I would like to get my observations in now because as soon as anything real — anything beyond media speculation — starts happening, the massive Republican field of contenders will be much smaller, yay, and yet it will then be too late to make some of these observations. The silent primary, going on now, has …
Obstacles to Financing the Kingdom
The goal here is not to get into household finances, but rather the financing of the work of the kingdom of God. This relates to household finances at some point, obviously, but the purpose here is to address finances at the kingdom level. The amount of material on this subject in the Bible is simply …
A Treatise on the Preparation and Delivery of Sermons
Title: On the Preparation and Delivery of Sermons Author: John A. Broadus Genre: Religion Publisher: Harper Collins Release Date: September 26, 1979 Pages: 368 Fully revised edition of the classic guide to the art of homiletics incorporates recent helpful developments in the field. Very fine book. I didn’t read this edition, but rather a very …
But Sometimes You Do Find Yourself
Feminist Rape Constructs
Let us first review the facts. Mount Holyoke College is an all-women’s college that recently began admitting male students who self-identify as female. And then, in a spasm of self-righteousness, there was a successful student-led effort to get a college performance of The Vagina Monologues cancelled because that play was insufficiently sensitive to those women …
Not the Point
“Survival should never be the goal, stalemate is not the goal, absence of collision is not the goal” (Rules, p. 36).
Different Kinds of Flies
I recently wrote a piece on marriage and sexuality that included this: “12. What is the most important word in the marriage vows? In our time, because of the peculiar form our disobedience has taken, the most important word is obey. And it is the most important word whether or not it is included in …
So to Speak
“It is permissible to flee persecution, what Calvin once called getting the heck out of Dodge” (Rules, p. 35).
If You Wish, You May Count the Lumps on My Head
“In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them” (De Tocqueville, Democracy in America, p. 264)
No Time for Commies
“Some of us don’t want to give the commies the time of day — they slaughtered over 100 million people over the course of the last century, and, looking ahead to the next century, they would be happy to do it all over again. Some of us don’t think we should be the ones with …