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On Not Being Mean
“But evangelicals—babes in the woods when it comes to this kind of thing—have confused the biblical requirement to not be mean with the impossible requirement to never be accused by liars of being mean. Once you accept the latter as your standard, you can always be steered, no matter how nice you are.”
Virgins and Volcanoes, p. 37
Let’s Think This Through
“If we are in the fire, and some suggests getting back in the frying pan, it is hardly to the point to suggest that this might lead to us falling into the fire.”
Demonizing for Fun and Profit
Introduction: The very first thing we should get into our heads is the fact that sauce for the goose/sauce for the gander is a basic biblical principle. The judgment with which you judge you shall ...
The Sin of Soft
“The modern evangelical church is effeminate. That is the problem. That is our besetting sin. When the apostle Paul rebuked the malakoi, the soft ones (1 Cor. 6:9), he was talking about the effeminate objects of sodomite lust. But that kind of softness can also trickle into bed with a girl. That kind of softness can remain heterosexual and can get institutionalized in the overarching directive to all faithful evangelicals, which is be nice and don’t be mean.”
Virgins and Volcanoes, p. 36
Letters to Help Us Pass the Time
Letter to the Editor: I’m probably the Christian antheysus of your philosophy. I’m a lifelong Catholic and in full communion with the Holy Father. I find your faith a perversion ...
Theocracy and Fear
“Why are we so afraid of theocracy? What might happen? Might we go on a rampage and kill sixty million babies? Yeah, that would be bad. Better not risk it. Might we set up a surveillance state, with camera clusters pointed in every direction at all the intersections? Right—theocracies are terrible like that.”
In Which Russell Moore, Mike Cosper, Clarissa Moll, and Your Humble Servant Have a Frank Exchange of Views
Introduction Perhaps you might allow me to begin by describing one of my first evangelistic endeavors. This was some time in the late fifties or early sixties, and so it was when I was just ...
True Contentment
Two Jobs
“The priests of this system have two basic jobs. The first is to keep throwing virgins into the volcano. The second is to keep up an unrelenting stream of criticism of the Christians, heaping scorn upon how we treat our virgins.”
Virgins and Volcanoes, p. 29