So how are we to respond to this? A marriage pledge is being promoted at First Things, in which the undersigned ministers promise to cease cooperating with the civil magistrate on all things marriage. They will cease being agents for the state in weddings, and this in protest of the radical redefinition of marriage that …
Where the Analogy Actually Breaks Down
“So are we greater than pots? Fine. God is much greater than any potter” (From The Romantic Rationalist, p. 78).
Smarter Than Thou
Some people enjoy their allotted fifteen minutes of fame with modesty and decorum. Others, like Jonathan Gruber, cannonball into the deep end, having had the good grace to get most of it on video beforehand. For those whose discretionary news time was all taken up with the comet landing and the tacky shirt aftermath, here …
A Vast Aquifer of Reformation Theology
Last night Nancy and I had the privilege of attending a small open house event hosted by Wenden House at New St. Andrews. These sorts of events always get me churned up, and so I have to blog something about it in order to get it out of my system. But, rest assured, I am …
In Which We Discuss Recent Attempts to Gruber Kirk Cameron
A few weeks ago, I wrote briefly on Saving Christmas here, but I reserved a few extra things to say until after the movie released. It has now released, reviews are coming in, and lots of people have seen it. So here we are. Let me begin with a proposition to discuss: Saving Christmas is …
And the Nations Need Healing
Some friends recently released a book of essays that looks really promising. You can preview it at Google books here, or on the main Amazon page here. It is available in Kindle, and you can read more about the work of the Davenant Trust here.
Imitate More, Not Less
“Hack writers do not sub-create a world; they simply rearrange furniture in a glibly assumed (and largely unexamined) prefab world. If necessary, they make it an ‘other world’ fantasy by having two moons in the sky or by naming their protagonist something like Shambilar. But this is just moving things around on the surface. There …
The Divine Potboiler
“How could we not be storytellers? We worship God the writer, God the written, and God the reader. How could we not create? We are created in God’s image, and he creates. He created us so that we would do this. He came down into our world to show us how it is done; his …
Betting With Real Money
I want to answer two very basic questions. Let’s all wish me luck. First I want to define marriage — what is marriage anyhow? — and I want to explain why the answer to this first question is any business of the civil magistrate. The two matters are wound tightly together, as we shall see. …
Remanded to Sensitivity Camps
When two armies happen to meet, the battle is not necessarily over the terrain they are fighting on. Sometimes it is that, of course, but there are also occasions when the place where they are fighting and the place for which they are fighting are two entirely different places. The current battle is at the …