Theology That Bites Back
The main category for book reviews and cultural interaction.
Open Carry or No?: My wife and I can’t agree but it looks like you’re sporting a sidearm in your Twitter banner photo. That’s all. Jordan Jordan, I have a sidearm, but that fact cannot be ascertained from that photo. On Arrogance and Humility: Challenging and convicting, thank you, and the Holy Spirit for how …
“Autonomous and humanistic epistemology is the ultimate exercise in picking yourself up by your own coat collar, lifting yourself by your own bootstraps, or standing in a bucket in order to carry yourself upstairs” (Mere Fundamentalism, p. 82).
Introduction and a Short List: I thought to use this space to inveigh against mixed metaphors, but also thought that some of my adversaries might charge me with a hypocritical inconsistency. So let me try a few other things out on you. I believe the vast majority of professing Christian wives would be a lot …
Introduction: As we are engaged together in the endeavor of building an alternative school system, one natural question arises. Alternative to what? How can we be counter-cultural without knowing what culture we are countering, and what kind of culture we are countering with? Not surprisingly, the key to understanding this is understanding the lordship and …
Sorry to be late to this particular party, but this is one hopping circus, and it is hard to keep track of all the trapeze artists. I mean, some go this way while the others are going that way. So what happened was this. I summarize, and do so with the need for brevity in …
Alternative Education: As someone who lives a hop, skip, and jump away from the finest little school in town (yes, public) and with four little tikes needing an education, I am having a hard time picturing what a well-rounded alternative to the public school looks like for our family. Granted the Lord can provide from …
Introduction: I was going to title this piece Another French & Indian War, but when I looked it up I discovered that Sohrab Ahmari is of Iranian descent. So that didn’t work out, and let us hope that things improve a bit for me from here. And besides, this issue is not really about those …
“Everyone wants to pretend that he can postulate a magic balcony upon which a finite creature can stand, and from which vantage that finite creature can survey everything in the cosmos that has any epistemological bearing or significance at all. Part of the deal is that everyone agrees not to ask too many questions about …
