I regularly get books sent to me in the mail, and lots of them look good to me. That means that I am glad I now own them, and look forward to the time when I might read them. But occasionally a book is sent to me that I just have to read right away. …
Why Do It Then?
The other evening our elders had a special meeting with our parishioners to go over some of the details of the recent controversies. The meeting was fantastic, but my point is not to get into all that. Rather I wanted to simply to respond more fully to one of the questions, one that went something …
Wipe It From Your Minds
The Cosmos Containing the Orchard
When it come to moral reasoning, the premises must encompass and contain the entire moral world. We are creatures, which means that our starting point must be bounded and finite, with a consistent set of moral assumptions embedded. “The ultimate ethical injunctions have always been premises, never conclusions. Kant was perfectly right on that point …
The Day Marriage Fell (Ichabod)
And so here is a music video that is accompanying our documentary, The Free Speech Apocalypse. Many thanks to Darren Doane, who shot this, along with David Shannon and other members of his team. And thanks to our Jenny Geddes assemblage this time around — Dara Heiple, Tom Miller, Jay Niemeyer, Tom Isenberg, and Clint …
Feminism in Denial
A few days ago, I tweeted this: “We have really gotten messed up by our servant-leaders, b/c we think we are to lead by serving instead of serving by leading.” Some consternation ensued, with some people liking this fine, sending it on down the twitter-road, with others thinking that it explained everything about me that …
On Planting Black Damnation
The judgments of God are organic. That is, they do not operate in a mechanical way, as though dispensed from a vending machine. But they do operate in predictable ways, ways that we should be able to anticipate. We understand seedtime and harvest, and so we should also be aware that it is not possible …
Diversity Except for That Kind! Exhibit 783
A Nine-Pound Sledge in the Freezer
As many of you know, some of the CMP videos had been blocked by a judge, but a few days ago someone — another hero — hacked the videos that had been withheld from us, and they are now available. I have embedded one of them. In the course of the video, the presenter reads …
A Greco-Roman Milieu Participle
Jory Micah has kindly taken up the challenge presented by my recent post on Love and Respect over at Desiring God. I would like to return the compliment, making me a complimentarian, and I would like to return the compliment with all my heart, making me an extreme complimentarian. I begin this way because Jory …