Theology That Bites Back
The main category for book reviews and cultural interaction.
I would briefly remind you that when next month arrives, I have planned a series of blog posts that will present you with the truth in rough cut timber — no planing, no sanding, no varnish. A further explanation can be found here. So the reminder is to stay tuned.
“The modern world has seen many revolutions, from the French Revolution to the Russian, but the bloodiest of all of them has been the sexual revolution” (Same Sex Mirage, p. 141).
“The worst thing about pragmatic accommodations is that they don’t work, and the best thing about principled lost-cause stands is that they do” (Same Sex Mirage, p. 139).
“Call me old fashioned, but I still maintain there is a critical difference between climbing out of stupid and climbing into it” (Same Sex Mirage, p. 139).
Introduction: So we have a caravan consisting of thousands of refugees, heading for our southern border. What are Christians to make of this? How are we to think of such things? We do live in a world, after all, in which our Lord told the parable of the Good Samaritan . . . We also …
Enviro-Stewardship: Wow! A “toad-eating sell-out” if you claim our first vocation as gardeners implies stewardship of God’s gift of creation. Some guys get stupid around pretty girls, Pastor Wilson loses his mind when he gets around any discussion of environmental care. The careful, linear logic that I read daily at Blog & Mablog disintegrates into …
“If we can’t impose a particular morality on people who don’t share that morality, then why did you impose your morality on the bigoted restaurant owner? This is not a difficult question to understand, and I am willing to wait for an answer” (Same Sex Mirage, p. 137).
Introduction: I believe it to be generally acknowledged that I am an easy-going fellow. For example, it has been some years now, and I don’t think any one of you has seen me complaining about when we started calling babysitters caregivers. See? Go along get along. And I think that part of the reason I …
“Because we tried to eliminate the sin of racial prejudice in public spaces without grasping that central distinction [between a sin and a crime], we have ended up mandating the commission of sin in public spaces. Essaying to stamp out one sin, we have made another sin, one that is far worse than racial prejudice, …
