Theology That Bites Back
The main category for book reviews and cultural interaction.
Introduction: Darryl Hart wrote an article about Christian nationalism, and it is replete with true observations about this and that, and yet somehow assumed a stance that sought to remain well ...
We live in an egalitarian era, a time of great impudence, when our surrounding culture wants to flatten everything. This is done in the name of lifting up the lowly and oppressed, but like all humanistic devices, it actually winds up tearing down instead of lifting up. If you hate the inequality between rich and …
“I can illustrate the Creator-creature divide on the blackboard, but I cannot do the physics involved and show my work. If I could do that, I wouldn’t be on this side of that divide.”
“It really is Dionysus or the Crucified. And Dionysus is not just the god of the endless party—sex, drugs, and rock and roll—he is also the god of random dismemberment. In the sixties, we were urged many times (in a Dionysian vein) to ‘make love, not war.’ It turns out that the slogan actually means ‘make love, then war.’”
“Those who feast on accusations will eventually be eaten by them. This won’t necessarily happen tomorrow. You can run on for a long time.”
“Accusation is holy law poured through the filter of a tiny and defiled soul. Justice is holy law unfiltered. Love is holy law poured out on the only sinless man, broken on a tree. And why was He willing to be broken there? He did it so a world full of accusers could become a world full of former accusers.”
Letter to the Editor: Is it wise or even right for Christians to be cremated? I have heard Christians from both camps with the general arguments for cremation of being "good stewards" financially, ...
“The right kind of self-accusation is evangelical repentance.”
Introduction: There are two ways to approach this kind of thing. One is to lay out your premises, and slowly work up to your conclusion, showing your work as you go. People can then struggle ...
