Let us first review the facts. Mount Holyoke College is an all-women’s college that recently began admitting male students who self-identify as female. And then, in a spasm of self-righteousness, there was a successful student-led effort to get a college performance of The Vagina Monologues cancelled because that play was insufficiently sensitive to those women …
Not the Point
“Survival should never be the goal, stalemate is not the goal, absence of collision is not the goal” (Rules, p. 36).
Different Kinds of Flies
I recently wrote a piece on marriage and sexuality that included this: “12. What is the most important word in the marriage vows? In our time, because of the peculiar form our disobedience has taken, the most important word is obey. And it is the most important word whether or not it is included in …
So to Speak
“It is permissible to flee persecution, what Calvin once called getting the heck out of Dodge” (Rules, p. 35).
If You Wish, You May Count the Lumps on My Head
“In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them” (De Tocqueville, Democracy in America, p. 264)
No Time for Commies
“Some of us don’t want to give the commies the time of day — they slaughtered over 100 million people over the course of the last century, and, looking ahead to the next century, they would be happy to do it all over again. Some of us don’t think we should be the ones with …
Preaching & Teaching With Imagination
Title: Preaching and Teaching with Imagination Author: Warren W. Wiersbe Genre: Religion Publisher: Baker Books Release Date: February 1, 1997 Pages: 400 No more dreary three-point sermon outlines! Wiersbe coaches preachers to creatively proclaim the living Word--so hearers experience God's truth changing their lives. This was a good book, with a lot of good points, …
The Walking Stick Problem
If you say, as Bacon once did, that knowledge is power, you will find yourself arraigned pretty quickly on charges of wanting to rape the earth. But knowledge is power, and knowledge cannot be applied in this world without exercising authoritative dominion. This axiom needs to be defended and it needs to be defended without …
A Chiastic Catechism on Biblical Sexuality
NB: This is a little something written for a forthcoming book from Canon called How to Exasperate Your Wife. Here are 25 questions, along with some suggested answers. 1. What is the first challenge of biblical masculinity? To have enough of it to be willing to articulate what it is in public. 2. Is not …