Theology That Bites Back
The main category for book reviews and cultural interaction.
Introduction: I do indeed intend to defy the schoolmarms, but you will pardon me if I take a few minutes to set the whole thing up first. In the twelfth chapter of Acts, just a few verses apart, Luke gives us two instances of the angel of the Lord striking somebody, but with very different …
My choice for this month’s book is Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance. It is, in a number of ways, a powerful and moving book. I listened to it through Audible, and as it is read by the author himself, I got an additional sense of closed rhetorical distance—like he was riding around in my truck …
“If you don’t want to go where they are going, don’t let them have control of your language. One of the most remarkable thing about our current imbroglios is how readily Christians cede control over their language to the adversary. You are being steered” (Same Sex Mirage, p. 211).
Introduction: The title comes from an old line of Ronald Reagan’s, where he said, “Socialism only works in two places: Heaven where they don’t need it and hell where they already have it.” Let that suffice for a rudimentary introduction, setting both tone and direction. So Lay the Axe at the Root: Socialism is, at root, not a math …
“The best response to microaggressions should be a good dose of microcaring” (Same Sex Mirage, p. 207).
Due to pacing problems on my part, I was not able to get everything posted that I intended to get to this November. I have three more posts to submit on this run, and so here is how I propose we do it. Tomorrow’s will be the last post in ordinary November. This is to …
So then, I began using Logos Bible Software quite a few years ago—I think the version was Logos 4, so I have been at it for at least a decade. And my memory is murky on the point, meaning that it could be even earlier than that. Anyway you cut it, I am a long …
Introduction: If you can’t say something positive, then don’t say anything at all. That’s what I always say. I mean to say, the world is so full of criticism and carping . . . why can’t we just accentuate the positive? Focus on what is good. Try to emphasize the delightful. As Paul once put …
“I do believe in rules for polemical discourse. I believe that a biblical approach to it allows us to hit hard and above the belt. But God defines for us where the belt is” (Same Sex Mirage, p. 205).
