“We live in a time when a number of very foolish Christian parents have attempted to discipline foolishly, found out that that does not work, and concluded that the problem must be with God’s Word, and not with their own inept applications of it”
Post Lucem Tenebrae
Introduction: A week ago, my wife and I just finished a delightful vacation in France and Switzerland, and it was really something. There was wine, and there was cheese, and historical sites, and there was wine, and then some food, and then a cheese course. It was a time. I am still full. Among the …
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Which Naturally We All Accepted Together
“Conformity quickly became the new cardinal sin in our society.”
Nation of Rebels, p. 30
Obedience Starts Now
“Your requirement to discipline has to be based on what God tells you to do in this moment, not based on whether you were the kind of kid you ought to have been. If you were not the kind of kid you ought to have been, then you don’t fix that by refusing to be the kind of parent you ought to be. You ought to repent and start doing it God’s way now.”
And . . . the Letters are Back!
Letter to the Editor: In Defend the Meta, I like your illustration of the “levels” of presuppositions that when “stacked” upon each other create a worldview. These are helpful ...
Because Copping a Pose Takes Less Work
”The idea that artists must take an oppositional stance toward mainstream society is hardly new. It has its origins in 18th-century Romanticism, a movement that went on to dominate the artistic imagination throughout the 19th century.”
Nation of Rebels, p. 16
The Discipline Starts Elsewhere
“Your emotional state might feel like disciplining when you should not, or it might feel like not disciplining when you should, so you cannot base discipline on the state of your emotions. In order to teach obedience, your disciplining must be itself obedient and disciplined”
Defend the Meta
Introduction: So while I was on vacation, another skirmish broke out between David French and some of French’s critics, and so I thought that it would not be out of place if I entered the discussion, kind of, with some day-late-ten-dollar-over observations. I say kind of because I am not going to get into any …
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Unlike those Sold-Out Hippiecrits
“So where did the idea of ‘alternative’ come from? The idea that you had to be unpopular to order to be authentic?”
Nation of Rebels, p. 14.
Adjust Your Batting Average
“Remember that God gave Adam and Eve a perfect garden: there was a world full of yes, and there was only one no. Minimize the number of no’s in your home. This is another way of saying that you should pick your battles carefully as parents. Suppose that over the space of a month, you have issued a hundred commands, and the kids have been constantly disobeying them. It would be far better for you to reduce those hundred commands to ten commands, and enforce every one of those ten, than to keep it at a hundred and enforce a fifth of the time”