Theology That Bites Back
The main category for book reviews and cultural interaction.
Introduction: One episode in the Narnia stories has caused no little consternation for evangelical parents as they have read to their children, and that element of the story concerns the salvation of Emeth. On another occasion, I discussed the curious fact of Susan’s absence from the heavenly regions in The Last Battle. A second curious …
“Either same-sex unions will once again be rejected by all fifty states, with homosexuality therefore returning to the closet, or, second, your decision will stand in all fifty states, and the faithful church in America will go off-grid and underground in various ways, with all that implies, or, third, the Union will come apart ” …
Introduction: Conservative believers have been outmaneuvered in the culture wars so many times that you would think we would be able to anticipate by now when it is about to happen again. As I have said many times, this culture war is actually a lexical war, a battle over control of the dictionary. And so …
There are many reasons C.S. Lewis has been a prophet for our time, but one of the central ones was his hatred of relativistic subjectivism. He did this by according right reason its proper place in the pursuit of truth, a place of final authority, and without abandoning the rich fields of the imagination. In …
Kurt Schlichter is an abrasive, profane, and very funny writer, and in this book he gives us a play-by-play breakdown of what (the hell) happened in the 2016 presidential election. If you want to understand how all the monkeys got out of all their respective cages, then this book, Militant Normals, will be a tremendous …
The Moral High Ground of Grace: Long time reader. First time writer. What a breath of fresh air THAT post was. Keep going!! Art Art, thanks, and I hope to keep going as the Lord enables. “I will say again that when debating with white racist punks, I will not apologize for Col. 3:11, which …
“It is not a coincidence that all these grotesque parades in our major cities are called ‘pride’ events. I dare say they are, but pride is no virtue, and neither is insolence, arrogance, or conceit . . . This kind of public frenzy is not just something that invites God’s wrath; rather, it is a …
“Just as a violin and bow are one instrument, and a lock and a key are one mechanism, and a pair of scissors are one tool, so also mankind created as male and female are one image” (Same Sex Mirage, pp. 245-246).
