Theology That Bites Back
The main category for book reviews and cultural interaction.
I have noticed that I have been asked more questions about the 19th Amendment over the last year or so than I had ever been asked in all of my life prior. There is of course some sort of strategy behind all the questions, which is usually aimed at discrediting our larger project, and so …
“But Paul doesn’t tell us to fight dirty jokes with clean jokes, lame or not. He says to fight dirty jokes with contentment and gratitude.”
No Such Thing as Bad Words, p. 66
“All of this is one of the reasons why more than a few readers constantly assume that I am always making fun of them. This is because they belong to a different tradition, that, say, of stuffing all the shirts, and they have trouble distinguishing a man who is making fun from a man who is just having fun.”
No Such Thing as Bad Words, p. 57
“Before claiming the right to speak like Ezekiel, can we at least agree that Ezekiel was Ezekiel? He, at any rate, rebuked the geopolitical lusts of Jerusalem, by saying that they yearned for Babylonians who were hung like donkeys, and who ejaculated like horses.”
No Such Thing as Bad Words, p. 53
Dear Ehud, Thanks for the email, and for the follow-up phone conversation. I think I have a good grasp of your questions now, and of your dilemma, and hope that I can be of some help. I am thankful that your friend Dawson recommended that you contact me—Dawson’s a great one. If you don’t mind, …
“If someone is caught up in an immoral lifestyle, should we seek to help them? Well, of course, but in the same way we would want to help someone out if they had fallen into a sewage lagoon. Gingerly.”
No Such Thing as Bad Words, p. 49
Letter to the Editor: I just finished watching your debate with Joe Heschmeyer on Sola Scriptura and had a question about Zechariah.In Joe's cross-examination of you (around the 1:33:40 mark), ...
“I used the full text of the n-word just now because it is one of the words that is being used as an ideological slug, as evidenced by its banishment from real literature and its mandatory inclusion in rap music.”
No Such Thing as Bad Words, p. 45
