“I don’t mean to pick on English departments today, but if the head of such a department at some soft Christian college has a bumper sticker that says “Not All Who Wander Are Lost,” and the background of the bumper sticker is decorated with stardust, and the driver of this particular Volvo things my language here is intemperate, injudicious, and unbecoming a Christian minister, then what we are actually dealing with is a cowardly refusal to read the situation. And I don’t care if he is published and has tenure. I don’t care if he is a two-feather hobbit.”
And That’s How It Happened
As Swift as Anything
“Shall I praise you for this checklist mentality? Wisdom is pursuing you, friend, but you are fleet of foot.”
The Issue Is Actually the Circumference
“We continue to allow our evangelical leaders to represent us with an etiolated ‘gospel-centeredness’ that keeps the gospel at the center of a tiny little box that we store in the innermost recesses of our being.”
AI and the Cream Rising
Introduction: I have already raised the central concern that we should have concerning AI, which is the problem that I have identified as AI-dolatry. AI excels at role-playing and has no scruples ...
Which Is Not a Sign of Advancing Sophistication
“Young people today are routinely tempted by things that their grandfather didn’t find out about until his second year of medical school.”
May Brings Both Flowers and Letters
I want to mention to you all that today's letters have an unusual number of Andrews. While some might maintain that you can never have too many Andrews, others might suspect that one particular Andrew ...
Meditative Preparations
“Each one of your teenagers today is walking around with Bourbon Street in his pocket, or in her purse. And in many cases, always downloaded. You are driving off to church, and your (inexplicably sullen) teenager is in the way back, AirPods in, preparing his heart for worship by listening to “effin’ on the blim blam, n-word in the vocative plural!”
Proverbial Wisdom
And It Will Come About
“The chaos of the deep upon which the Spirit moved was brought out of nothing by the Word (Col. 1:17). The protons at the center of every atom, the position and velocity of every asteroid in the great darkness beyond Mars, and the awesome intricacy of the double helix . . . all of it, spoken into existence by the Word and sustained by that same Word . . . And that Word is always driving in the same direction—the formation of the world that will come about as a result of the Word’s authority.”