Theology That Bites Back
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This post originally ran February 13, 2017. Mr. Vice-President, I am writing you as one who has appreciated your work, and as one who has been most grateful for your presence and influence in the new administration. Your impact has not gone unnoticed, and we thank God for you. I am extraordinarily mindful of what …
This post originally ran April 11, 2016. I want to argue that the war on marriage has many fronts. And while evangelical Christians have done a decent job in resisting some of the more outlandish attacks (e.g. Obergefell), in other areas we have tended to go along with the secular flow completely. One area where acquiescence …
This post originally ran May 19, 2016. Yesterday was Labor Day, and millions of Americans celebrated it with chips and burgers, grateful for the three-day weekend, and with only a dim awareness of what the difference between Labor Day and Memorial Day might be. In short, Labor Day for most has been scrubbed free of …
This post originally ran May 25, 2016. I begin by saying that I think of the American flag with affection, respect and sorrow. I think of what it used to represent, what it ought to represent, and what it periodically still represents. The sorrow has to do with what our ruling elites are insisting that it …
This post originally ran May 10, 2010. 1. Truth is objective, ultimate, absolute, personal, alive, and triune. 2. Because of this ultimate reality, it is possible for creatures who were fashioned by this living God to know Him as the personal and ultimate truth, as well as to know lesser truths in the created world …
This post originally ran August 5, 2009. Suppose that John R. Rice, during his Sword of the Lord days, accidentally took a couple hits of acid, and prophesied wildly about what would happen down the road if women quit wearing their hair in a bun, and started wearing slacks like crazy. Suppose he got really …
Letter to the Editor: Are there any weapons that should be forbidden to the general public? What about nuclear weapons? Steve -- Doug responds: Steve, I think we have ...
“During the ‘80s, the same generation that had ‘tuned in, turned on and dropped out’ presided over the most significant resurgence of conspicuous consumption in American history. The hippies became yuppies.”
Heath and Potter, Nation of Rebels, p. 3
