Best Practices
Words Everywhere
“The Scriptures are given to us in words, and interpretations of those words arrive packaged in words. If God can’t make Himself clear to me in the book that He wrote, how can I expect that fallible (or purportedly infallible) humans can do so . . . More about this anon, as I would have …
The Acid Test
“The only RCs and EOs worth teaming up with in any venture are the ones who don’t mind a Protestant being one” (Papa Don’t Pope, p. 179).
Let’s Have a Little Fun with Reparations, Shall We?
Wipe that smirk off your face. Reparations is a serious subject. Kamala Harris, contender for the Democratic nomination for president, has endorsed in principle the idea of reparations. So if Mitch McConnell brings reparations up for a vote in the Senate, she has promised to vote present. Wipe that smirk off your face. Speaking of …
As the Body Without the Spirit is Dead . . .
“To take the elements of bread and wine, and separate them from the sacramental action, the sacramental participles, is a mistake of the first order. It is to remove the animated thing from the animating principle, thereby killing it, and then worshiping it as though it were alive by itself” (Papa Don’t Pope, p. 175).
And Another Thing. Trump Sure Knows How to Generate Letters.
Trump and Voting: The problem with voting for any presidential candidate that has a chance of winning is encapsulated in the phrase “voting for the lesser evil.” Since when should a follower of Christ be supporting anyone who is evil? The kingdoms of this world belong to Satan and by their nature states are basically …
In the Participles
“But Jesus did not tell us to watch and adore. He told us to take and eat, take and drink. And in our obedience, Christ is with us. Christ inhabits the obedience, and the bread and wine are not obedient. Christ is in the participles, in the eating, and in the drinking” (Papa Don’t Pope, …
Trump as Chemo Man
Introduction: Now that the Mueller report has been turned in, and it does not appear that any new heads will roll, and we are witnessing a reprise of Election Night Horror with leftists sobbing, I thought that this would be a good time to present my thoughts on Trump that have been gestating for some …
Not Monolithic
“When you actually start reading in the early church fathers, one of the first things you discover is that they are all over the map, just like us” (Papa Don’t Pope, p. 170).
Which Might Explain Some Things
