Letter to the Editor: And A Well Done for AbigailFirst of all, thank you for the post.Second, by following all the links , I found your recommendation of the book The Abusive Wife by ...
Letters With a December Vibe
The First Splotch on the Skin
“The antisemitism I am going to be talking about is not the central problem. It is the canary that conked out in the mine. It is the first couple of coughs in a six-month losing battle with lung cancer. It is one of the fruits of a rancid tree, the tree of envy.”
American Milk and Honey, p. 2
And a Well Done for Abigail
Introduction: Over the years, I have had periodic occasion to wish that more Christian women in bad situations would show the courage and initiative shown by the biblical heroine Abigail. I ...
All in the Same Boat
“It is not antisemitism to believe that Jews are sinful. This is simply orthodox Christianity. All of us are sinful. But antisemitism does believe that Jews are uniquely sinful, and particularly destructive. As a stand-alone dogma, this is nonsense.”
American Milk and Honey, p. xvi
Clean Up in Aisle 7
“We should not have Aslan for a friend if we brought in that rabble,” said Trufflehunter as they came away from the cave of the Black Dwarfs. “Oh, Aslan!” said Trumpkin, cheerily but contemptuously. ...
Let’s Start With “Sweetheart of the Rodeo”
Definition
“Antisemitism is the notion that Jews are uniquely malevolent and destructive in their cultural, economic, and political influence in the world.”
American Milk and Honey, p. xv
What Pastors Need to be Able to See
“We must indeed learn how to fight for nature, not by means of nature. Natural affections by themselves do not empower us to engage on behalf of nature. But anyone who cannot identify the crackle of envy in antisemitism, or the smell of sulfur that wafts off of it, is not qualified for pastoral ministry” (American Milk and Honey, p. xv).
Americanitas
Introduction: So this post is the last post of NQN 2024, and as the calendar would have it, it is also the day just before Thanksgiving. In the spirit of both Thanksgiving and NQN, I intend to write ...
Yes, I Said Hot Pot
“Some might say, in defense of their idolatrous commitment to an absolutist view of tribal identity, that Scripture tells us to stick to the bounds of our appointed habitation (Acts 17:26)—as though this exercise of God’s sovereignty applied only to remote northern villages in Finland, or to White Town, Oklahoma. But God’s sovereignty in this applies equally to Brooklyn, that hot pot of jumbled ethnicities.”
American Milk and Honey, p. xv