Because The Shack has now been made into a movie, I thought I should bump this old review of the book to the top of the pile. This was first published on 8/21/08. I had been asked by several different people what I thought of The Shack, a hot selling book by William Young. It …
Yet Another Difficulty
How Flocks Are Protected
Introduction: Scripture teaches that the flocks of God are precious, and they are precious because of what it took to purchase them. “Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own …
We’re Number One
“Did you know that we are just 5 percent of the world’s population, and yet we still consume 62 percent of the world’s priggishness?” (Food Catholic, p. 49).
The Wrong Kind
“There is a kind of religious duty that is of the flesh, for the flesh, and by the flesh” (Food Catholic, p. 48).
Book of the Month/March 2017
Our annual Grace Agenda conference is coming up later this month, and our outside guest is Mike Reeves. You can check out more details on the conference here. The fact that we were having him speak for us motivated me to read a couple of his books, Delighting in the Trinity and Rejoicing in Christ, …
The Darwinian Crack Up Will Be Televised
Thomas Kuhn gave us a good description of how scientific paradigms collapse. He wasn’t really talking about the theory of evolution, but what he said applies to that theory, and applies by the shovelful. When a new paradigm is adopted, there are a few anomalies that remain unexplained. Think of the new paradigm as a …
Which Throws Everything Off
“Yeast in the loaf doesn’t obey the established election cycle” (Empires of Dirt, p. 43).
Put Him On Rushmore Anyway
“John Knox was one of the great fathers of the American political arrangement, a fact that would have astonished him if you had attempted to explain it to him” (Empires of Dirt, p. 42).
No Goddess Can Ever Save Us
Introduction: Last week I posted something called Potiphar’s Wife, Survivor, which elicited something of an enthusiastic reaction. That reaction was registered in different places, like Facebook, Twitter, and in the comments section here, and a noticeable bit of it ran down the lines of the eff-you-Doug school of thought. Not only was it registered in …