Theology That Bites Back
The main category for book reviews and cultural interaction.
Introduction: So this next chapter by Campbell is kind of long, so I am not going to tackle it all in one go. The territory to be covered this time around will simply be pp. 134-152—that should ...
I would like to thank Jeff Durbin and Bradley Pierce for what I thought was a respectful and fruitful debate. Most of it was ex temp, but my opening statement is below. Opening Statement “Civil magistrates should reject regulatory Pro-Life legislative strategies as biblically forbidden, morally compromised, and practically counterproductive.” I want to begin by …
“You cannot build a federal system when the component parts belong to different civilizations.”
“That self-awareness really was exceptional. But we have now lost anything resembling such humility, and have replaced it with Ozymandian pride, and are the laughing stock of the angels crammed into the balcony of the celestial matinee, who have seen then empires rise and fall, and it is not even lunch yet.”‘
Introduction: So a situation was created a short while ago when somebody leaked texts from a group chat of Young Republican up-and-comers from various states around the country, and that chat ...
“The founding of our nation really was exceptional, because the men who drafted our Constitution knew that American politicians, taking one thing with another, would be every bit as sleazy as the same class of men from any other clime.”
Letter to the Editor: Re: post on letter to Donald Trump; do you think that God extends His grace to anyone, regardless of how evil they have lived, if they humble themselves and ask ...
“So the American War for Independence was strictly speaking a war of independence—an attempt to recognize the ocean.”
Introduction: In one sense, this chapter of Campbell's is inoffensive in that it is chock full of Christian advice and counsel. In another sense, that is one of the most offensive things about ...
“These culture wars have been with us from the very foundation of our nation. They are not something new that erupted when the first hippies started to disrupt Berkeley. From the very beginning, we have had men like Patrick Henry wanting America to take her place among the nations of Christendom. And also from the very beginning, we have had men like Thomas Paine, who wanted something much more like the French Revolution.”
