Most Calvinists are Only Halfway There
“If you are Calvinist in your soteriology and historically Reformed in your ecclesiology, then you need to think Christendom is a good thing . . . If anabaptist assumptions had not carried the day, affecting virtually everybody who looks at Church-state issues, we would recognize this move [denying Christendom] as being as anachronistic as a …
Preferably Made out of Titanium
“Someone really does need to tell secularist America that her gods are genuinely pathetic. And currently, the Muslims are doing this because the Christians won’t. And the Christians who won’t do this are not so much in need of a different kind of theology as they are in need of a different kind of spine” …
Hot Take
This is just a very brief comment on the Alabama election. There will no doubt be other things to say, but it would be best to let all the pieces fall out of the sky first. The most important issue for me is not so much whether Jones was elected or Moore, but rather what …
Not Even Close
“Creating a religion of man is not the same thing as abandoning religion” (Empires of Dirt, p. 65).
Troll Tuesday
So here we are. Below are some of the letters I have received, along with my responses. Pardon our dust and all that. The comments are enabled for this post only, and so feel free to interact. Consider this Open Thread Tuesday, with perhaps the occasional Troll Tuesday. But please mind your Ps and Qs, …
Don’t Oversell It
“I give way to no one in my love for my country, my nation, and my people. But it is a nation, for pity’s sake, not a god. It is a country, a fine place to shoot off firecrackers and eat hot dogs on the Fourth. But if you want me to trot out divine …
How Then Shall We Praise or Blame?
So all eyes will be on Alabama because of the senatorial election tomorrow. And why not? 2017 has not really been gaudy enough to date, and so I think it should try to go out with a bang. For those Christians in Alabama who have a functioning conscience, and who have to decide what to …
Or Maybe Three
[Speaking of Hugh Hewitt’s idea that Ground Zero in New York is a secular sacred space] “This is the kind of political analysis that a freshman in the Eusebian School of Panegyrics might have written for his first homework assignment, late in the evening and after a couple of beers” (Empires of Dirt, p. 60).
Conservative Colleges That Don’t Conserve
So then, as Dylan said, you don’t have to be a weatherman to tell which way the wind is blowing. Progressives like to pretend that they are “the Resistance,” but the real resistance is going to have to come from people who believe the Bible, all of it. And one of the key battlegrounds with …