Theology That Bites Back
Introduction: In the years to come, when we all look back to review the meaning of our era, one of the central things we will remember about it all is that this was a time when so many lies came ...
Letter to the Editor: Re: Make Definitions Great Again Dear Doug, Grateful for defining terms ahead of a season of no quarter, which I hope and trust shall yield many righteous and witty ...
“When God is ‘removed’ from His predestinating throne, men do not merely breathe a sigh of relief. Rather, they quickly notice that the throne is vacant and begin scheming about how to occupy it . . . The only alternative to a predestinating state is a predestinating God . . . And because we do not want Him, we get them.”
The Cultural Mind, p. 161-162
So this is NQNQ coming up, meaning No Quarter November Quinquennial, which in its turn means that this is our fifth year of doing this. In dogged pursuit of fiery excellence—fiery but mostly peaceful—we are reprising Saul Alinsky’s sixth rule—”A good tactic is one your people enjoy.” And why wouldn’t they enjoy it? We are …
“Predestinarian Calvinists we’re the fathers of civil liberty, and advocates of free will paved the way for various forms of statism.”
The Cultural Mind, p. 160
Introduction In order for us to navigate the next nine miles of bad road gracefully, one of the things we are going to have to do is learn how to work with stipulated definitions. There is a big difference between a word or phrase used in a specific way by someone who is careful to …
“Life in the church involves Word and sacraments, while life in the parish involves auto mechanics, farming, retail shops, and schools, along with all the other stuff men and women do.”
The Cultural Mind, p. 152
Letter to the Editor: Has it really been four years since that piece on Horror to which I responded? Having a large batch of children is like stepping into a time acceleration machine. As ...
“Joseph did not find himself ruling Egypt because he graduated from the right law school. Daniel did not find himself a great man in Babylon through some shrewd Mesopotamian logrolling. They got where they did because they had backbones that would not bend.”
The Cultural Mind, p. 148
