So let me ask those of you who are interested in this kind of thing to watch this clip of an interview with N.T. Wright on the subject of homosexuality, and why he hasn’t written on it. (HT: Justin Taylor, Denny Burk) Watch it a couple times, and then read on. Let me begin by …
The New Atheism
An interview about the “new atheism” that Creation Ministries International gave me can be found here.
Hate Crimes, Sex, and the Love of God
As the lunacy of hate crimes legislation wends its way through our corridors of power, more and more wise believers are hunkering down for difficult times. Soon the denunciation of real sin from the pulpit — always unpopular with Christians — will be illegal as well. We are in that part of the movie where …
Emmanuel Southgate
As we have visited the UK a number of times over the last few years, we have gotten to know some wonderful Christian people there, a number of whom are now involved in a new evangelical church plant. The name of the church is Emmanuel Evangelical Church, located in Southgate. So if you live in …
Two Kinds of Mammon Folly
There are two kinds of folly when it comes to our attitudes toward money and the poor. The first is the only one that is usually recognized — the supercilious “let them eat cake” attitude. Scripture clearly identifies this as a very basic folly. But the other is also very common, and loves to robe …
And I Guess We Don’t
This is just to help you get your mind around it. This math is from Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack. If someone gave you a million dollars, and told you to spend it at a rate of a dollar a second, and you started last week, you would be out of money by now. If they …
Rednecks and Homosexuals
Just a few more comments on Miss California, and then I am done. Done, that is, until the next revolution on this merry-go-round that we call cultural commentary. First, one commenter in the previous thread on this had a “physician, heal thyself” question which I thought would be better to answer here. He said that …
The Liberty University Hot Bodies Convocation Service
Am I prescient or what? Here is the reception that Miss California Carrie Prejean got at the gospel music Dove awards the other night. A standing ovation. And here is a clip from a press release by the Liberty Counsel “Miss California, Carrie Prejean will be in Lynchburg today to encourage thousands of Liberty University …
Torture and the Sum of All Fears
This will be one of those posts where I am afraid that I will make no one happy. But . . . oh, well. Torture is much in the news, and so — to the law and to the testimony. Let us begin by offending those who are recycling Joseph Fletcher’s situation ethics from back …
Freedom From and Freedom To
In a recent post responding to William Cavanaugh, I said a few things about some current misapplications of the Pauline definition of freedom. True freedom is the freedom to obey God, and no one is truly, ultimately free without that freedom. Amen. A slave who has it is Christ’s freedman, and ought not to worry …