Category: Books and Culture

“We are actually talking about the blessings of Deuteronomy coming to the Gentile nations that have received the Messiah of the Jews. These Gentile nations will consequently become the head, and not the tail, and Paul knew that this was a strategy that would actually work on his people. Carping envy from Gentiles only reinforces Jewish unbelief. It feeds and nourishes Jewish unbelief. It is a central complicating part of the problem of Jewish unbelief.”

American Milk and Honey, pp. 17-18

“Now if the dogma of egalitarianism has you by the throat, when confronted with hard statistics like this, you only explanation is that the Jews must be cheating.”

American Milk and Honey, p. 14

“What antisemites want to do is point to the outsized Jewish involvement in things that really are nefarious, or in things considered by them to be nefarious. What they overlook is outsized Jewish involvement in things that are helpful, wholesome, and good.”

American Milk and Honey, p. 12

“This is why some conservatives need to stop eating their anger porridge every morning . . . for those who have been around the kind of things I write, you will know that I believe we are supposed to have enemies. And I also believe that it is most necessary that we fight them. At the same time, and this cannot be emphasized too much, we are under the strictest of orders to love our enemies (Matt. 5:44; Luke 6:27,35). Love is not inconsistent with a vigorous polemic. It is not inconsistent with prophetic rhetoric. It is inconsistent with scurrilous abuse.”

American Milk and Honey, pp. 10-11

“It is hard to see straight and see red at the same time.”

American Milk and Honey, p. 9