If you would, I would like to ask you to bear with one more update on The Gospel Coalition issue I posted on twice yesterday, here and here. Denny Burk has written helpfully here on the whole thing, and I heartily commend his piece. Denny has read the entire book the article was excerpted from, …
On Funding Real Resistance
I am fond of saying that in order to fight a culture war, you need to have a culture. Tank warfare cannot be fought without tanks, and naval warfare requires ships. A real culture war requires real cultures. This is why we are laboring to restore a classical and Christian approach to higher education. We …
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Multiple Women in One Day Attracted
Not surprisingly, my post about Ed Shaw’s book excerpt could use some updating. My original post is here. The article I am critiquing is here. Justin Taylor tweeted out two positive reviews of the book. One was by Tim Challies here. The other was a review by the Gospel Coalition here. In this last review, …
On Walking Through Church History Backwards
“Why would the time of anticipation of salvation be so liturgically celebratory, while the times of fulfilled salvation be so liturgically glum”? (God Rest Ye Merry, p. 83).
Semi-Gloss Obfuscation
I am afraid that The Gospel Coalition has not only given away the store, but also the entire inventory from three whole warehouses on top of that. The article is here. The upshot of the article is that Christian parents should care about whether or not their children grow up to be godly, and that …
When Preaching the Gospel Isn’t Preaching the Gospel
As the diameter of our cultural sinkhole continues to widen, a few words are necessary for those Christians who want to check out of the SQCW — scare-quoted culture wars. Why all this emphasis on the sins of those worshiping the great god Orgasm? Why are conservative Christians so obsessed with sex? This charge stings …
If the Season is Penitential, You Are Doing It Wrong
“Traditionally, both Lent and Advent are penitential seasons — not times of overflowing celebrations. This is not something we have sought to cultivate at all, even though we do observe a basic church calendar, made up of what the Reformers called the five evangelical feast days. Our reluctance to adopt this kind of penitential approach …
One Way or the Other
“We will define our time by some system. The year is an inescapable year. Who is the Lord over it? How do we mark our days? Because we live in time, the rhythms of that time will either be Christian or not . . . Christians must define the year in an explicitly Christian way, …
The Dutch Have Taken Holland
I noticed the other day — as who could not? — that our president was gathered with a bunch of world leaders in Paris, in order to deliver a solemn warning to the world. This message, brought to us by our global elites, was that we should let our global elites intervene to save us …