Introduction: Riots recently erupted in Northern Ireland in the aftermath of an attempted beheading, when a Sudanese immigrant attacked an Irishman with a knife. Thing had already been tense ...
Belfast Blues
The Respectability Ache
“The temptation to ache for worldly respectability is, however, rampant throughout the evangelical world. Vast sections of our evangelical establishment have gone down before this alluring temptation, like dry meadow grass before a sharpened scythe.”
That Book Inside You? Good Place for It
The Winsome Standard
“The desire to be found winsome by the world puts the standard completely in the grasp of Old Slew-foot. He is the one who now determines whether or not you are being winsome. No, no. Scoot farther to the left.”
A Never Ending War
“We are at war with crapola, and are willing to use words like crapola as the occasion demands.”
Boomer Woes
Full Disclosure: I was born in 1953, and therefore have to confess that I am a boomer, right there in the middle of the pack. There were boomers ahead of me, and boomers behind me, and absolutely ...
Not to Mention the Candied Peels
“And if f-bombs were raisins, The Gospel Coalition loves to laud and celebrate movies that would be the equivalent of a five-pound fruitcake.”
Letters That Float Like Leaves Down the River
Letter to the Editor: What is the biblical understanding of forgiveness? What does it mean to forgive someone? I need clarity in this regard because I’m finding it difficult to forgive ...
Debates Where Nobody Wins
“In this kind of debate, unless everybody watches his step closely, things can get pretty stupid—like a couple of dogs, neither of them very smart, debating quantum physics. ‘No! Arf, arf!’”
That PCA Report on Christian Nationalism
Introduction: So last Thursday the first part of the PCA's study report on Christian nationalism dropped. For those who would check it out, here you go. The following is what I tweeted at the time, ...