And One Day, the Memes Just Started Making Themselves . . .
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No Such Thing as Random
“Social calamities, therefore, must not be understood as ‘random bad things’—our God is a God who keeps covenant, and this necessarily includes covenant blessings and curses. And this cannot be understood apart from a diligent study of Scripture and church history up to the present.”
The Cultural Mind, p. 125
Love, Honor, and Obey
Dear Darla, So his name is Trent, is it? Lucky dog. This means that you are now going to be thinking through a number of the things I have written in the earlier letters, but now doing so in a very ...
The Hand of God in Fear
“The teaching of the Bible here is that the chaos of panic is not a response to chastisement but is part of the chastisement itself.”
The Cultural Mind, p. 124
Letters on Mabloggy Stuff
Letter to the Editor: I watched your March 4, 2013 debate with Andrew Sullivan and your March 26, 2021 advice for Christians . I grew up with the LCMS version of Christianity and still hold ...
Affection for Israel as Biblical Requirement
Introduction: This could be regarded as one of my periodic forays into the tangled thicket of "what gives with Israel?" You are to imagine it as me putting on a gray coat and blue trousers in order ...
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Though Some Might Wish Otherwise
“Even though this is America, we have no constitutional right to easy answers.”
The Cultural Mind, p. 124
Which Is Pretty Slippery
“We see the lying ways in which we handle our laws, wanting them to be as slippery as our hearts.”
The Cultural Mind, p. 121
Fight Laugh Feast/Knoxville 2022
So this coming October, I’ll be in Knoxville Tennessee at the Fight Laugh Feast Network’s third annual conference. The theme of this year’s conference is “Lies, Propaganda, Storytelling, and the Serrated Edge.” The subtitle could be “Culture War Ain’t Beanbag.” I’ll be speaking twice throughout the three-day event. On Friday night, the title of my …