Introduction: I have from time to time noticed a certain measure of exasperation with me. I am not here speaking about the exasperation of the progressives on the left because that can be hard ...
The Fighting Moderates, aka the Pink-Pilled
Nothing On Earth
“I happen to believe that a good deal of racial repentance really is in order, but it sure won’t be ushered in by any study committees on racial reconciliation who have been reading all the wrong sort of books. It will be brought in by a fundamentalist preacher, right out of a Flannery O’Connor short story, preaching hot gospel with his shirt sleeves rolled up and looking like nothing on earth. I don’t care what color he is. What will matter is the color of his words.”
Such a Blessing
Prevailing Winds
“If you have a cottage on the beach, the breezes blow in from off the bay. If you are in the PCA, the breezes blow in from Manhattan. Perhaps the problem, ye Presbyterians, is that you try to address problems like this with study committees. What a white thing to do.”
Inexcusable and Unforgivable Are Not the Same
“Apart from the cross of Christ, nothing is forgivable because all of it is inexcusable. But in Christ, the inexcusable can be forgiven.”
That Time Virginia Flogged a Baptist
Introduction: This is a picture of the flogging of Obadiah Holmes in Massachusetts, who was flogged for holding unauthorized worship services. Let us even stipulate that Obadiah was a handful, and still our response is one of disapprobation. And the same kind of thing happened down in Virginia a century later. So yes, there was …
And I Mean “Seriously Tries”
“Don’t use words like ‘dialogue’ or ‘conversation’ when what you have planned is a lecture . . . In a Christian conversation, everyone talks, and everyone tries to listen.”
These Letters Are Just the Best
Letter to the Editor: In this post , you suggest that "I am going to be white even harder" is an improper response. Elsewhere, you claim that honoring your father and mother includes interaction ...
Because Politics Doesn’t Know
“Sin has political consequences, but avoid putting politics in charge of the definition of sin.”
Ethnic Conceit as Denial of Christ
Introduction: Allow me to start by saying that I am not trying to pick on A.S. Protestant particularly. It is just that I saw this float by attached to someone in my Twitter feed—and because as it ...