Letter to the Editor: Your recent reminder to not take the bait provokes a series of questions regarding the application of Biblical categories to the current cultural climate in America. ...
Letters for a Mid-April Tuesday
The Weight Room Down at Hotel California
Introduction: There is no one single cause of the cultural disintegration that we see happening all around us, but one of the more significant factors has been the impact of a horde of fatherless ...
Repenting of Learned Helplessness
“Whenever socialism—the singular mania of the Democrats—is imposed anywhere, it is the death of that place. It has been imposed on black America, and it was imposed on black America by the Democrats. The results have been an unmitigated disaster. The ones who should be held responsible should be the ones who did it. I have no objection to black leaders calling abuse. It is long past time for them to do so. But they ought to call abuse on the one who is actually hitting them.”
Sepia for the Gravy
When Sovereign Grace is Corny
“A preacher of the gospel can say no condemnation, but no one else can. If a preacher of the gospel undertakes to deliver this message, he must preach it to every creature. He must do it in the spirit of the Sunday School song I learned when I was a kid—preach to red and yellow, black and white. Does that sound corny? Too bad.”
Not This Week Anyway
“The answer is that such a thing is impossible. Being impossible, it may be tentatively ranked among those things that are not going to happen.”
The Politics of Justice, and the Injustice of Politics
Introduction: So a court has now come to a verdict on the charges leveled against Paige Patterson. You may recall that there was no little excitement in the Southern Baptist Convention a few years ...
The Guilty Pleasure of Guilt
David Stove “refers to whites who ‘having renounced the pleasures of power . . . discover the pleasures of guilt.’ This goes double for the evangelical racial healers, who—in possession of the Holy Spirit—do for our race relations what Benny Hinn does for rheumatoid arthritis.”
A Digital Mailbag Filled With Ones and Zeros
Letter to the Editor: Re: How Hymenaeus Struggled With Math Doug; Please don't use "At the end of the day". Ron -- Doug responds: Ron, I understand your point, and take the ...
How Context Matters
“Put another way, black lives matter would be a wonderful sentiment if we found it in a personal letter of William Wilberforce to his mother.”