Theology That Bites Back
This category contains the resources that I have found useful in my personal and professional life. Admittedly, it is an eclectic list. It contains everything from quotes and books that I like to podcasts, videos, and slideshows.
Introduction: The Christian faith rose to preeminence in the Roman world in the face of unrelenting hostility from the state—three centuries of that hostility. Unlike other faiths, which came to dominate their respective regions with the help of the sword, the Christian faith didn’t have that kind of help. It is consequently easy for Christians …
It is not enough for us to be against woke, or DEI, or social justice, or whatever new term our lizard overlords have decided to foist upon us. We must be hostile to all such verbal iterations, of course, but we must fight, as Chesterton put it, not simply because we hate what is in …
Update and correction: I am informed by a reader that James Lindsay has recently repudiated atheism, and is now considering himself an agnostic. That affects my second paragraph, so please factor that ...
Good Friday 2025: Pontius Pilate, a Roman governor and political figure, was no doubt acquainted with palace intrigues, court machinations, and the striving ache that suffuses all of it. It is ...
Well, to be honest, they aren’t exactly pirate ships, which would not be very Christian. They are more like privateers, operating with letters of marque and reprisal. But let us not get distracted from the main point. Greyfriars Hall has been operating for some twenty plus years now, graduating its first alum in 2004—which meant …
If you are a word geek, as I am afraid that I am, you like to read books written by word geeks. This happened to me again recently, and I thought I should tell you about it. This book is by John McWhorter, a professor at Columbia, and is called Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue. As …
Introduction: We see in Scripture that there are three distinct governments among men that were established by God directly. The first was the government of the family when God presented our first ...
If you are a teacher, and you have your wits about you, you might want to consider attending the Logos Teacher Training Conference this summer. This is our 30th year of operating. The conference is June 25-26, and with a pre-conference on the. 24th. I have the privilege of speaking there, and will be joined …
Introduction: What I would like to do here, weather permitting, is to explain how online immune systems should work, and how they contribute to the spiritual protection of the local body of saints. ...
Thesis #1: The question of head coverings in Corinth cannot be handled simplistically. The apostle Peter says that there are some things in Paul’s letters that are difficult to understand (2 Pet. 3:16). So our first task is to come to grips with the fact that his teaching on head coverings is among them. Some …
