Letter to the Editor: The closing line of JD Greer's 'Why I’m Not a Christian Nationalist' in TGC."So, to paraphrase Roger Williams, give me as much Christianity as possible in our ...
Letters to Delight and Inform
Disqualified Buttercups
“In 2 Tim. 2:3-6, the apostle Paul compares the work of ministry to three vocations, each of which involves a goodly amount of sweat—soldiers, athletes, and farmers. The calling of ministry is not for buttercups, and if buttercups can do it, it isn’t ministry.”
Concise and to the Point, p. 89
The Charlie Kirk Track and Field Complex
Logos School here in Moscow recently announced their plans to build a track and field complex and, having obtained permission from TPUSA, to name it after Charlie Kirk. This kind of thing is mightily offensive to the progressive left, which is going in big these days for assassination chic. In contrast, we simply wanted to …
Dinesh and the American Fixer-Upper
Introduction: Just a few short days ago, Dinesh D’Souza decided to start talking trash about Calvinism online, and—let us be frank—that created something of a set-to. The imbroglio consisted of two parts. One part had to do with the standard doctrinal questions which naturally arise whenever these questions come up. “Thou wilt say then unto …
And Now Rank All Four
“This is equivalent to Luther’s comment (which may be apocryphal) that he would rather be governed by a wise Turk than a foolish Christian. Quite so, but we must also remember there are two other options as well. Beware of false dichotomies. There is also the option of the foolish Turk and the wise Christian.”
Concise and to the Point, p. 85
These Things Happen
Glow-Brain Limitations
“Christian orthodoxy requires us to deny that the mind and the brain are synonymous. For the secularist, the brain is the driver of the car. For the Christian, the brain is the clutch and transmission that the (invisible) driver of the car, a driver named Soul, Heart, or Mind, uses to make the car go. For the Christian, the glow-brain reductionism of the secularist is like taking x-rays of the clutch in an attempt to find out what song the driver is humming and why he is so happy to get to his destination. A great deal of what makes us go will never be reducible to brain scans.”
Concise and to the Point, p. 84
With the Sky an Azure Blue
“When the secular counselor gets to the brain, he has found the roof of the cavern. When the Christian counselor gets to the brain, he has found the bottom step of a staircase that leads up to the top of the tower that looks out over the sea.”
Concise and to the Point, p. 84.
The Wiki-Me. And the Weal Me.
Introduction: Last week we taped an episode of Man Rampant for our upcoming season, and the interview was with Larry Sanger, the man who initially built out Wikipedia. He has done quite a number ...
Not the Best Consulting Group
“It is quite possible to glean wisdom from a donkey (Num. 22:31), but this is very different from seeking wisdom among the donkeys.”
Concise and to the Point, p. 81