The Newer Approach
In This Case, Not a Compliment
“This principle is why people do things that they are willing to brazen out. People brazen it out because brazening it out works. And this is why I intend to bring up the stacked nature of the PCA committee every chance I get, for as long as I can remember to do so. Not only will I do this, but I intend to memorialize it with as many metaphors as I can manage to come up with. That committee was as stacked as a double order of buttermilks, as stacked as some blonde in a tight dress, and as stacked as a brick house. The PCA, she’s mighty, mighty.”
The Wrecking Ball of Disobedience
“‘Was eternal life for Adam conditioned upon perfect and personal obedience?’
I wouldn’t put it that way. I would rather say that avoidance of eternal death was conditioned upon not disobeying. The gift that Adam was receiving could be forfeited by disobedience but did not need to earned by continued obedience . Disobedience would wreck it, and did, but obedience wouldn’t earn it.”
Records and Radios
Dear Gavin, As promised last time, we are now going to start getting into the vexed issue of black/white relations in America. But before we can do that, I have to address something else. We have to set the stage. That “something else” is what might be called the doctrine of primitivism. This is not …
Not That Far to Go
“Those who go by the nickname TR are actually curators of the Reformed mausoleum, and not scholars in the Reformed tradition. The way we can tell this is that—in defense of keeping the marble floors of their mausoleum polished and shiny—they deploy Eck’s argument against Luther. Their blood stirs when they hear the story about Athanasius saying that he was contra museum because they really like that kind of thing when it is behind glass in the museum of church history. But when someone actually stands up against the living and breathing ecclesiastical Mitred Ones, they haul this argument out as shamelessly as a theologian who thinks he is supposed to have an infallible magisterium. And they do this against people who they say are trying to ‘lead them down the road to Rome.’ But how can you lead people to Rome when they are already there.”
Shiny New Letters for a Brand Spanking New Year
Letter to the Editor: I began reading C/A in its infancy. I was on my way oiu of Roman Catholicism. My wife and 5 young home-schooled children came with me on this journey. I learned ...
11 Resolutions for 2024, Culture War Edition
Introduction: It is a custom among our people to make resolutions for the new year, and as this is the morning of January 1, 2024, a brand spanking new year, and one that promises to be every ...
Self-Referential Steerage
“If this is the kind of reasoning that is going to be the guide for the men at the PCA helm, it will soon become apparent to the world that they are steering by the mast in front of them, and not by the North Star at all.”
As If It Needed to be Stickier
The New Perspective on Paul “is thrown in to add a little stickiness to the doctrinal taffy pull that we have going on here.”
They Can Always Fix That
