“Even though this is America, we have no constitutional right to easy answers.”
The Cultural Mind, p. 124
Which Is Pretty Slippery
“We see the lying ways in which we handle our laws, wanting them to be as slippery as our hearts.”
The Cultural Mind, p. 121
Fight Laugh Feast/Knoxville 2022
So this coming October, I’ll be in Knoxville Tennessee at the Fight Laugh Feast Network’s third annual conference. The theme of this year’s conference is “Lies, Propaganda, Storytelling, and the Serrated Edge.” The subtitle could be “Culture War Ain’t Beanbag.” I’ll be speaking twice throughout the three-day event. On Friday night, the title of my …
The Kill Switch and the Steering Wheel
Dear Darla, So in my last letter, I concluded with a reference to you meeting a genuine prospect, and I believe I even used the word “eventually.” And now your mother has informed my wife that ...
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In Which Letters Bring Us More in Touch With Our Deeper More Spiritual Selves
Letter to the Editor: This is in reference to your blog, Crossway at a Crossroads. I also posted this on your Youtube site. Doug, you impugn Carl Trueman for (paraphrased) "analyzing Rousseau ...
Here’s the Door
“Because the possibility of any kind of creedal discipline is negligible in our day, those who have abandoned the Gospel are now openly seeking to make their distinctive into negotiable items and want to be held by all as being ‘within the pale.’ Thus, we do not have to agree with them, but we do have to agree to disagree, and to do so as fellow . . . evangelicals. They do not resist disagreement; in fact, they welcome it. But the disagreement must come in the form of continuing dialogue, and not in the form of showing them the door.”
The Cultural Mind, p. 117
So Then . . . the FBI
Introduction: So, at last week’s Grace Agenda, we concluded the event with a giant Block Party. The evening was fabulous, just like last year, and one of the crowning blessings for us this time around was that our goings-on were surveilled by the FBI. It is a dangerous world out there, and when people start …
Just Wait a Little Longer
“If a man wants a garden full of weeds, he does not need to do a thing. And if a church wants its lampstand removed, in a fallen world, all that is necessary is a little more standing around”
The Cultural Mind, p. 116
That’s Nice
All Connected
“Christians are people of the Word, and as a result they are people of words. We love the Truth, and this is why we must necessarily love truths. The flip side of this is that when a love for the Lord Jesus declines, one of the first places it manifests itself is in an obvious contempt for words. Words become little lumps of neutral clay on which a dishonest heart can exercise its creativity. But the real source of this rebellion in the little things, and the final direction of it, is hostility to the ultimate Word”
The Cultural Mind, p. 115