Theology That Bites Back
The main category for book reviews and cultural interaction.
Beth Moore: I’m sure you’re aware of the most recent Beth Moore kerfuffle over on SBC Twitter. Beth has revised her already scant teaching on the topic of homosexuality to bring it into conformity with the spirit of this age, which is to say, she has entirely removed it from her lexicon and her bibliography …
Given how many institutions have been going the squish route on all matters homosexual, it is perhaps understandable that Pulpit & Pen took us to task over the fact that Andrew Klavan is speaking for our Called conference next week. Called is hosted by New St. Andrews, and is a Christian worldview conference that we …
“If we love the Church as she now is, we will love her into the Church that has been promised us” (Mere Fundamentalism, p. 105).
Introduction: Comes now the Amazon Death Star with news that they will no longer carry books by a gent named Joseph Nicolosi, the founder of what has come to be called conversion therapy. Conversion therapy or reparative therapy for minors (therapy designed to reverse homosexuality) is now illegal . . . oh, in loads of …
“The future is necessarily Christian” (Mere Fundamentalism, p. 100).
Every citizen who fears God ought to have room in his heart for both a patriotic stream and a prophetic stream. The patriotic stream is just what it sounds like, which is to say natural affection for the good things God has given us through our nation and people. The prophetic stream recognizes the ways …
“He has set immortal life loose in the world, resurrection life loose in the world, divine life loose in the world. It can be smashed, but like quicksilver it scatters everywhere. And when it has been scattered everywhere, it begins to grow and multiply from there” (Mere Fundamentalism, p. 96).
The butterfly flits on wings of gold,The June bug wings of flame,The bed bug has no wings at all,But gets there just the same. American folk song Nonsense literature has a long and storied history—I’m looking at you, Jabberwock—and then there’s Edward Lear who, had he not been a Brit, could have been a great …
“In a world filled with death and corruption, the Holy Spirit hovers over the face of the sewage lagoon, brooding on the face of the waters. And there, in the midst of all that death, He introduces life” (Mere Fundamentalism, p. 95).
