The Southern Poverty Law Center, the world’s richest civil rights organization, has devoted a recent Hatewatch article to humble moi. The logo for Hatewatch is, appropriately, what looks like an eyeball peeping through somebody’s keyhole. It is probably the keyhole to your bedroom, and they are just making sure the government stays out of it. …
Swimming to Hawaii
The current health care debate fiasco illustrates why nothing whatever can be done about America’s death spiral apart from a profound reformation of doctrine, life and morals. And that will not happen unless a whole lot of preachers are moved by the Holy Spirit to start preaching differently than they currently do. I have said …
The Prophet Obama
As you can see in the previous post, I appeared this morning on Fox News and, completely independent of my brief interaction with Christopher Hitchens there, was pleased to have done my small part for our First Amendment freedoms, appearing on a network that the president is actually trying to shut out of the political …
Like a Diseased Custard
Think about this for a minute. I was heartened to see Sarah Palin’s endorsement of Doug Hoffman, the Conservative Party nominee in an interesting three-way congressional race in upstate New York. One of the reasons for supporting this race of Hoffman’s is that The Huffington Post called his public supporters a “traveling freak show of …
Protesting Too Much
In my earlier post on Porn as Liturgical Corruption, I described a process whereby a minister who has a private problem with porn makes more and more room for his own compromises in his preaching. This is of course one response, but there are others. One commenter asked about such a man, one whose opposition …
Porn as Liturgical Corruption
This is just a short sketch of something that requires much fuller treatment. On top of that, this is a statement about just one aspect of this problem, and not an attempt to minimize the other problems that might be in play. Pastors are usually husbands as well, and this means that when a pastor …
Bottle Blondisity
Modern evangelicalism is a day-old doughnut, but this may require further explanation. We flatter ourselves by saying that evangelicalism is over here doing its thing, and American culture is over there marching to a different drummer entirely. If we are convicted by our sins and inconsistencies, we like to think that they are self-contained sins …
A Big Misunderstanding?
There is a new evangelical group blog that looks pretty lively, and which also looks like a good addition to the fray. HT: Justin Taylor It was there, however, that Jared Wilson wrote a bit on why the culture war will go to hell. He gave ten reasons that I would like to interact with …
Song of Songs Conference in the UK
For any of our friends near the northern part of London, you may want to check this out.
Cheering for the Cowpie Channel
I have said before that I find Sean Hannity barely tolerable. Whenever I see him, which is rarely, Bill O’Reilly provides an ongoing trial of the purity of my sanctification. And I have only seen Glenn Beck for a few minutes in YouTube clips, but that man is clearly a histrionic specimen of the first …