Letter to the Editor: Re: Christ or Chemosh Doug, a simple thanks for your faithful stand and posts always seasoned with salt. You and I wouldn't agree on everything secondary (baptism, ...
They Keep Writing Them So . . .
Christ or Chemosh?
Introduction: There will of course be a temptation for conservatives to regard this particular rooftop debacle as just one more "art fail," and we have kind of gotten used to all of those. Those ...
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Death and Life
“The law must slay me before I can understand it. But the same thing is true of the Gospel.”
The Cultural Mind, p. 295
The Sooner You Get Behind, The More Time You Have For Catching Up
Who Holds the Knife?
“Rather than have the Bible cut us up in pieces, we do the obvious, which is to cut the Bible up into pieces. We would rather do the dividing than be divided. So we call the pieces by different names—‘Oh, that’s in the Old Testament!’ Or we postulate a false dichotomy between law and Gospel.”
The Cultural Mind, p. 294
Except for That
“The woman’s unborn child can be killed for having birth defects, but if he navigates his way past our abortion law and is successfully born, we will arrange special Olympics for him, handicapped parking in every lot in town, and access into every building in the nation. In a fever pitch of moral do-goodism, we insist that such individuals have a fundamental right to be able to access anything—except for their lives.”
The Cultural Mind, pp. 290-291+
A Woke Framing of the Classical Christian School Movement
Preamble Instead of an Introduction: Last week saw something of a commotion in the classical Christian world of education. Jessica Hooten Wilson published an article, and her revised version can be ...
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Compensatory Crusades
“In other words, when it becomes apparent that we as a people are disregarding God’s law in some flagrant way, the next thing to watch for is some kind of moral crusade that will help compensate for it. In our nation today, a woman who is six months pregnant can do to a clinic and have the child terminated. Not only can she do this, but she can receive considerable societal support in doing so. The law of God is flagrantly insulted. But if that same woman stands on a busy street corner, visibly pregnant, and smokes herself a pack of cigarettes, she would bear the brunt of a lot of cold, icy stares. How dare she risk a low birth rate?”
The Cultural Mind, p. 290
Letters That Brighten the Lives of Everyone
Letter to the Editor: I'm a Canon+ Subscriber and I listen to your work frequently. Thank you for all you do. I have a C.S. Lewis question. How much did C.S. Lewis actually know about ...
Why Are Things Moving?
“Jesus said that the Jewish leaders searched the Scriptures—because they thought they would find life in them. But those Scriptures, Jesus said, bore witness to Him. Propositional truth, whether found in the book of Romans or in the Westminster Confession of Faith, must be understood as a window through which we look. Every true statement also can become a mural at which a very ‘conservative’ man can blindly stare. And if anyone points out that the objects in the mural are alive, he brings that person up on charges.”
The Cultural Mind, pp. 287-288