Theology That Bites Back
The main category for book reviews and cultural interaction.
Fattest Snake Dept.: Be careful Pastor Doug, you keep pointing this stuff out, people might actually start believing this gospel thing! My wife has a very dark past and once asked me, what will she say to our son if he wants to know more about her childhood and history? She was very concerned about …
“The right kind of hard man is tough for his wife. Soft men are tough on their wives. In the same way, hard leaders are hard for their people; soft leaders are hard on their people. As we deal with these perilous times, we need tough pastors—pastors who are tough for their congregations,not tough on …
Introduction: About a week ago, Al Mohler released a report on Southern Seminary with an accompanying letter. That letter (which has a link to the report itself) can be found here. And then also, if you want to read about the inevitable consequences of this, the utterly predictable howls of “that’s not nearly good enough, …
“The end result is that evangelical men, taking one thing with another, are gayer than a pope tweet . . . The problem we are discussing is evangelical men who do not know what gentleness is. The do not know what men are for. They do not understand how tenderness is supposed to work” (Same …
“The totalitarian left has no brakes on their agenda.They have no internal principle that allows them to say ‘thus far and no farther.’ And since they can’t consistently say that, they won’t say that” (Same Sex Mirage, p. 225).
A few weeks ago, I preached on the importance of the Definition of Chalcedon to a right celebration of Christmas. At the same time, Gregory Shane Morris reposted something he had written defending a Protestant use of the title “Mother of God” as applied to Mary. One of my parishioners posted a clip from my …
Justice & Injustice: I recently read A Justice Primer in conjunction with a couple weeks of leading a study of biblical justice in a Bible study. One question that came up was from my wife, who is a victim of childhood sexual abuse. By their very nature, crimes of abuse are carried out in secret. …
“I don’t think anyone should stand anywhere near the Memory Hole—it is the entry way to the Bottomless Pit . . . Like Nebuchadnezzar’s men, it is pretty easy to fall in when you are throwing things” (Same Sex Mirage, p. 224).
Introduction: One of the things revealed by our ongoing debate over the business of “same sex attraction” (SSA) is the fact that we are focusing almost entirely on the wrong issues. We are examining and measuring tremors on the surface when we should be tracking the massive shifts that are taking place with the tectonic …
