I can only take small doses at a time, but I am continuing to labor manfully away at getting through The Next Reformation by Carl Raschke. What a piece of turgid work! After telling us that Nietzsche was grossly misunderstood (fair enough) and pointing out that he was not responsible for various Third Reichian applications …
Inerrancy Is Too Weak
The problem with the doctrine of inerrancy, as many hold to it, is that it is too weak. The question, as it is usually posed, is whether or not the Bible contains errors. The liberal says that it does and the conservative says that it does not. On one level, the conservative answer is of …
An Applied Bible
Andrew’s Sandlin’s recent response to me helpfully pin-pointed the one area where I think we genuinely differ, which is in the area of scriptural applications. First, he began by thanking me for not employing satire, invective, and so on, in my response to him. He noted that such tactics in Scripture are to be employed …
Delight in Other Tastes
“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) Growing Dominion, Part 28 Part of cultural maturity is the art of learning to delight in the fact that other people delight in things that leave you cold. Of course, we must exclude from this anything that God flatly prohibits, but we must …
More on Slavery
Some of you all know that there was another outbreak of the slavery fracas at Cary Christian in North Carolina. A gentleman in that controversy wrote me some questions concerning a (biblical) position statement that Cary Christian had posted on their web site. The position paper is in bold, the gentleman’s comments and questions are …
Foundations of Marriage V
INTRODUCTION: In this season of Advent, we are preparing ourselves for a celebration of the Incarntion of the eternal Logos, in which the eternally begotten Son of God became the son of Mary, and, through her, a genuine son of Adam. We are also considering the impact of this truth on our marriages TEXT: “. …
Birds of a Feather
“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) Growing Dominion, Part 27 The dividing line between right and wrong is a thick, black one. If we were supposed to stay away from factory-processed foods, music with a back beat, bee pollen, classrooms with desks, home education, wine, beer, or spirits, then …
Paleo Spear-Dane
In a recent letter to the editor of a far away newspaper, Nick Gier wrote, “Wilson claims that he is not a neo-Confederate, but . . .” Since we are dealing with refried charges, let me serve up a helping of refried answers to charges. Here is what I said about the charge of neo-Confederacy …
Christian Books and Porn
A friend recently gave me the very thoughtful present of some gift credit at Hastings, so I toddled off to Hastings to see what I could see. (I wound up getting some blues CDs mostly.) But that is not the point. While there I noticed (again) the very large section of Christian books in the …
Slab of Humanity
Off to the left you see that I think that Zarafa Tutorials is one place you should check out, particularly if you have any children of writing age and you want to nurture them in creativity–which involves more than just grammatical competence. I recently had some fun looking at their first edition of The Dogberry …