Royal Insignia: Ninety Eight Readings On The Believer’s Credentials Humility, Brokenness, Nothingness, Destitution, Lowliness, Etc by Edwin F. Harvey My rating: 4 of 5 stars This book was a good selection of readings on humility, taken from a wide variety of authors. The quality therefore varied, but there was a lot of good stuff here. …
Hammering Some Cold Iron
One of the developing memes in my recent controversies is that I like to wax eloquent when writing about sovereign and efficacious grace, but that I do this because I am all about grace for the repentant abuser. Big time grace for the victim, not so much. This is a charge that is wildly, uproariously, …
A North Korean Line Dancing Contest
About three years ago, Nancy was invited to speak at a women’s retreat in Bloomington, Indiana. We hate being separated, so I tagged along. The retreat was sponsored by a church pastored by a friend of mine, and so the thought occurred to somebody that I could also do some event while I was there. …
The Nearest Breezy Hill
Comes now some scholars with backbone, in order to point out that the Obergefail decision is a Hefty bag filled up tight with balloon juice. This is quite right, and so they go on to make practical applications, which include encouraging all concerned to consider the decision as having no application beyond the named plaintiffs …
Conflict Makes the Story
Every Saturday night at our Sabbath dinner, we have a round of catechism questions for the kids. The last question, the one I ask all of them together, is “Kids, what’s the point of the whole Bible?” The answer is “Kill the dragon, get the girl!” This was the point of the biblical story before …
A Different Kind of Deplorable Word
There are a number of ways in which all the important subjects in the world are actually all about the same thing — God and man, sin and salvation. That being the case, there should be a number of ways in which the subjects that have occupied a good deal of space on this blog …
Review: The Return of the King
The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien My rating: 5 of 5 stars Not sure how many times I have enjoyed this trilogy, starting when I was in high school. Just finished it yet again. Just magnificent. I am thinking through a companion book to What I Learned in Narnia — What I Learned …
Chumming the Water
The purpose of a judicial process is not, in the first place, to side with the victim. The point of judicial process is to determine, carefully and without jumping to conclusions, who the victim is. Once the truth is established by due process, the Bible everywhere and always sides with the victim. But we live …
Review: The Riot and the Dance: Foundational Biology
The Riot and the Dance: Foundational Biology by Gordon Wilson My rating: 5 of 5 stars I don’t usually read biology textbooks (as in, never), but I read this one because my brother Gordon wrote it. Unlike other textbooks, the kind written by a committee of soulless engineers trying to write a phone book, the …
Exiled Nigerian Princes
Of course the homo-jihadis believe in reparative therapy. They have been doing it to America for years, and it works very well. America used to be straight, and now it is . . . very bent. In a recent display of their reparative therapy techniques, protesters have shown up to a conference on counseling held …