“We continue to allow our evangelical leaders to represent us with an etiolated ‘gospel-centeredness’ that keeps the gospel at the center of a tiny little box that we store in the innermost recesses of our being.”
AI and the Cream Rising
Introduction: I have already raised the central concern that we should have concerning AI, which is the problem that I have identified as AI-dolatry. AI excels at role-playing and has no scruples ...
Which Is Not a Sign of Advancing Sophistication
“Young people today are routinely tempted by things that their grandfather didn’t find out about until his second year of medical school.”
May Brings Both Flowers and Letters
I want to mention to you all that today's letters have an unusual number of Andrews. While some might maintain that you can never have too many Andrews, others might suspect that one particular Andrew ...
Less and Less Like a Judge at a Flower Show
Dear Ehud, Thanks for your reply, and all your questions were on the nose. The point you made about dealing up front with the family issue at some level made sense to me, but there is still a sense ...
Meditative Preparations
“Each one of your teenagers today is walking around with Bourbon Street in his pocket, or in her purse. And in many cases, always downloaded. You are driving off to church, and your (inexplicably sullen) teenager is in the way back, AirPods in, preparing his heart for worship by listening to “effin’ on the blim blam, n-word in the vocative plural!”
Proverbial Wisdom
And It Will Come About
“The chaos of the deep upon which the Spirit moved was brought out of nothing by the Word (Col. 1:17). The protons at the center of every atom, the position and velocity of every asteroid in the great darkness beyond Mars, and the awesome intricacy of the double helix . . . all of it, spoken into existence by the Word and sustained by that same Word . . . And that Word is always driving in the same direction—the formation of the world that will come about as a result of the Word’s authority.”
Prepare to Meet Your God
“Uninspired sermons, even when anointed by the Holy Spirit, are not to be equated with Scripture. So much should be obvious. But the prepared Reformed parishioner nevertheless comes to a preached message prepared to encounter the Word of God.”
Cherubim, Steampunk UFOs, and Regular Old UFOs
Introduction: So the president attracted some attention, which he does have some talent for doing, when he ordered the release of all the information the Federal Government had on file regarding ...