“Honoring our parents (and ancestors) does not need to reduce to mere tribalism. Loving and nourishing our distant children is not superstition” (Writers to Read, p. 71).
Shinedown Features Hound of Heaven
So above is a new video from Shinedown, a video that throughout weaves clips from the now-released short film The Hound of Heaven. Billboard has some backstory on how all that happened. And here is the trailer for the film, which is now available for purchase and viewing in various places, among them iTunes and …
Which Is a Weak Spot in the Resume
“If I worship the true God, then I am worshiping the Ancient of Days, the eternal God. But if I worship any created thing whatsoever, I am serving something that used to be nothing” (Writers to Read, p. 69, HT: Tim Edwards).
R. Scott Clark Made Me Do It
Scott Clark achieved a personal milestone this last week. He set the stage for this accomplishment by tweeting that “conspiracy theories are the fruit of intellectual sloth,” which is true enough. But just one hour before this, he had posted kudos (“great work”) to one of our local—let’s not call it a hate site, for …
Book of the Month/October 2016
The Unseen Realm is a true resource, but it is the kind of resource that you are likely to read clean through, and then read through some other time, and then keep it nearby in order to refresh your memory on this or that. Too many contemporary Christians are modernists when it comes to their …
The Truth Has Preachers, Not Sponsors
“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).