Different Kinds of Flies

I recently wrote a piece on marriage and sexuality that included this: “12. What is the most important word in the marriage vows? In our time, because of the peculiar form our disobedience has taken, the most important word is obey. And it is the most important word whether or not it is included in …

A Chiastic Catechism on Biblical Sexuality

NB: This is a little something written for a forthcoming book from Canon called How to Exasperate Your Wife. Here are 25 questions, along with some suggested answers. 1. What is the first challenge of biblical masculinity? To have enough of it to be willing to articulate what it is in public. 2. Is not …

The Biggest Donut Hole of All

Radical Muslims are quite energetic in their blasphemies. They want their blasphemies to come across as blasphemies. Like a toddler in the middle of an epic meltdown, they know what they want and they know how to get it. Secularists are quite tepid in their blasphemies. I mean, cartoons? But immediately I must correct myself. …

Down at the Pool Hall

Warfield’s little book The Plan of Salvation is one of the few books that I have read three times. The first time was in 1988 when I was first becoming a Calvinist, and it was no doubt part of that bumpy but wonderful process. I read it again the next year. I read it a …