Letter to the Editor: There are exactly 37 ways to balk at the professional level, but only 36 at the high school level. Shall I name them all? Andy, high school umpire No, ...
Letters From Down the Road
Not One More Minute
“No conscientious pastor can be willingly complicit in a child having to spend one more minute under the control of his abuser, and no pastor can willingly turn over an innocent person to a system that will simply presume him to be guilty and quite possibly make a hash out of the rest of his life. That really is a true pastoral dilemma.”
Concise and to the Point, p. 51
The Rise of the Islamo-Commies
Introduction: A decade ago, Canon published Empires of Dirt, and given our cultural moment now, the subtitle is interesting to look back on. That subtitle was “Secularism, Radical Islam, and the Mere Christendom Alternative.” In some respects, the terrain back then was quite different than it is today, but in other ways, it is still …
A Lot Less
“Because of the rampant confusion of spiritual and inspired (which are not the same thing at all), we need to do more theological spadework in the garden of our studies, and less beating our brethren over the head with the spade.”
Concise and to the Point, p. 47
Well, There Are Many Nuances
Not That He Asked Me To, Which Is the Problem
“I am not bound to accept a prophetic utterance from a charismatic friend the same way I am bound to believe the book of Romans.”
Concise and to the Point, p. 45
And There You Have It
“There is no way to maintain that the revelatory gifts are ongoing without jeopardizing the integrity of the canon of Scripture. If the word given is a Word from God, and if we believe that it is, then we must treat it as though it is.”
Concise and to the Point, p. 44
His Blood Be Upon Us and Our Children
Dear Ehud, And now we have come to a short parenthetical topic. This is one that I wanted to address shortly after the earlier letter I wrote about Christ as the Prophet, the prophet "like unto ...
Nature Can Be Spooky
“We are often tempted to say that some things are supernatural simply because we do not know how far nature actually goes.”
Concise and to the Point, p. 43
Letters, High and Inside
Letter to the Editor: I’m interested in your practical advice for husbands on handling disagreement with their wives. How can a husband firmly disagree, correct, or push back on something ...