I would like to take just a few quick moments to answer some questions posed for complementarians by Todd Pruitt. Given how these things go, I will likely have to follow up with more comments in the future, but just for the moment I need to point out the vast discrepancy between where I am …
In Which Ted Cruz Whiffs One
Note: One comment below indicates that Cruz was responding to Carson as inaccurately represented by a reporter. So keep that in mind as you read. As I have noted before, I like Ted Cruz. His general outlook is the kind of conservatism that I want to see in the White House, and I wish him …
On Why Christian Women Are Prettier
This particular train of thought was brought to you by a comment thread a few days ago. I posted a sermon outline, Sketch of a Godly Wife, and some of the things that popped up immediately made me realize that I had to develop this thought further. I can’t really go back and cite whatever …
Review: The Two Towers
The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien My rating: 5 of 5 stars I have read this multiple times, not sure how many. But just finished it again. Wonderful. View all my reviews
Review: Perelandra
Perelandra by C.S. Lewis My rating: 4 of 5 stars Great. Also read in January of 1990. And also read in April of 2009. Also read in January of 1985. Also read in July of 1980. Listened to it again on audio in 2015. View all my reviews
Inspiration for the Campaign
And You Stay That Way
“In one sense, Heaven and Hell have the same definition. They are both places where you become what you have been becoming” (Rules for Reformers, p. 201)
Comments at the Illinois Family Institute
Last night I had the privilege of saying a few words to the IFI. My notes are below. Regular readers may recognize a few paragraphs, but the talk was for the occasion. I want to thank the Illinois Family Institute for the very kind invitation to speak to you all tonight. In fact, in these …
Principled Carve-Outs and the Other Kind
Jesus said that when we are persecuted in one city, we should flee to the next (Matt. 10:23). The apostle Peter disappeared from the book of Acts a wanted man (Acts 12:17). The apostle Paul was lowered from the city wall of Damascus in a basket (2 Cor. 11:33). If we apply this thoughtfully, we …
A Duty to Interpose
One of the things we must absolutely learn how to do better than we do is distinguish things that differ, especially things that look similar but which differ radically. We must learn to say, as Dorothy Sayers once famously said, distinguo. I distinguish. There is a profound difference between the doctrine of interposition/lesser magistrates on …