[John 8:39,41,43-44] “They were blue star covenant members, these men, and all their sacramental papers were in order. The only problem was that despite everything, they still had the wrong father. They were therefore, by definition, unregenerate” (Against the Church, p. 122).
Grape Twizzle
Eric Hoffer once noted the trajectory of institutions — first a movement, then a business, and finally a racket. As it happens, higher education in North America is deep into the racket phase. They have perfected the process of extracting money from the great American sap, whose resources appear to be limitless. The extractors have …
A New Upstream
“No, regeneration occurs when someone receives a father transplant . . . All the questions of regeneration are foundationally questions of relationship — who’s your daddy?” (Against the Church, pp. 120, 122).
Saved By the Bell
I didn’t want to read Piketty’s book Capital, and probably wouldn’t have, but now comes a development that removes every trace of all my guilt and shame. I didn’t want to read it because he believes in way-progressive tax rates, which is grabby, grabby, grabby, and grabby, grabby, grabby is contrary to the spirit of …
Front Yard Narnia
Just fooling around a bit with stuff. This is a snap shot I took out our front door a couple years ago, and which I just ran through a phone app called Waterlogue. Kind of fun.
The Whites of Their Thighs
An essential part of a pastor’s duty is to fight heresy. But it is not an essential part of his duty to screech at it in such a fashion as to make all the heretics bless their false god for having given them such an incompetent adversary. Some shepherds fight so listlessly or apologetically that …
The One Who Relates
“There are two errors to avoid here. One is to assume that each individual as such is self-contained and is provided with a hard shell casing . . . The other error is to think that the self is nothing more than a ganglion of relationships, with no ‘hard atoms’ of individuals between whom such …
Jabba the Catt
In a sinful and fallen world, any blessing can be abused. The temptation to lord it over others is a constant one, and the human heart will use whatever materials are ready to hand — intelligence, looks, education, money, age, strength, and so on. This means that inequity in the distribution of wealth does present …
On Not Leaving Out the Whole Point
“A denial of the need for a foundational heart change is therefore messing with the narratival arc of the whole story” (Against the Church, p. 117).
A Father Transplant
“Regeneration means becoming the seed of another — ultimately, starting with one family tree and then acquiring a different one. My father used to be Adam and now he is the second Adam. My father used to be the devil and now he is Abraham . . . Rebirth entails having been in existence already, …