Letter to the Editor: Do Trump's recent comments jive with smash mouth incrementalism? If so, how so? AW -- Doug responds: AW, it depends on what you mean. If you are ...
Letters Bring Out the Best in Us
A Robust Cossack
“I am not being attacked because I deny sola gratia and sola fide. I affirm them, and with about the same amount of enthusiasm as a Cossack dancing.”
Sexual Shenanigans in High Places
Introduction: So this last week saw a number of tawdry details about politicians’ lives come tumbling out into public view. No, no, I don’t mean anyone from Epstein’s client list. No, friends, let’s be realistic. What are you, crazy? A Quick Run Down: There was the Democrat lady, Susanna Gibson, running for state rep in …
Honest Subscription
“Strict subscription does not uphold the Westminster Confession. It is a flagrant denial of it. Synods and councils have erred, and do err, including this one, chump. Loose subscription is no help either. What good is a fence around the vegetable garden of truth that makes sure they are holes every ten feet big enough for the average erroneous rabbit? But there is an alternative to strict subscription, which necessarily elevates the Confession to the level of Scripture, and loose subscription, which lowers the Confession to the level of the 9th and 10th amendments to the U.S Constitution. This alternative is called honest subscription.”
Accentuate the Positive
The Original Arabic
“They can also differ in the adverb—how do you conserve things? One kind of conservative tries to do this woodenly. He doesn’t want anything to change, period, and so he insists that every candidate at presbytery take a vow to uphold the original Westminster in exactly the form it came down from Allah in the original Arabic. But the mushy liberals are no better. They want candidates to appear at presbytery like they were guests on Oprah. ‘Tell us what the Westminster Confession has meant to you in times of trouble.’”
Young, Restless, and Red-Pilled
Dear Gavin, Thanks very much for contacting me. I am glad that Dawson encouraged you to do that. Dawson is a great kid, the best of relatives. From what you wrote, and from what Dawson told ...
Well, Yes, There’s That
“They will perhaps add that this is why nobody wants to debate you. You keep getting off the point, which is that you are a heretic, and keep gravitating to extraneous material, like how the early Reformed fathers made almost all the same points you guys are making.”
Did My Part
“This salvation, a sheer gift of nothing but grace, bring with it forgiveness for my sins, everlasting righteousness, and salvation. This is all done through Christ’s work of obedience alone. In the work of salvation, Christ did His part and I did mine. He did the saving, and I got in the way.”
Epistolary Edification
Letter to the Editor: Isker, Dreher and Me: "Chesterton says somewhere that we must fight because we love what is behind us, and not just because we hate what is in front of us." Maybe ...