Given how many institutions have been going the squish route on all matters homosexual, it is perhaps understandable that Pulpit & Pen took us to task over the fact that Andrew Klavan is speaking for our Called conference next week. Called is hosted by New St. Andrews, and is a Christian worldview conference that we …
Love Bestows Loveliness
“If we love the Church as she now is, we will love her into the Church that has been promised us” (Mere Fundamentalism, p. 105).
A Basic Hope
“The future is necessarily Christian” (Mere Fundamentalism, p. 100).
Sometimes the Answer is Obvious
On Fourth Thought . . .
Every citizen who fears God ought to have room in his heart for both a patriotic stream and a prophetic stream. The patriotic stream is just what it sounds like, which is to say natural affection for the good things God has given us through our nation and people. The prophetic stream recognizes the ways …
Quicksilver Life
“He has set immortal life loose in the world, resurrection life loose in the world, divine life loose in the world. It can be smashed, but like quicksilver it scatters everywhere. And when it has been scattered everywhere, it begins to grow and multiply from there” (Mere Fundamentalism, p. 96).
Normal Rockwell
The butterfly flits on wings of gold,The June bug wings of flame,The bed bug has no wings at all,But gets there just the same. American folk song Nonsense literature has a long and storied history—I’m looking at you, Jabberwock—and then there’s Edward Lear who, had he not been a Brit, could have been a great …
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Ineffable Wisdom
“In a world filled with death and corruption, the Holy Spirit hovers over the face of the sewage lagoon, brooding on the face of the waters. And there, in the midst of all that death, He introduces life” (Mere Fundamentalism, p. 95).
Believe It or Not, More Leggings Letters
Happy Fourth!: I prefer to say “these united States,” emphasizing both the plurality and the preeminence of the States over the Federation. And thank you so much for that passing nod to our federation. I wonder many times if it might be proper to regain that “Federal Vision” once more, only in a different vein… …
The Immobile Moderate
So I would not describe myself as a radical conservative. It would be more accurate to say, as I did recently on Twitter, that I am not a radical conservative, but rather a moderate who failed to move with the times. And failure to move with the times is a mortal sin these days. You …
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