“When someone is spiraling toward the darkness, the light doesn’t get any better as he goes. This is happening to them because they can’t see” (Rules, p. 126).
With Maggots Under Their Tongues
My friend Peter Leithart thinks the “most promising, and most peaceable” way out of our current marriage law impasse is a bill currently making its way through the Alabama legislature. “SB377 would remove the duty of confirming marriages from county probate judges and allow marriages to be recorded by the state after filing a simple …
A Reservoir of Blood Guilt
“According to Scripture, blood is something that returns to those who shed it. It also returns to the land where it was shed. And our vast reservoir of guilt is larger and deeper than it has ever been. The only blood that does not return with compounded guilt is the blood of Jesus” (Rules, p. …
Review: Descent Into Hell
Descent Into Hell by Charles Williams My rating: 4 of 5 stars I read this book once way back in the day, in my teens or twenties sometime. It was vivid, and I remembered details of the book, and other details from Williams’ other novel. That said, I thought that Williams was a gifted weirdo. …
Arms Full of Justice Swag
In light of the recent events in Baltimore, everyone wants to have an honest conversation about race. The difficulty is that in this honest conversation about race, nobody is allowed to say anything that is true. We have gotten to the point where the simple truth is inflammatory. Now the obvious truth should be about …
Speaking of Hillary . . .
Book of the Month/May 2015
A Small Cup of Light: A Drink in the Desert by Ben Palpant My rating: 5 of 5 stars This is simply a superb book. It is beautifully written, theologically rigorous, elegantly typeset, and carefully designed. Every page was easy to look at and equally easy to turn. This is book for anyone dealing with …
Long Gone
“It is not possible to build a culture around a denial of God-given standards, and then arbitrarily reintroduce those standards at your convenience, whenever you need a word like evil to describe what has just happened. Those words cannot just be whistled up from the place where we exiled them. If we have banished them, …
A Dinghy Full of Two-Kingdom Theologians
When you write things that are kind of “out there,” as I have sometimes done, you do have to explain different aspects of the situation from time to time. Consider this is one such attempt. First, let’s deal with the optical illusion of “out there.” The situation was first created when a bunch of us …