The New Testament by Richmond Lattimore My rating: 5 of 5 stars I have read through this translation once or twice before. It is by Richmond Lattimore, the noted classicist, and is quite good. This time through I read it aloud with Nancy in our morning ingestion of both kinds of caffeine. View all my …
Totalitolerance
There are two kinds of tolerant societies. The first is one which contains the principles of liberty within its framework of foundational values, and the second is a society in transition, flipping from one set of intolerances to another set. During the switch, during the transition, demands for tolerance are the battering ram used against …
Pretty Sure It Is Not You
Flannery O’Conner wrote that everything that rises must converge, but this must also be said of everything that is circling the drain. The shared worldview of our chattering classes appears to me to be nothing more than a vast epistemic sinkhole. This is the kind of thing that could make Turretin exclaim, were he present …
Got Confused About His Tickets to the Philharmonic
25th Anniversary of SRV’s Death
To commemorate the 25th anniversary of Stevie Ray Vaughn’s passing, I thought I should post this video of Little Wing done by the Logos Dads Band. Clint Hughes is playing lead, Tom Miller is on drums, and Jay Niemeyer on bass. https://youtu.be/YHRAIedbkxQ
In Fact, Let’s Chain the Gates
“Secular modernity is the great rust-belt god-factory, and we are long past the time for lay-offs” (Rules for Reformers, p. 201).
A Coalition of Dust Bunnies
If you have a moment, you might want take a look at this video, starting at about the 45 minute mark. In the course of a panel discussion at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, a point I had made about the American and Confederate flags came up. My guess is the point they were likely dealing …
50 Livers a Week
The eighth video is now out. The entire thing takes place over lunch — over one of the most cold-hearted meals you will ever witness. Take note of the academics who are dismissed because they want to suppress within their own consciences what it is they are doing. But this means that Cate Dyer, the …
Their High Altar
There is quite a dramatic difference between “pardon me” and “forgive me.” We say the first, for example, in cases of inadvertent error, as when we bump into someone accidentally. We need to say the latter when we knew what we were doing, did it on purpose, knowing full well that we ought not to …
If the Day of Judgment Had a Little Brother
In one sense, of course, nothing can compare to the great Day of the Lord. Nothing compares to it, and yet Scripture repeatedly compares things to it. But the Bible does this in such a way as to show that nothing can compare, which is what gives the comparisons such force. “The high places also …