Theology That Bites Back
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Introduction: So what did I make of Turning Point’s halftime alternative? It felt the same way that it did after Seattle made their first two field goals. We are not there yet, but I really like the way this is going. Let’s take it as a good omen. My reasons for thinking this are stated …
“Sow a little envy, and reap a life of ungrateful misery. Sow a little, and reap a lot.”
Letter to the Editor: I write this in good faith seeking knowledge after recently coming across a sermon by Pastor Brooks of Pilgrim Hill. I decided to listen to it while working one day ...
“The devil . . . is a guilt farmer, and the seed is sin. Relativism is just a teaching calculated to get fools to throw their seed everywhere.”
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.”
