Introduction: This is just a hat tip to a famous painting, and not a violation of the Second Commandment. At the triennial meeting of the CREC Council a few weeks ago, we adopted a memorial on ...
Our Memorial on Nations: Comments and Observations
An Angular Delivery Platform
“As a red sky at evening predicts fair weather, so also bitter betrayals are often the prelude to great blessings. Some of the greatest blessings in my life have happened in just this way. What I wouldn’t have wished for for anything is now ranked with those things that I wouldn’t trade for anything.”
Concise and to the Point, p. 96
So Many Layers . . .
Trying to Manage Relationships by Lying
“Trimmers, patchers, managers, and other unreliable friends will not hesitate to tell you to lie if lying might make a problem disappear. They will not think of it as a lie, but what it actually is matters. A lie can never be fixed with another lie, not even a flattering one. Any kind of lie, even a peacemaking one, will sap the strength of your ministry. We are to speak the truth in love—but it must be the truth.”
Concise and to the Point, p. 95
The Execution of Hassan
Introduction: In the year 2009, an army psychiatrist named Major Nidal Hassan shot up an army base, killing 13 people at Ft. Hood. After a death sentence was pronounced a few years later, and after ...
AIdolatry and Worship in the Singularity
Remarks at the 2026 Council of the CREC Introduction: The singularity is the moment when man and machine together enter into a runaway feedback loop of autonomous self-improvement, such that technological ...
And Very Fruitful Meetings They Were
Family Life in C Major
“Your central qualifications for ministry are not found in your graduate studies, or in your library, or in the leadership webinars you attend. They are found around the dinner table, in your love for your wife, in kitchen laughter, in your glad sacrifices for your children, and in singing in the car.”
Concise and to the Point, p. 92
The True Point
“An army might enjoy some tranquil times marching from one battle to another—but the battles are why they are there. The wrong kind of conflict is always to be avoided, but the right kind of conflict is the point.”
Concise and to the Point, p. 91
Thoughts on the Eric Erickson Imbroglio
Introduction: Last week Eric Erickson published an article that claimed to have connected a lot of dots on what has come to be called the Woke Right. That article is here. He traced a lot of our woes back to Charles Haywood, a big donor on the hard right, and formulator of the “no enemies …