“The more the law of God is written on hearts and minds, which is what happens under the new covenant, the less necessary it is to have standards of public decency urged upon us from billboards” (Empires of Dirt, p. 227).
Taking Tolerance Back
“Christians invented the most open and tolerant society in the history of the world” (Empires of Dirt, p. 227).
Evangeliguilt
Introduction: I would like you to imagine, if you will, a tall woman with raven black hair, a full, sensuous mouth, a glint in her eyes, an over-topped bustier, a short skirt, and thigh-high leather boots with heels and lawn tops, and I desire that you would also imagine that this woman has just written …
Book of the Month/April 2018
This is a book I had never heard of, but a kind fellow sent me a copy on the supposition that it would be the kind of thing I liked. Having read it, his guess was right on the money. I really enjoyed the book, and the leads that the book provided. It is called …
Tolerance Can Be a Virtue
“If we were to say that Smith tolerates X, we do not yet know if Smith is a hero or a skunk. Does he tolerate respectful dissent, responsibly offered? Child porn? Smokers in bars? Transfats in restaurants? Ethnic violence? What does he tolerate?” (Empires of Dirt, p. 226).
Whoa. Layers.
One or the Other
“If the Church is not transforming the culture around her, then the culture around her is transforming the Church” (Empires of Dirt, p. 225).
Jesus Values, Not Traditional Values
“This is why Christians can’t fight this on the basis of ‘traditional values.’ The sexual traditions of humanity, considered apart from God’s Word, have contained way too many child brides, harems, serial polygamists, and concubines to provide us with the appropriate guidance here” (Empires of Dirt, p. 223).
Baptizing Koalas
“They see their objects always near, never in the horizon.”—Hazlitt Here is the presenting problem. How is it possible for corporate entities (colleges, seminaries, denominations, publishing houses, etc.) to go bad when they have so many good people in them throughout the entire process of going bad? When the liberals captured the mainline Presbyterian church, …
He Who Says A Must Say B
“These marriage ‘reforms’ clearly have not solved the problem of the bisexuals. With our arbitrary limitation of marital status to two and only two people, we are plainly telling the bisexual that he must choose between a heterosexual marriage or a homosexual marriage, but that he can’t do both. ‘But I am both!’ he wails …