“To pick up a brush with a claim you can reproduce what happened is to deny what happened” (Papa Don’t Pope, pp. 99-100).
Not Surprisingly, Letters
The Head Hohn Cho (and Related): Re: “A Very Basic Question”: I’m sure you don’t want these comments to become a battleground for the current controversy, but I thought I might comment on the apparent ongoing double standard, which, as far as I’ve read on the Team Pyro blog, has still not been addressed. In …
Identifying Where the Problem Is
“Those who object to portraits of Jesus should not have various Christological heresies assigned to them. It is as if a ham-fisted painter tried a portrait of my best friend, and I complained the painting had no soul. The painter could not reply that I was saying my friend had no soul. But we are …
On Loving Her, On Respecting Him
Dear Allen and Carol, I am writing both of you together because I believe we need to tie this up into one bundle. Carol, you have been corresponding with Nancy for a number of weeks now, and Allen, you and I have been doing the same. Nancy and I have spent a good bit of …
A Gent Named Hohn Cho
So I need to respond very briefly to this rejoinder from Hohn Cho. I have three basic points, rising in order of importance. First, in that rejoinder, he referred to himself as “a gent named Hohn Cho,” quoting how I had referred to him in my earlier post. I also referred to him throughout as …
A Very Basic Question
In the aftermath of the report on sex abuse in the Houston Chronicle, it seems that the Southern Baptist Convention is cleaning house. If you read through this article at Christianity Today, it appears that many of the reforms they are undertaking are common sense. It appears that way to me, at any rate. No …
And So Others Must Pick Up the Slack
That Poor Cafeteria Lady
I step away from my computer for a minute, and what happens? So a gent named Hohn Cho at Pyromaniacs has taken me to task for missing the point on sexual abuse. You can read all of what he has to say here. I will be responding to just some of what he had to …
On How to Say “Pound Sand” in Latin
In Monday’s post, the one on Al Mohler’s apology regarding CJ Mahaney, I made a comment that I would like to develop a bit more. I said this: “One of the hardest things in the world for human pride to do is to seek forgiveness when you have done genuine wrong. This is why it …
In An Especially Pernicious Form
“We know this because when Paul discusses the golden calf incident, he calls this worship of YHWH idolatry . . . (1 Cor. 10:7-8). So the apostle Paul condemns a certain form of YHWH worship as idolatry. What? Because of the presence of the calf, not because of the absence of an invocation of YHWH. …