Theology That Bites Back
So one small postscript from my “No Quarter November” remains necessary. I did want to share with you all that my month-long adventure in blogging without brakes did garner me a visit from the FBI. It was not as exciting as it sounds, but it was noteworthy, and worthy of a few follow-up observations. dav …
“True catholicity begins with defining catholicity” (Papa Don’t Pope, p. x).
Emeth and All: I once listened to a liberal preacher from a liberal denomination expound on John 14:6 and point to the “conclusion” that we cannot say Jesus meant belief involving conscious awareness is required to come to the Father through Him. He would not quite say that is not, he just questioned it in …
“We do not live in a post-Christian America. We live in a post-resurrection America, and there is nothing whatever that can be done to reverse that” (Same Sex Mirage, p. 259).
“Losing does not disturb us; it does not unsettle our faith. This is something the Church generally does really well. Speaking frankly, we frequently lose successfully far more often than we succeed successfully. Losing is our secret weapon” (Same Sex Mirage, pp. 258-259).
“Either same-sex unions will once again be rejected by all fifty states, with homosexuality therefore returning to the closet, or, second, your decision will stand in all fifty states, and the faithful church in America will go off-grid and underground in various ways, with all that implies, or, third, the Union will come apart ” …
Introduction: Conservative believers have been outmaneuvered in the culture wars so many times that you would think we would be able to anticipate by now when it is about to happen again. As I have said many times, this culture war is actually a lexical war, a battle over control of the dictionary. And so …
There are many reasons C.S. Lewis has been a prophet for our time, but one of the central ones was his hatred of relativistic subjectivism. He did this by according right reason its proper place in the pursuit of truth, a place of final authority, and without abandoning the rich fields of the imagination. In …
Kurt Schlichter is an abrasive, profane, and very funny writer, and in this book he gives us a play-by-play breakdown of what (the hell) happened in the 2016 presidential election. If you want to understand how all the monkeys got out of all their respective cages, then this book, Militant Normals, will be a tremendous …
