“Picture our various theologies of this folly on Christmas morning. If you open a gift and churlishly refuse to thank the giver of it, then—in our little illustration—you are an atheist. But how, in this regard, is it better to be the pietist and to smash the gift to pieces ‘lest it tempt you away …
And I Will Take My Ultimate on the Side
I want to write about religious liberty, and in order to do that I must first address the myth of neutrality. But I don’t really want to address the myth of neutrality, but rather the demented, off-the-chain, sociopathic, deranged, vacuous, and sure-to-let-you-down-later-today opium dream of neutrality. Neutrality is, like, not a thing. It does not …
Write What You Know
For Skies Kind of Bland
“One of the impulses that overscrupulous pietists have is that of trying to ‘thin out the world’ so that we won’t be as tempted to idolatry by it. But the problem with this procedure is that it never works. We can fall into idolatry with our airy abstractions as much as we do with a …
Book of the Month/December 2016
Most of the books I select for my “book of the month” pick are not titles from Canon Press. Now I know that I have lost my treasure in Heaven even for mentioning this, but I still thought it should be pointed out. It is also the case that I don’t generally pick books written …
Because the Sauce Goes on Everything
“The central point of the food is not what you are eating but rather who you are eating it with – but don’t mistake the point here. That does not make the taste of the food, or the care that goes into its preparation, irrelevant. Far from it. A good sauce accents the taste of …
To Join Us In Our Sorrow
“We continue to prepare ourselves for the celebration of one of the most monumental events of all world history – the time when the Second Person of the Creator God assumed a human body in the womb of a virgin, in order to join us in our sorrow, and to deliver us from it” (God …
Texts and Timing
I have been in the thick of the classical Christian school movement from the very start of it, and I like to think I have been around. I have been to all the ACCS conferences. I have browsed more vendor tables than Carter’s got pills. I have visited numerous classical Christian schools, both the start-ups …
An Unhappy Lot
“He does not eat ‘low’ because he has no awareness of what he is doing, like the fellow who has only ten taste buds for every square inch of his tongue and struggles to determine the difference between hot and cold” (Writers to Read, p. 117).
Born to be Mild
Let me tell you a secret. I want to explain to you what it takes to be a bad boy in a relativistic age. A bad boy is one I define as a man who appears to disregard certain basic societal rules. Back when society had standards, the bad boy was the motorcycle gang leader …