Theology That Bites Back
Dear Darla, Okay, so now we are getting into some treacherous territory. This is an area fraught with peril, and one of the reasons it is so perilous is that we all, for emotional reasons, have decided to ignore and suppress a major facet of male/female interactions. The end result is that nobody knows what …
“As many isolated and lonely Christians have found out, any reluctance to throw oneself into the cauldron of war fever is usually taken as some species of treachery.”
The Cultural Mind, p. 41
Letter to the Editor: When it comes to honoring the Sabbath, I have lately been thinking that as automation and artificial intelligence become more common place in our lives, Christians may ...
“While their benefits have no doubt been many, church pageants have also had the unfortunate result of making us think that biblical characters did little more than stand around in their bathrobes.”
The Cultural Mind, p. 39
Introduction: When the thick fog of a judicial stupor has descended upon a people, there is really no way to write a sprightly article that will successfully explain to everyone how we might ...
“When the Spirit is grieved by elder boards packed with schoolmarms, liberty disappears along with any understanding of what true liberty even is. And when we have lost this understanding in the community of saints, we are dreaming to think we can find it anywhere else . . . Not to put too fine a point on it, we are becoming slaves of men in the political realm because we do not care enough about understanding liberty in the church. Freedom frightens us.”
The Cultural Mind, p. 37
“A willingness to turn sins into crimes will always end up with a willingness to turn not-sins into crimes. The spectacle of an ATF anti-alcohol SWAT team crashing the wedding at Cana ought to be sufficient to make the chilling point.”
The Cultural Mind, p. 36
“We appear constitutionally incapable of distinguishing sins and crimes . . . When the hounds of righteousness are in full-throated pursuit of any public sin or sickness, it is perilous not to join in the chase. These civic bloodhounds currently have the tobacco companies up a tall pine tree, and while some aesthetic satisfaction can be gained from the spectacle of Philip Morris staring down at us like a concerned possum, there really are some deeper issues at stake.”
The Cultural Mind, pp. 35-36
In news that should startle and amaze precisely no one, it appears that a controversy has broken out on Twitter. It happened on this wise. In response to the #BuffaloMassacre and #ReplacementTheory, Jackie Hill Perry tweeted this: “Say what ya want about Farrakhan (because there’s a whole lot to say) but this right here is …
