If there is any place where the bone-chilling ugliness of our modern world is both displayed and advanced, it is in the liturgical poverty of the modern evangelical world. And surprisingly, one of the reasons for this is the church’s embarrassment over the doctrine of creation ex nihilo. We have a real problem with this. …
Islamist Foxes and English Hens
“The British government is now in danger of falling into the same trap as the French. After the Muslim riots in France in autumn 2005, the French government, unable to regain control, went in desperation to those who had radicalized the community’s youths in the first place and begged them to restore order. The result …
Cold Snakes
“The lusts of men’s hearts are like a bed of snakes in the cold, but the heat of passion warming them causes them to crawl and hiss” (Burroughs, Irenicum, p. 184).
AlGorithms
I have opened a new category entitled Global Swarming. It has become apparent that this particular form of hysteria over global warming is going to be with us for some months yet, and I would like to say something about it from time to time. The title reflects my conviction that we are ostensibly dealing …
Kind of Makes You Proud
An Oregon man covered 193 miles in a lawn chair, powered by 105 helium balloons. HT: Dale Courtney
Evangeliberals
Of course, modern evangelicalism and liberalism are not identical. They have differing histories, traditions, customs, and so forth. As movements, they have compromised with worldliness in very different ways, and oddly enough, that particular difference reveals their internal similarities. Whatever the external distinctions, compromise driven by unbelief always ends up looking and smelling the same. …
A Three Way Collision
“This has managed to obscure two absolutely fundamental problems for the Church. The first is that the dominant contemporary political force within Islam is an ideology that seeks to destroy Christianity and its values. The second is that, because the Church has failed to resolve its deeply ambiguous and conflict-laden attitude towards the Jews, it …
Sin and Grace as Culturally Potent
“The Augustinian theology and philosophy of history with their intense realization of the burden of inherited evil under which the human race laboured and their conception of divine grace as a continually renewed source of supernatural energy which transforms human nature and changes the course of history—all this had become part of the spiritual patrimony …
Honest Subscription
Hermeneutics, the art and science of interpretation, sounds like a horribly dusty affair. And of course, some have handled the subject along these lines. This is not how it should be; when the question of how a text is to be interpreted arises, we should feel a leaden weight in the gut, and adreneline in …
Falling for Anything
“And as post-moral Britain demanded that ever more constraints be knocked away, the Church was forced further and further into hollowing out its own identity. As it renounced its own culture, it embraced others, while never ceasing to grovel for its onetime sin of believing in itself” (Melanie Phillips, Londonistan, p. 140).