For a few years now one of my side hobbies has been that of defending and/or explaining The Pilgrim’s Progress. For various reasons, modern Christians have taken it into their heads to feel very superior to it, I can’t really explain why. Our generation has a very cordial dislike of allegory, but the medievals were …
Challenging a Young Man’s Ten Assumptions
This is a rough outline of remarks I gave to the young men of New St. Andrews. Those of you who have been here for a while know that we strive to live in community in a way that cultivates a garden of grace. We know that law doesn’t have the power to enable you …
Getting Feet Under the Table
“This is all glorious, but let’s make it practical — let’s get our feet under the table. How does all this apply to marriage? Remember, first ‘male and female created he them,’ and then, in that particular context, God blessed, charged, and fed them. And in this biblical context, we need to realize that if …
The Hamfisted Jackboot
So the Supreme Court of New Mexico has determined that a wedding photographer does not have the right to decline a job shooting a homosexual wedding ceremony. This is obviously a hamfisted jackboot, to coin a phrase, but there are a few nuances that we believers have to work through. Because we have refused to …
Other Than That, Everything’s Normal
It has been a while since we have discussed national security issues. I walked away from the topic so that all parties concerned might have a chance to calm down. But Bradley Manning was just sentenced to thirty years plus, and his big announcement right afterwards was that he wanted to start the Chelsea hormone …
Especially When There Are Cheesy Potatoes
“The family that eats together stays together” (For a Glory and a Covering, p. 127).
A Word Fitly Spoken
“Words are not abstract entities with an ethereal life of their own in Dictionary Heaven . . . The glory of words is therefore revealed when they are enfleshed and particularized” (For a Glory and a Covering, p. 122).
Strewing Reformation Out of a Hat
Carl Trueman has been kind enough to issue a clarification and a quasi-challenge, which is better, I suppose, than a queasy challenge. First his clarification: “I do have a problem with the term ‘Christian worldview’ because it is vague to the point of being philosophically useless even as it has proved rhetorically and politically useful.” …
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“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) The Basket Case Chronicles #125 “For if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn: but if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered” (1 Cor. 11:6). Without coming to any final …
Like Coriander Seed
“That kind of anger is like manna. Even if it is good, it goes bad overnight if you try to keep it” (Evangellyfish, p. 224).