How we handle words tells a great deal about us. The questions I have raised about secret city council deliberations with Bill London, ex officio something, I haven’t figured out what yet, have raised some hackles out there. For example, Rose Huskey, one of our volunteer litigant ladies, has posted an, um, enthusiastic response to …
Lord’s Day Prayer 33
Father of all life, we thank You for our physical life, and for our life in the Holy Spirit. We thank You not only for life, but also for that which sustains life. We thank You for the food before us, and for the grace that the food represents in so many ways. We would …
You Might Need to Recuse Yourself If . . .
In a post yesterday, I noted that Linda Pall needs to recuse herself from any case appealed to city council that involves folks that she has been actively trying to help run out of town. From the Public Records material I have received, it is apparent to me that she has a clear moral obligation …
Green Jello
Morning, visionaries, We have to be careful lest a love-fest break out here, but I would like to thank Angie for coveting my tag line, and for saying publicly that in her view I am not an anti-Semite. She says also that if I were to display any of those tendencies she would hop on …
Public Records
A short while ago I posted in this space that I had filed a Public Records Request with the City of Moscow, and I have now received back the results of that inquiry. My thanks to the courteous people at city hall. The item of greatest interest to me was Bill London’s email communications with …
Theonomy
In a recent response to Nick Gier, I wrote that all sins are deserving of death. And in the sight of God they are deserving of death, which is why all of us, being sinners, eventually die. But not all crimes should be treated equally by the civil magistrate. Murder and stealing someone’s lawn flamingo …
Fighting Fundies
My friend John Armstrong has recently written about the need to correct the spirit of fundamentalism. He sees the ditch on the right side of the road (fundamentalism) as presenting a greater danger to evangelicalism than the ditch on the left side (liberalism, postmodernism). Now I happen to think that there are more denominational and …
Sometimes An Excuse Is Just An Excuse
Just finished a book called The Lost Message of Jesus, by Steve Chalke and Alan Mann. The book was a mix — a small handful of good insights, a few places where I was glad they didn’t give that part of the store away, a few sections of thundering naivete, and overall that general bleh …
John Knox Meets Siddhartha
In a recent post to Vision 20/20, one of our adversaries (Nick Gier) listed fourteen ways in which we kirkers differ from other conservative evangelical Christians (what he calls CECs). Normally this kind of superficial analysis would not warrant a response on the merits, but because purveyors of this kind of superficial analysis appear to …
Oh Yeah
Some time ago, I unsubscribed from a community listserve discussion called Vision 20/20, though in calling it a “discussion” my charitable faculties are fully extended. A less strenuous description of it would have to include words and phrases like fulmination, jeremiad, screed, baying at the moon, and other forms of progressivist yodeling. Anyhow, I unsubscribed …