‘I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree’ (Ps. 37:35). And when the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do (Ps. 11:3)? Their eyes are fat like grease, and their press secretaries lie like dead flies on a window will.”
What Cats Think
Singleness as Affliction
Introduction: For various reasons and by various means, the teaching that singleness “is a gift” has got about in the Christian church. Like many other things that have got about, like your ...
Audio Reading of Post
Some Things Don’t Change
“Our problem is not globalization, for pity’s sake. Our problem is unbelief, and it is a very boring and ancient form of unbelief. We are about as unique as a pint of salt water a hundred miles off the coast of Hawaii.”
No Excuse for the Surprise
“Cultural decadence is something that has happened routinely to civilizations for millennia, and it is a sign of our cultural narcissism that we are somehow surprised by it happening to us. The surprise is not sincere; it is not honestly come by. Somebody really ought to read a book.”