Introduction: We are coming up on the release of the Supreme Court decision on Dobbs. In anticipation of that decision, quite a few people are bracing for real trouble. As they ought to be. ...
Sounds Kind of Insurrectioney, Jane
A Function of Our Dwindling Pride
“Afflicted with pretty much everything the modern church is certainly looking around for remedies. But where and how we look for these remedies remains a function of what ails us, and we are not yet desperate enough to ask for directions to the divine pharmacy.”
The Cultural Mind, p. 59
And Hide It Good
Full and Overflowing
“The average Christian bookstore, which reflects accurately what we are about, is an abundant cornucopia of bushwah.”
The Cultural Mind, p. 57
Laws of Attraction
Dear Darla, So let’s get down to the business of serious analysis. What are you looking for in a man? Because there is no man on the scene right now, this question of serious analysis, though you ...
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Limited Supplies
“In the meantime, modernity, that once proud heresy, has visibly started to topple. Postmodernists are running around gleefully, just like looters after an earthquake in a great city, but postmodernity’s self-confessed parasitic relativism means that it has a cultural staying power which can be measured in weeks. After the looted Twinkies® run out, everyone will be hungry again.”
The Cultural Mind, p. 56
The Best Letters of All Time
Letter to the Editor: “We now live in a climate where an employee at any major American corporation who mentions to a coworker that he thinks that little boys are made of ‘snips and snails ...
Not the Gospel Moment We Think It Is
“The evangelical world is still sitting under modernity’s table, eager for any crumbs that may fall our way. The big news down here is when some rock star or other intimates that it is possible that, under certain conditions, he might believe in a divine being other than himself, we snatch it up eagerly and feast for weeks.”
The Cultural Mind, p. 55
A Banana Republic, But Without Any Bananas
Prolegomena to Any Future Monkeyshines: So then, let us review. Donald Trump, for all his mean tweets, was sitting on top of a pretty robust economy. When the infamous J6 protest went down, ...
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Excellence in a World Gone Mad
This is my commencement address for the Logos Online graduates. It is a time-honored custom, hoary with age, for commencement speakers to inform you graduates, and doing so quite solemnly, that the ...