Theology That Bites Back
The main category for book reviews and cultural interaction.
Lord willing, and if the crik don’t rise, I want to write a short series of posts to help Christians understand the nature of the bigotry-avalanche coming our way. Not only so, but I want to explain how the success of the bigotry depends upon us sharing certain key assumptions with our confused masters of …
“Christ was born in the city of David, but was born in an impoverished household. He was born there because of the decree of the richest man in the world, and so was already ruling from the manger” (God Rest Ye Merry, p. 140).
“It is like watching Fred Astaire joining in on a line dance” (Writers to Read, p. 133).
Now let me begin by saying that we must draw a distinction between being happy about Trump and being Trump Happy. If I had thought that a scheduled surgery tomorrow was going to take my right leg off above the knee, and the doctor came in to announce a change of plans, meaning that he …
“Consider the glory of it all. ‘Glory in the highest’ is sung to dirty and despised men in a field—glory in the highest comes down to the lowest” (God Rest Ye Merry, p. 129).
“If instead of the Mongol Invasion of Europe in the thirteenth century, we could simply have had free chocolate milk for everyone involved, that would have been much nicer. But it also wasn’t one of the options. It kind of didn’t happen” (Writers to Read, p. 128).
“We forget that Rachel weeping for her slaughtered children is very much a part of the Christmas story—as much a part of it as the shepherds, and the angels, and the star, and the wise men. This is a story of the infants who were butchered by a tyrannical king, and the one infant who …
“This is the celebration of the Incarnation, when the eternal Logos of God took on a material body, which He still has. Do not, therefore, join in with the general lamentations about ‘materialism.’ This is a celebration of God taking on a material body. It is therefore a holiday that should focus on stuff. By …
Introduction: So you may consider this a quick round-up of my thoughts thus far in the aftermath of a very weird election, and my medium-warm hot take on how the presidential transition is going. But quite apart from how it might actually be going, I do have to say that I am enjoying the transition …
