“We want to be careful that we don’t participate in an unseemly scramble for the big names to adorn our position, as though theology were a particular kind of shaving cream that needs a second baseman for the Yankees to endorse it” (Writers to Read, p. 66).
On Wearing the Zeitgeist’s Demento-Hat
Everybody is making a big deal out of the fact that Hillary, if elected, would be the first woman president. Have we not grown beyond this yet? It is evident on the face of it that, if elected, she would only be the first known woman president. What matters is self-identification, right? And out of …
Sort of a Trade Off
Not Wowsers at All
“We are victims of anachronistic slander if we think that the Puritans were in any way, well, puritanical. That term came to be applied to the bluenoses and wowsers well after the Puritan party had brought back into Christian discipleship an incarnational embrace of all material things” (Writers to Read, pp. 65-66).
Like a Seed
“Every culture has a religious center, and every religion, like a seed, given water, sunlight, and nutrients, grows up into a particular plant” (Writers to Read, p. 62).
Bringing a Feather Duster to a Gun Fight
So here is the situation. Richard Swinburne was invited to give a talk at the Society of Christian Philosophers. His topic, on which he had previously published, was to defend the biblical and traditional view of human sexuality. Because his talk offended some, the SCP apologized for any harm done by the talk. And here …
How BLM Is Becoming “Black Lynch Mobs”
Two recent shootings of black men, one in Tulsa and one in Charlotte, have set off another round of racial turmoil, not to mention another round of Orwellian news and news analysis. So let us begin with some basic definitions. Protesters are those who assemble peaceably to register their views on something, or their insistence …
On Its Own Level
[About Wodehouse] “In this age of instant gratification, fast food, fast-lane commuting, and tele-right-nowing, it is wonderful to find great literature that is capable of doing exactly the same thing. Some great lit just competes with other great lit. But it takes extraordinary lit to compete with drivel—and on its own level, too” (Writers to …
Some Exotic Basque Cheese
So Ted Cruz has outlined his reasons for reversing course and endorsing Donald Trump. The first reason, he said, was that he had pledged to support the nominee and that he was going to do so. A little late, but he is doing so. We may now take a moment here to wait for those …
And Soon to be Pope
“For we are not just doing battle with the powers of darkness; we are also engaged in mortal conflict with the theology of Madeline Bassett, resident theologian and high priestess of pop evangelicalism” (Writers to Read, p. 57).