As I announced earlier, Reformation Day — happy Reformation Day, by the way — is the release date for Brother Down’s latest album, “Old Paths New Feet.” And here we are, right on schedule. Digital downloads are now available in various places, but let me link you to iTunes and to Amazon. If you go …
Just One More Thing . . .
Tim Bayly passed on this joke over at his place: Two aged orthodox Episcopal priests knelt side-by-side in the trendy new diocesan cathedral, waiting for their bishop’s Easter service to begin. It commenced with a lonely, eerie wisp of Tibetan bells wafting through the rafters. Then a chorus of plucked hand-harps took up the icy …
The Bozo Over at Mablog
Over at Religion News Service, Jonathan Merritt has decided that a web brawl with me might make for some good click fodder. This post, in which he picks a fight with me, concludes with a stirring reminder that the apostle Paul requires that Christian leaders must not be should not be “quarrelsome,” but rather “peacemakers, …
The Emperor Has No Clothes. Turns Out He’s a Girl.
Next time you are in SeaTac airport, C concourse, and you are in need of a jar, you can go out to the far end and take a look at this. The jeweler involved in this outrage is clearly brim full of hate. Now that we have “achieved” marriage “equality,” just slam the door shut …
Matinee Prices
Our armed forces personnel, living as they do in an environment run 24-7 by the government, have some very colorful ways of describing that state of affairs that only a government-run feedback loop can create, and which is perhaps symbolized best by a five-spiral crash. The mildest of these is the acronym snafu, and we …
The Divine Wind and the Windy City
I am on my way home from Dayton, where I had the pleasure of speaking at a conference hosted by Covenant Presbyterian (OPC). The other speaker was David Van Drunen, a gracious Christian gentleman, who provided fruitful interaction. This post is intended to help address some of the questions that came up between and after …
A Prescription for Grief
In my reading this morning, I noticed a striking contrast between the beginning of the tenth chapter of Isaiah and the first few verses of the eleventh. “Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed; To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right …
You Have to Think It Is What You Think It Is
I want to take a minute to follow up on a couple of points that have been raised in response to my Strange Fire post. These are issues that interest me, and they have broad epistemological ramifications. The first issue was raised in the comments to my post, and went this way: “Your story about …
Lord of the Secular
In order to understand the meaning of our life together in public, we have to come to grips with a series of distinctions. This is something that Americans used to understand very well, so much so that it is still deep in our DNA. But decades of progressivist propaganda — ladled over the tops of …
Clean Up to His Neck
In Washington these days, in order to get anything done, you have to go along to get along, roll a few logs, scratch a few backs, and trade a few horses. But then, in order to get anything worthwhile done, you have to make everybody who matters angry. This is precisely what Ted Cruz has …