Theology That Bites Back
The main category for book reviews and cultural interaction.
Introduction: So I have a few things that need to be said about me and the Talmud. Be sure to give me a minute to get warmed up. But first, in order for you to understand what I am going to say, ...
We are happy to announce that the Lord has supplied us with a pastor for our work at Christ Church D.C. Brooks Potteiger and his wife Laura will be moving to Babylon this summer, with their family, ...
“Something is transfat, for example, when a baby carrot identifies as salty grease on the inside.”
Mines of Difficulty, p. 41
“And remember there are also times when the two kinds of wills intersect. When Jesus died on the cross, it was the will of God (Luke 22:42; Acts 4:26-28) even though it was accomplished by wicked hands (Acts 2:23). The violation of God’s preceptive will by Judas, Herod, Pontius Pilate, and the Sanhedrin was the instrument God used to accomplish His decretive will. We must always remember that God is God, and we are not.”
Mines of Difficulty, p. 40
“Catechized by our digital world, we think we have conquered distance when we really haven’t. Our letters have gotten much more sophisticated than they were in Paul’s day, but our ‘face-to-face’ communication is not really the equivalent of being there. Our texting, and Zoom meetings, and online sermons, and POD books, and blogs, and phone calls, are just souped-up letters. They are not an adequate replacement for in-person community. Paul would have used them all, but he still would have yearned to be with the Thessalonians, in the same room, breathing the same air, and not through a mask either.”
Mines of Difficulty, p. 36
Introduction: So we have come to the conclusion of our review of Disarming Leviathan, Caleb Campbell's call to evangelize Christian nationalists. We have said quite a few things over the course of ...
“So the diamonds of the promise can only be found in the mines of difficulty—and some of those mines go very deep. But there are other mine shafts that are filled with nothing but useless rocks, and many thousands have spent their lives down in those holes.”
Mines of Difficulty, p. 32
Letter to the Editor: You mentioned in your wedding homily that, unlike humans, animals were made male and female at the same time. This runs completely contrary to a poem I recently wrote ...
“We glory in tribulations, not because we are masochistic, but because we know that the rocky pathway winds up to the great mountaintop city. Still, we somethings look at the immediate landscape, which can be pretty grim, instead of looking at what is really happening. We look at how hard the path is, instead of where the hard path goes.”
Mines of Difficulty, pp. 30-31
