Theology That Bites Back
Introduction: About a week ago, Al Mohler released a report on Southern Seminary with an accompanying letter. That letter (which has a link to the report itself) can be found here. And then also, if you want to read about the inevitable consequences of this, the utterly predictable howls of “that’s not nearly good enough, …
“The end result is that evangelical men, taking one thing with another, are gayer than a pope tweet . . . The problem we are discussing is evangelical men who do not know what gentleness is. The do not know what men are for. They do not understand how tenderness is supposed to work” (Same …
“The totalitarian left has no brakes on their agenda.They have no internal principle that allows them to say ‘thus far and no farther.’ And since they can’t consistently say that, they won’t say that” (Same Sex Mirage, p. 225).
Justice & Injustice: I recently read A Justice Primer in conjunction with a couple weeks of leading a study of biblical justice in a Bible study. One question that came up was from my wife, who is a victim of childhood sexual abuse. By their very nature, crimes of abuse are carried out in secret. …
“I don’t think anyone should stand anywhere near the Memory Hole—it is the entry way to the Bottomless Pit . . . Like Nebuchadnezzar’s men, it is pretty easy to fall in when you are throwing things” (Same Sex Mirage, p. 224).
Introduction: One of the things revealed by our ongoing debate over the business of “same sex attraction” (SSA) is the fact that we are focusing almost entirely on the wrong issues. We are examining and measuring tremors on the surface when we should be tracking the massive shifts that are taking place with the tectonic …
“I write this on the very day the Extreme Court just jumped into a variation on this foolishness, mandating four-sided triangles in all fifty states, bringing much relief to the beleaguered trans-Euclidian community” (Same Sex Mirage, pp. 222-223).
Introduction: So by all our reckoning, November was a success. What I thought I would do here is report back to you on a few of the relevant stats, in order to evaluate things by that metric, and then spend a few additional moments on the only metric that ultimately matters. The Crowd That Came: …
