“The like was often Paul’s case, who at first had an easy work with people, when they were heathens, in comparison of what he had with the same when they became Christians, and tainted with false doctrine, or listeners to corrupt teachers, as in the Epistles to the Corinthians and Galatians is clear” (Durham, p. …
Girard Nails the Anonymous Accuser
“Envy loves to hide, but it also loves company because it wants to make converts and, in order to contaminate them, it must go on display” (Rene Girard, A Theater of Envy, p.187).
Lord Willing and the Creeks Don’t Rise
Here is the breakdown for our upcoming Trinity Fest, our second annual event of this nature and magnitude. Just around the corner, check your calenders. That Monday, after registration and kicking off with some history lectures, the party begins with St. Brigid’s Feast. Last year we consumed vast quantities of bone-in chicken swimming in a …
Arguments and Character
One of the things that sinful men do to escape accountability is to pretend that they are deeply concerned about higher abstract principles. They want to detach character and history from all their disputes, and they want to do it for what should be obvious reasons. When Jesus was dealing with the woman who had …
Why the Floor Plans Were All So Similar
“So Gropius falls upon the thorns of life; he bleeds. And his architecture is based upon a sociology of human relations which in turn rests on the exigencies of keeping a number of affairs going at once. This is the human matrix out of which the Wohnmaschine grows (the speech of this name was written …
The Cross At the Intersection of Heaven and Earth
“The flat roof was an article of faith for the Bauhauser, one whose religious dimensions would be exposed if the flat roof indeed did leak, which, as everyone knows, it indeed does. Once the impracticality of the flat roof becomes apparent, its antitranscendental meaning becomes obvious. When it comes to modern architecture, the flat roof …
A Ground of Irritation
“Or, it may be, many are counted scandalous who cannot legally and judicially be found to be such. For it is more easy to assert a scandal that to prove [one], even often when it is true. And it being rather a ground of irritation than edification, when a process is entered and not convincingly …
The World With A Flat Roof
“In the limited vocabulary of the architect, there are only a few terms available to express an attitude toward the transcendent, and the roof is one of the more important. The flat roof was an article of faith with the modern architect, no matter what the practical consequences . . . Whether it leaked or …
Public Rebuke
“If the offenses are of that nature that a public rebuke is necessary in respect of the circumstances and aggravations thereof, it is not to be neglected. Yet it is not necessary that every offense that comes to the eldership, yea even these that are known to many, should at all times be brought to …
The Surrender is Settled
In the previous post, I was (what is it we do these days? I forget) interfacing with James Smith’s book Who’s Afraid of Postmodernism? This book is part of a series by Baker Academic, a series called “The Church and Postmodern Culture.” In the series preface, this is what we read: “How should concrete, in-the-pew …