Every Saturday night at our Sabbath dinner, we have a round of catechism questions for the kids. The last question, the one I ask all of them together, is “Kids, what’s the point of the whole Bible?” The answer is “Kill the dragon, get the girl!” This was the point of the biblical story before …
A Different Kind of Deplorable Word
There are a number of ways in which all the important subjects in the world are actually all about the same thing — God and man, sin and salvation. That being the case, there should be a number of ways in which the subjects that have occupied a good deal of space on this blog …
Chumming the Water
The purpose of a judicial process is not, in the first place, to side with the victim. The point of judicial process is to determine, carefully and without jumping to conclusions, who the victim is. Once the truth is established by due process, the Bible everywhere and always sides with the victim. But we live …
Exiled Nigerian Princes
Of course the homo-jihadis believe in reparative therapy. They have been doing it to America for years, and it works very well. America used to be straight, and now it is . . . very bent. In a recent display of their reparative therapy techniques, protesters have shown up to a conference on counseling held …
Just Between Us Girls
Introduction Comes now Rachel Miller, she of the quantitative analysis fame, and attempts a drive-by post at The Aquila Report. She wants to know what people like about me. This is, it must be admitted, a difficult question to answer, and so we must give it our full attention. Let us put our thinking caps …
An Olive Branch for Rod Dreher
Scripture has something to say about the unnecessary perpetuation of strife. “Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: So where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth” (Prov. 26:20). So there are two ways to deal with falsehoods that are burning off hundreds of acres. The text says you have to deal with …
This Ramshackle Heart
In the recent spate of controversies, one of the things I have mentioned trying to do, and which has caused some consternation and disbelief in some quarters, is that which Jesus says to do when we are slandered. He says to rejoice and be exceeding glad (Matt. 5:12). His followers, the Lord says, should receive …
A Sewer Ditch in Calcutta
I want to begin with a brief logic lesson, and then move to develop an important point about the biblical view of scandals. One popular logical fallacy is called affirming the consequent. It runs thusly: If P, then Q. Q is the case, and so therefore P. Ta da! If it is a cow, then …
From Where You Are
One of the things I learned about the profound nature of the redemptive work of the gospel was something I learned from my father. And he taught me this when he once said, “God takes you from where you are, not from where you should have been.” I was grateful for the opportunity to respond …
Further Response to Karen Swallow Prior
What I would like to do, Lord willing and the crik don’t rise, is respond to Karen Swallow Prior’s objection to my pretty women post in a bit more detail, and then take a moment to respond to Rachel Held Evans’ objection to the fact that Prior even engaged with me. First, I want to …