Theology That Bites Back
Introduction: Let’s begin by juxtaposing a few things, shall we? I have been arguing of late that Christians who are in the process of folding (like that cheap card table bought at a yard sale) use the word woke as a good word, representing either a good thing, or a thing that Christians can retrieve …
“Our rulers murdered Him because we didn’t want to be shown the way back to God, and yet through that murder, we were shown the way back to God” (Mere Fundamentalism, p. 14).
Wokery: Thank you for this. Would you mind explaining briefly what “woke” is, in laymen terms, and would you mind giving a brief explanation of why it’s sin? I agree that it is sin, but there are these contrary mind daggers competing for the moral high ground. Therefore, if I had a concise statement on …
“Our problem is not that we are finite, but rather that we are rebellious. If finitude were the problem, then clearly the problem is someone else’s fault. We clearly had nothing to do with the fact that we are teeny little bits of matter on the face of the cosmos. We can’t help being small …
Introduction: You may depend upon it, say I, that any evangelical church, denomination, publisher, magazine, study center, society, or seminary, or any other collective Christian thing that we might fashion or think up, that is not in an open, unremitting and hostile war against every form of social justice, identity politics, or wokeness of any …
“If there is an infinite chasm between us and God, and if the chasm is to be crossed, it will have to be crossed from His side to ours . . . If the chasm is to be crossed, then God must cross it. He must reveal Himself” (Mere Fundamentalism, p. 10).
“Humility is a low door into a high Heaven. Narrow is the pass, broad is the mountain meadow” (Mere Fundamentalism, p. 7).
A recent conversation with a friend prompted me to rake together in a small pile some of the thoughts I have developed over the years on the subject of the kind of decisions that donors need to make. What principles ought to guide those decisions? If you take the phrase tithes and offerings, I am …
“The truth is narrow, but the truth is never sectarian, or to be thought of as the cheat codes for a mystery religion . . . The way is narrow, Jesus taught, but that narrow pass opens out into a glorious mountain valley, lush and green, and teeming with game. We do not embrace that …
