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
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 ...
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Slavery and Evangelical Timidity
Introduction: As everyone should know by now, biblical slavery is my most favoritest subject in the whole wide world. I turn to it most every chance I get, and I even recently turned in the manuscript of an honest commentary on Philemon. This is an epistle that does receive a modest amount of attention from …
Immodest Wenches
Introduction: My point in this post is not—lest someone mistake my point—to do anything so simple as decry immodest attire in women. And by the kind of immodesty I am not for the most part ...
Marriage and the Age to Come
Introduction: In working through the claims of full preterism, it is important to realize just how many other issues are connected to it. It is not just a matter of chronology or timing, and ...
A Long Train of Abuses
"Power is of an encroaching nature . . ." The Federalist Papers #48 Introduction: So let me tell you what the problem is. Once upon a time, ...
The Grace of White Privilege
Introduction: I went back and forth in my mind about the title of this little thing. It came down to intersectional privilege or white privilege, even though I was going to make the same basic ...
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That Hideous Strength at 10X
Preambulatory Note: As per our November standards, there are no qualifications in the slow-build material that follows. It is not until the last section that it goes hard, so you can jump down there ...
57 Deborahs
Introduction: It is worth mentioning at the outset that Barak was a great hero of the faith, and not a timid man at all. He was no coward, and he won a great battle on behalf of the people of Israel. ...
Wesley and Bethany
The book of Ruth is widely regarded as a biblical love story, beginning with the deep loyalty of Ruth to her mother-in-law Naomi. We heard that loyalty expressed in the Scripture reading just a moment ...