My friend Peter Leithart thinks the “most promising, and most peaceable” way out of our current marriage law impasse is a bill currently making its way through the Alabama legislature. “SB377 would remove the duty of confirming marriages from county probate judges and allow marriages to be recorded by the state after filing a simple …
A Reservoir of Blood Guilt
“According to Scripture, blood is something that returns to those who shed it. It also returns to the land where it was shed. And our vast reservoir of guilt is larger and deeper than it has ever been. The only blood that does not return with compounded guilt is the blood of Jesus” (Rules, p. …
Arms Full of Justice Swag
In light of the recent events in Baltimore, everyone wants to have an honest conversation about race. The difficulty is that in this honest conversation about race, nobody is allowed to say anything that is true. We have gotten to the point where the simple truth is inflammatory. Now the obvious truth should be about …
Long Gone
“It is not possible to build a culture around a denial of God-given standards, and then arbitrarily reintroduce those standards at your convenience, whenever you need a word like evil to describe what has just happened. Those words cannot just be whistled up from the place where we exiled them. If we have banished them, …
A Dinghy Full of Two-Kingdom Theologians
When you write things that are kind of “out there,” as I have sometimes done, you do have to explain different aspects of the situation from time to time. Consider this is one such attempt. First, let’s deal with the optical illusion of “out there.” The situation was first created when a bunch of us …
Fix Me Already
Elsie Dinsmore With a Beard
Update: Those who wish to help the Kleins may still do so here. So I explained in a previous post how the homo-jihadis had successfully spiked my guns for a week or thereabouts. In response to my musings on this topic — which was of some interest to me, I will admit — one Christian …
Christian Kid Lit
Here is a quite interesting review of what’s going on in Christian kid lit from Elizabeth Bird.
How Blue the Sky Was
All right. I suppose I should explain to you all what was up with my near-week-long involuntary hiatus from blogging. There were various factors in play, but the central one was my misguided belief that I was somehow included in all that free speech business that Madison wrote about in the First Amendment. You see, …
7 Theses on Historical Loyalties
Grounded loyalty is an inescapable part of historical studies, and attempts at academic detachment are simply attempts that reveal misplaced loyalty to a guild of historians (say) instead of to (say) your nation. What I want to do here is offer seven theses that might help us approach this most helpful truth from various angles. 1. …