Theology That Bites Back
Welcome to the eighth iteration of No Quarter November. This is NQN, the Ocho. First, let me share the thing you are probably most interested in—the video. None of my beard hairs were harmed in the making of this thing, which was naturally a concern of yours, and we thought it got the message across …
“We do not have the option of sailing to a new world and starting over. We cannot move out of this dilapidated house in order to go build a new one. No, it must be a remodel project. The house is run down, and so we must fix it up. Not only so, but we have to do this while the house is also on fire. And at the same time, many of the other residents like it just the way it is and are fighting us tooth and nail. All this means that we need to have a robust theology of resistance.”
“In these disintegrating days, there will be a temptation to appeal to the Lordship of Jesus Christ in order to prop up the western liberal tradition. And if the appeal is to Christ, I’ll take it, just like I think the wino at the soul kitchen ought to pray the prayer.”
Letter to the Editor: You, sir, are a loser at life. That’s a fair-minded statement. Mary Mary, you're telling me! Fair-minded? Are you kidding me? If you knew just ...
“I can get gumbo and grits more easily in New Orleans than I can in Manchester, New Hampshire. The same goes for hearing live zydeco. These represent variations in a common culture. A farmer with a pickup truck in Wisconsin listens to music all the time that sings about red Georgia clay, and this despite the fact that he has never seen any. This is part of the texture of a common culture, and a big part of what makes it so enjoyable to live in a country as big as ours. But abortion represents an alien civilization.”
Introduction: So this next chapter by Campbell is kind of long, so I am not going to tackle it all in one go. The territory to be covered this time around will simply be pp. 134-152—that should ...
I would like to thank Jeff Durbin and Bradley Pierce for what I thought was a respectful and fruitful debate. Most of it was ex temp, but my opening statement is below. Opening Statement “Civil magistrates should reject regulatory Pro-Life legislative strategies as biblically forbidden, morally compromised, and practically counterproductive.” I want to begin by …
“You cannot build a federal system when the component parts belong to different civilizations.”
“That self-awareness really was exceptional. But we have now lost anything resembling such humility, and have replaced it with Ozymandian pride, and are the laughing stock of the angels crammed into the balcony of the celestial matinee, who have seen then empires rise and fall, and it is not even lunch yet.”‘
