“It is easy for Christians with a tender conscience to believe that our critics are being sincere when they chide us for our sins. But they are not at all sincere. They hate us for our virtues, ...
Why Didn’t This Start With the Veterinarians?
“Our secularist overlords might act a little indignant at such a saying, muttering that we Christians are the ones who are anti-science. Yeah, right. You think little boys can become little girls, and you think we’re anti-science? Why don’t you turn a bull into a cow first, and then we can talk about your science.”
Chestertonian Calvinism, p. 149
Faithfulness the Daughter of Faith
“All husbands are married, but not all husbands are faithful to their marriage vows. In the same way, all the baptized are covenantally bound to Christ, but not all such Christians are faithful to their baptismal vows. (And faithfulness to these vows consists of faith alone, incidentally, and not by works as some slanderously report me as saying.”
Fitness on the Instagram Index
With Some Needing to be Committed
“The reason our culture is demented is that our gods are demented.”
Chestertonian Calvinism, p. 149
A Faint Hint, in Other Words
“Micro-aggressions are to real sin what LaCroix is to fruit juice.”
Chestertonian Calvinism, p. 156
The Spots Are Not Beauty Marks
“Secularism is not the genius of the West but is rather the disease of the West.”
Chestertonian Calvinism, p. 148
The Duty of Natural Affection
. . . The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone,All centuries but this and every country but his own. W.S. Gilbert, The Mikado Introduction: As I have watched the Twitters over the months ...
When Evil Improves Something
“Think for a moment. Would it have improved The Lord of the Rings if Tolkien had left out Sauron? Or Saruman? Or the Nazgul? Or Gollum? With the disappearance of each villain or antagonist, is the story getting progressively better? Or worse?”
Chestertonian Calvinism, p. 144
Letters That Are Creeping Up on August
Letter to the Editor: Thank you for your tireless work, not only to start a restored method of education, but also to be such a defender of the faith. My question is about the millennium. ...