Theology That Bites Back
Introduction: A couple years ago, I wrote a post entitled The 9 Pitfalls of Homeschooling. At that time, in a fine display of even-handedness, I promised that there would be a follow up post outlining the pitfalls of Christian schools. I said: “Please allow me to say that there will be a follow-up and parallel …
“There is a vast mountain of teaching and conflicting voices to sort through, and one thing the magisterium has not done is give us a table of contents to identify the precise boundaries of that magisterium. Where can I go and get a leather-bound set of all the infallible determinations of the Church?” (Papa Don’t …
You Say You Want a Revolution I apologize that this comment is somewhat removed from the article to which it is attached, but I have been considering a related question since Cuomo signed this atrocity. You may recall that toward the end of Lewis’ Perelandra, Ransom comes to the revelation that his possessed enemy, Weston, …
“But reason is an eyeball, and not a source of light. God created us with a faculty for rational weighing and sifting of evidence so that we could submit to light from outside. Every form of religion and secularism that tries to make the eyeball shed light is therefore doomed to failure” (Papa Don’t Pope, …
The meltdown that is Democratic Party politics continues apace. So what happened this last week—fueled in large measure, as you all have no doubt surmised, by Trump Derangement Syndrome—was something like this. In anticipation of Trump possibly getting a third Supreme Court appointment in his first term, certain states like New York and Virginia have …
The Abolition of Man: Okay, I should probably acknowledge something right at the front end of this short review. And that is that I have read The Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis at least nine times, and I have quoted from it times without number. It is one of my “go to” books, and …
“‘Brethren! These divisions are disgraceful! Our proposal for eliminating them is for everyone to stop being obstinate and join us!’” (Papa Don’t Pope, p. 54).
Introduction: We have now stumbled into our third in a series of four lectures, I trust somewhat happily. The first was entitled An Inescapable Burden of Glory, as you no doubt recall, and it addressed the necessity that God has placed upon all of us, and within each of us—that of seeking glory somehow, somewhere. …
“The day is coming when certain Christian communions, bobbing around in their own little boat, will stop claiming that the water exists for their boat only” (Papa Don’t Pope, p. 53).
