Flags Out Front: This brief reply has to do with the novel Flags Out Front. What an excellent concept for a novel. I have proclaimed for years that the US flag has no authority over the Christian flag to fly above it, let alone fly in the sanctuary of the Lord, as these flags represent …
Not Quitting the Day Job Yet
So a little tradition has developed — every year the night before our Grace Agenda starts, we kick things off with a classic rock concert. This is a little custom we recovered from Turretin, I think it was. At any rate, we have a lot of fun doing covers of classic songs, and here is …
Sexdollification of Western Woman
Introduction: Allow me to begin with the heads up. If you are squeamish about some of the more tawdry things that are being done on a massive scale all around us, not to mention those things being done to us, and would prefer to keep your gaze averted, at least for the time being, this …
Two or Three Witnesses/Flags Out Front
So then, it is not often you get word (all in one day) that a book of yours has gotten itself reviewed in two different magazines. Naturally enough, I took this as a sign, and hastened to my computer in order to tell you all about it. What is it a sign of? Well, these …
Not Exactly a Mennonite Potluck
“For Jesus to associate with tax collectors was not an association with the oppressed. It was an association with the despised, all right, but with despised oppressors. The tax collectors were the guys who could send a SWAT team to your house, for Pete’s sake. The people who despised the tax collectors were actually the …
Book of the Year 2017
So I like to read, and consequently I have continued to do so. The list of books I read in 2017 is now posted here. I also like to let people know when I have read a hot one, and so that is why I have a monthly feature informatively called The Book of the …
Give or Take a Few Pounds
All You Need Is . . . No, Not that Kind
“Yes, what matters fundamentally is love. But in the Bible love sometimes knocks heads together, fights serpents and dragons, silences the foe and the avenger, and casts the godless into Hell” (Empires of Dirt, p. 86).
So Smoothly
“But [Greg] Boyd simply appeals to an NPR ethic, the kind of ethic that goes down smoothly with a five dollar latte” (Empires of Dirt, p. 85).
Peasants, Pitchforks, and Pink Panthers
Introduction: The linked article here is of considerable interest, and I so recommend a careful reading of it to you. The article concerns the decline of the trained gatekeepers, and the rise of an untutored hoi polloi who do things like promote celebrity evangelicaladies like Jen Hatmaker on the one hand, and elect Donald Trump …