C.S. Lewis observes somewhere that there are two different motivations for spreading the political power as thinly as possible. The first is the motive of the sunny democrat, one who believes that man is the repository of wisdom, and that before we do anything of a civic nature, we ought to check in with as …
George Grant in Spokane
Here is something for all our friends in the Spokane area. My friend Dr. George Grant will be speaking there on Thursday, October 9. You all are invited to come hear him as he inspires those involved in the trenches of Christian education through the story of Jan Amos Comenius. For more information click here The Oaks Classical Christian Academy …
Prayer is Not for His Information
“God knows everything already. He is the source of everything already. The reason we pray to Him is that He wants us to learn this” (From To You and Your Children, p. 198).
Book of the Month/October 2014
Hunter Baker does very good work. This new book is called The System Has a Soul. His earlier book The End of Secularism was really worthwhile, and now he is out and about with this collection of essays on similar and related themes. Secularism is completely bankrupt, and the more people we can get to …
So Is the Bottomless Pit
Few things are as potentially as dodgy as deep Trinitarian theology in a postmodern age. Now Trinitarian theology really is deep, and no one should contest that. Only the Spirit can search out the deep things of God (1 Cor. 2:10). But in a postmodern age, the cat sat on the mat is also deep, …
Decline the Benefits First
Using Government Subsidies For Our Own Gain from Canon Wired on Vimeo.
The Problem of Tiffany Sugartoes
Scripture refers to that kind of ruler who frames “mischief with a law” (Ps. 94:20). Those who do this kind of thing are men who sit on thrones of iniquity, and God refuses His fellowship with any such thrones. There are many ways to frame mischief with a law. Everyone grants that one example would …
When Faithfulness is Visible
“Sara appropriated the blessing of the promise through faith. Her faith consisted precisely of this — “she judged him faithful who had promised.” So this then is faith; faith is the natural response to the perceived faithfulness of God. Faith is “judging Him faithful” . . . A man with wobbly faith can get on …
Please Overlook the Product Placement
Ask Doug: Were Tolkien & Chesterton Saved? from Canon Wired on Vimeo.
Property and Love for the Poor
I have written a great deal on how the framework provided by biblical ethics honors and preserves the institution of private property. The argument is not complex. Just as “thou shalt not commit adultery” presupposes and honors the institution of marriage, so also “thou shalt not steal” presupposes and honors the institution of private property. …