In a world gone crazy, it is important for us to learn how to see the root causes. I use the phrase “root causes” deliberately, because it is the kind of thing that liberals love to appeal to, whether we are talking about race riots here, or barbarity in the Middle East. But when they …
Like a Postprandial Sloth
I have to say that I didn’t expect that reaction. Courtship is a hotter/bigger topic these days than I realized. What I would like to do is throw together a series of brief responses to some of the issues raised in the comments. The results may or may not come together as a coherent post. …
Why Courtship Is Fundamentally Awed
Thomas Umstattd Jr. recently made a splash with his article “Why Courtship is Fundamentally Flawed.” To be perfectly honest, I thought a number of his points were very good, like frosted flakes in the bowl glinting in the morning light of your quiet breakfast nook. But I also thought, retaining the honesty theme here, that …
The Spirit Blows Where He Wills
“There are plenty of born again people who wouldn’t call it that, and there are plenty of evangelicals who need to get saved. Life is messy” (Against the Church, p. 175).
No High Like the Most High!
Okay, this is for all you people, like me, who need to get out more. Apparently there is this Christian rock star, Vicky Beeching, who has written worship music that lots of people sing, and who has come out of the closet as being something that rhymes with say. You can read a brief interview …
Sure Thing
Like the Grand Tetons
“I am a product of this evangelical culture. I am conversant in it and, in some ways, at home in it. But after Jimmy Carter made it okay for everybody to be ‘born again,’ North American evangelicalism exploded and became a huge mountain range of cotton candy, and of course, that kind of thing makes …
The Keystone Kops Delta Force
This past week has been a slammed one for me, and so I had gotten behind on my current events. I was vaguely aware of the fact that trouble had erupted in Ferguson, Missouri, but that was about the extent of it. Having just now gotten somewhat abreast of affairs, I wanted to make just …
The R2K Crucifix Problem
Carl Trueman recently wrote A Church for Exiles for First Things, which you may read here. If you would like, a good response from Joel McDurmon can be found here. But my response to Carl will be a tad shorter than Joel’s — just enough to register a few basic concerns. First, it is undeniable …
55 If You Are Lucky
“The long and winding road between now and the Last Day is thousands of miles long, but it is a road down which no living man will be able to kick any cans farther than fifty yards” (Against the Church, p. 164).