Introduction: The task before us is far more comprehensive than spot cleaning our cultural carpet. The West has more problems than a stubborn stain here or there. We stare at the carpet, thinking ...
To Pray for the End is to Pray for the Means
“We cannot pray for the purification of the silver, and then despair when we begin to approach the furnace that removes the dross.”
Burn All the Schools
Important Preliminary Note: During this year's NQN, once a week I have been posting something of a bonus from the archives. NQN started eight years ago, and that was before I started recording my ...
The Other Direction
“We were taught to pray that the kingdom would come to earth, not that the kingdom would float off into the sky. Thy will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven. Not Thy will be done in Heaven when we get there.”
Mere Christendom, p, 240
The Last of the NQN Letters
Letter to the Editor: My question is related to your interview with Sam Harris. In that interview you both talked a lot about slavery.In your ideal Christendom, where we have God-honoring ...
God’s Resurrection Move
“The West is dead. Long live the West.”
The Challenge of Child Communion
Introduction: When Christian writers and speakers use the word challenge, it frequently refers to what they are about to do, which is to issue a mildly robust exhortation to "do a little better." ...
Like Dead Flies
“Far too many of us have lamented with the Psalmist, ‘I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree’ (Ps. 37:35). And when the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do (Ps. 11:3)? Their eyes are fat like grease, and their press secretaries lie like dead flies on a window will.”
What Cats Think

Singleness as Affliction
Introduction: For various reasons and by various means, the teaching that singleness “is a gift” has got about in the Christian church. Like many other things that have got about, like your ...



