“The teaching of the Bible here is that the chaos of panic is not a response to chastisement but is part of the chastisement itself.”
The Cultural Mind, p. 124
Letters on Mabloggy Stuff
Letter to the Editor: I watched your March 4, 2013 debate with Andrew Sullivan and your March 26, 2021 advice for Christians . I grew up with the LCMS version of Christianity and still hold ...
Affection for Israel as Biblical Requirement
Introduction: This could be regarded as one of my periodic forays into the tangled thicket of "what gives with Israel?" You are to imagine it as me putting on a gray coat and blue trousers in order ...
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Though Some Might Wish Otherwise
“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 …