Theology That Bites Back
The main category for book reviews and cultural interaction.
I rise to a brief defense of — however odd that may seem — the suburbs. From early Levittown to the vast tracts of McMansions, the suburbs have routinely drawn the contempt of all the cool kids. It is an old story. In the hardscrabble escape from grinding poverty, the first generation that never knew …
After a thorough review of the incident, Canon Press has released a report on The Justice Primer. If you are interested, you can read that report here.
The Irish Puritans: James Ussher and the Reformation of the Church by Crawford Gribben My rating: 4 of 5 stars An enjoyable read. When it comes to the history of the Protestant tradition in Ireland, this book filled in some lacunae in my brain. If my knowledge of the Reformation were a decrepit road, Gribben …
Look. It is a commonplace among us, or ought to be, that drivers ed classes in New York teach the students to drive with their knees so that they can give other drivers the bird using both hands. At least that’s what I heard. And this relates, as I am sure you recognize, to an …
As we close in on the first actual voting in Iowa, with actual voters, now just a few weeks away, I would like to register a few cautions. I have addressed the limitations of polling before, but here want to say something about the use made of them by the chattering classes. Keep in mind …
So let us now write about pronouns. The cultural pressure is mounting, and will soon become a fiery wall of persecution. Well, it won’t be that intense, but it will be intense enough to roll right over our Christian intelligentsia, whose lifetime pocket promise verse appears to be “ye have not yet resisted unto blood.” …
Soft Despotism, Democracy’s Drift: Montesquieu, Rousseau, Tocqueville, and the Modern Prospect by Paul Anthony Rahe My rating: 4 of 5 stars Rahe is fantastically learned, and writes cogently and well. The material is dense, but well worth wading through. If you want to know the historical lineage of our drift into administrative despotism, this is …
Introduction Faithful Christians are necessarily pro-life, by definition. But having an instinctive knowledge that God’s gift of life should be respected is not necessarily the same thing as being equipped to explain from the Bible why this is so, or being able to answer some of the standard objections that may be raised. 1. What …
Our Constitution concludes with a Bill of Rights, but these rights are of a particular nature — and are friends of real liberty. But within the last several generations, another set of ostensible rights, with a completely different nature, have crept into our public discourse. These rights, these entitlements, are enemies of liberty. Not only …
