Theology That Bites Back
Introduction: So we have a caravan consisting of thousands of refugees, heading for our southern border. What are Christians to make of this? How are we to think of such things? We do live in a world, after all, in which our Lord told the parable of the Good Samaritan . . . We also …
Enviro-Stewardship: Wow! A “toad-eating sell-out” if you claim our first vocation as gardeners implies stewardship of God’s gift of creation. Some guys get stupid around pretty girls, Pastor Wilson loses his mind when he gets around any discussion of environmental care. The careful, linear logic that I read daily at Blog & Mablog disintegrates into …
“If we can’t impose a particular morality on people who don’t share that morality, then why did you impose your morality on the bigoted restaurant owner? This is not a difficult question to understand, and I am willing to wait for an answer” (Same Sex Mirage, p. 137).
Introduction: I believe it to be generally acknowledged that I am an easy-going fellow. For example, it has been some years now, and I don’t think any one of you has seen me complaining about when we started calling babysitters caregivers. See? Go along get along. And I think that part of the reason I …
“Because we tried to eliminate the sin of racial prejudice in public spaces without grasping that central distinction [between a sin and a crime], we have ended up mandating the commission of sin in public spaces. Essaying to stamp out one sin, we have made another sin, one that is far worse than racial prejudice, …
“It is now avant-garde jazz played with the fists, but America used to play its songs in C Major” (Same Sex Mirage, p. 134).
“So, for the present, now that we are no longer in the grip of ‘anti-gay h8,’ water is commanded to flow uphill, by order of the Supreme Court, and triangles must have four sides, by order of Congress. On top of that, the president has recently signed an executive order determining that ham and cheese …
For my Idaho readers, we have a measure on the ballot coming up in a few weeks that would reboot Idaho horse racing. What shall we make of that? The measure (Prop 1) would set a minimum number for horse races, would allow betting on those races, and would allow the installation of horse-race-betting machines …
“We . . . live in a time when the social justice gimme, gimme graspers have a poorer understanding of property rights than a dog with a chew toy does” (Same Sex Mirage, p. 129).
