Introduction: Recent years have seen the rise of a pro-life abolitionism, and there are aspects of this that have been quite good. We could all use a little more impatience with some of our pro-life politicos, too many of whom have been like the constables in Penzance. “We go, we go, we go!” “Yes, but …
Psalm 101/The Eleventh Decade of Psalms
Introduction: The most likely occasion for the composition of this psalm is shortly after the death of Saul, when it looked likely that David was going to ascend the throne. This is a psalm that declares what he wanted his administration to look like—he is talking about the kind of behavior that will get a …
The Direction of Glory
“A man seeking true glory has his eye fixed on God. A man in pursuit of vainglory is given to the sidelong glance” (Mere Fundamentalism, p. 51).
To Be Expected . . .
What Is Actually Delivered
“The striving is always in the direction of Nietzsche’s Ubermensch, and it always seems to wind up as Nietzsche himself did—broken, mad, pathetic. The Ring promises us a king or an emperor with godlike powers, but delivers us Gollum” (Mere Fundamentalism, p. 44).
And What a Failure
“Sin is a glory failure” (Mere Fundamentalism, p. 42).
Same Page Summer 2019
I am writing to invite you to join a number of us on an edifying joint venture this summer. We began the Bible Reading Challenge a couple years ago, and it has enjoyed some remarkable successes thus far. According to numerous reports that we have received, it has been a transformative exercise, and this coming …
A Glorious Promise
“The attempts to create a superman have not been few. We see it in the attempt by the antediluvians to breed immortals (Gen. 6), we see it in the ravings of Nietzsche, and we see it with modern unbelievers tinkering around with the human genome. In reply, God says—God has always said—that mankind shall be …
Yet Another Sack of Mail
On the Passing of RHE: They tell us that you’re nothing but bluster and bigotry, but this is as biblical, sensitive and nuanced as anything published on the corporate websites . . . Ed Ed, thank you. It was a difficult thing to address. “My prayer is that RHE, perhaps somewhere in the course of …
Mark the Design
“God did not create two men, and so homosexuality is excluded. He did not create Adam and three women, and so polygamy is excluded. A helper suitable to Adam was not found among the beasts, and so bestiality is excluded. He did not create two women, which rules out lesbianism. All such images would be …