These are the best of times and the worst of times, to coin a phrase. For conservatives, I mean. These are the worst of times because a dedicated band of people is doing quite a demolition job on the republic, and it really takes a lot of work to get that much damage done. Impressive, …
Wordsmithy Prompt
Just a reminder that you ought — by this time, at any rate — have already signed up for the 2014 Wordsmithy workshop. In the off chance that you have not, here is a little clickity thing to help you out.
And Little Wool
I really should say something about outrage-fest that has mostly concluded over in the NBA and its environs. Clippers owner Donald Sterling got himself banned from NBA games and practices for life, and was fined 2.5 million dollars, because he managed to insinuate himself onto some audio, the playing of which audio proved to the …
Seven Theses on Submission
Part of the fallout from the Vision Forum mess has been the attempted discrediting of “patriarchy.” Since Doug Phillips definitely taught headship and submission in marriage, and since he sinned in the way he did, it is thought that the whole project should be abandoned in favor of something friendlier to women, like, say, abandoning …
Which Is Not Good
“Marginal Christianity is always tare-Christianity and not wheat-Christianity” (Against the Church, p. 89).
Just Getting a Drink
A recent jag in the feminist jihad has to do with what they are pleased to call microaggressions — what Jonah Goldberg recently worried might become nanoaggressions. So let’s talk about all that for a microbit. Conservatives will frequently make merry about this kind of fevered brow behavior, assuming that these women’s-study-center-people have utterly lost …
The Number of the Barns Doesn’t Matter
“We are invited (in numerous places in the Scriptures) to consider our earthly lives in the light of our ultimate destinations. The rich fool is not encouraged to say or think, ‘Well, I know I am lost for all eternity, but for a while there I sure had enough money to build some bigger barns!’ …
Lord of the Magazine Rack
People tend to think that worldviews are expressed in the various magazines for sale, whether Field & Stream, Good Housekeeping, or Penthouse. But the foundational worldview is actually found in the magazine rack, and the location of the cash register. If WalMart decided that Monday was Muslim Day, Tuesday Hindu Day, Wednesday Christian Day, and …
Alive or Dead
“In Christ, there are no prohibited trees. Outside HIm, they are all prohibited. That means there is only one real question to answer, and it does not involve any grace-works ratios. The question is more basic than that, and has to do with the new birth” (Against the Church, p. 86).
Both Lighting the Wrong Path
“Moralism is just a three-dollar flashlight to light the pathway to Hell. And of course, if we are guilty of the opposite error, if our lives are manifesting a lineup of dirty deeds done dirt cheap, the only real sin we are avoiding is that of hypocrisy. Overt immorality is the fifty-dollar flashlight” (Against the …