The average reader of this blog no doubt knows already what the proprietor — putting myself quaintly in the third person — thinks of Obamacare. He thinks it is a dog’s breakfast for millions of dogs. He thinks it is a smoking heap of legislative slag. He thinks it is a misbegotten travesty, a landfill …
More Than the Sum of Parts
“The church is nothing without individual conversions, but the church is not nothing but individual conversions” (Against the Church, p. 47).
To Obligate Belief
The classic beginning of Calvin’s Institutes rightly assumes that it is not possible to know God without knowledge of ourselves. Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God. But it runs the other direction as well. It “not easy to discern” which knowledge precedes and brings forth the other. They are interdependent. “Accordingly, …
Why Nature Is Necessary
Let’s clear a few things out in the first paragraph. Nature is nature, which seems obvious enough, but less obvious is that nature has a nature. The grain of the natural order runs in a particular way. It is not amorphous goo that can be shaped by any volunteer demiurge that happens by. It is …
Making Bricks and Mortar Stronger
One of the exciting things that Logos Online is doing is creating video classes that can serve bricks and mortar schools. The online revolution as an educational resource is not just for home-schoolers. A day school can supplement the curriculum this way as well. Click here for a video clip sampler. Logos Online School …
A Really Cool Tradition Actually
“The central tradition that must be passed on to our children, and their children after them, is the long and honored evangelical tradition of rising from the dead” (Against the Church, p. 43).
What Life Does
“Liturgy without life is like putting makeup on a corpse. Doctrine without this same life is like spelling everything right on the tombstone” (Against the Church, p. 42).
Aluminum Deniers
A couple of posts ago, I said that limited government was absolutely dependent upon public virtue. Here’s why. It all goes back to Burke’s “little platoons.” Raw individualism is not the opposite of the collective. It is what makes the collective possible. The collective likes it. The Hive can handle a pothead bee. The collective …
Boys of Blur
What could be better than a novel releasing in just a few weeks, involving a Grendel story and some young boys, and football, and Florida? And ancient secrets? Well, not much actually.
Sanctuary and Parish
I have written before on the ideal relationship of church and kingdom, comparing it to the church at the center of town, and life in the kingdom fanning out into the parish from that center. Word and sacrament are at the center, and they shape and form the lives of believers outside the sanctuary, but …