I am posting old articles here that ran in Table Talk, and this one was part of the run up to Y2K. Hence the situation is somewhat dated, but the principles involved certainly are not. The message at that time was that repentance is good preparation if disaster happens, and good preparation if it doesn’t. …
Typographic Man
“Almost all of the characteristics we associate with mature discourse were amplified by typography, which has the strongest possible bias toward exposition: a sophisticated ability to think conceptually, deductively, and sequentially; a high valuation of reason and order; an abhorrence of contradiction; a large capacity for detachment and objectivity; and a tolerance for delayed response” …
The Standing Veto
“Many among us have no other reason why they oppose good motions but because they were not first in them. They are loath to break the ice, to begin a good work if they see any difficulty in it, and yet the cause of God must not go on, indeed Christ must not be admitted, …
One Little Word Shall Fell Him
Christians are people of the Word, and as a result they are people of words. We love the Truth, and this is why we must necessarily love truths. The flip side of this is that when a love for the Lord Jesus declines, one of the first places it manifests itself is in an obvious …
A Question of Relative Strength
“A suicide bomber may be a weak weapon, but not against a suicide culture” (Mark Steyn, America Alone, p. 210).
But Not the Formality of an Open Mind
“Obviously, my point of view is that the four-hundred-year imperial dominance of typography was of far greater benefit than deficit. Most of our modern ideas about the uses of the intellect were formed by the printed word, as were our ideas about education, knowledge, truth and information. I will try to demonstrate that as typography …
The Office of a Bishop (1 Tim. 3:1-7)
INTRODUCTION: Given the nature of the Church, and the message we have been given, it is important for the leadership of the Church to evidence in their lives the fact that the gospel works. In Christ we are proclaiming a new way of “being human,” and because this is true, we take all comers, all …
A Really Curious First Priority
“After September 11, the first reaction of just about every prominent Western leader was to visit a mosque: President Bush did, so did the Prince of Wales, the prime minister of the United Kingdom, the prime minister of Canada and many more. And, when the get-me-to-the-mosque-on-time fever died away, you couldn’t help feeling that this …
Take This Blog, For Instance
[Speaking of McLuhan] “I believed then, as I believe now, that he spoke in the tradition of Orwell and Huxley—that is, as a prophesier, and I have remained steadfast to his teaching that the clearest way to see through a culture is to attend to its tools for conversation” (Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death, …
Ron Paul: YouTubin’ FeeNom
Something funny is going on.