“There are people who need to have an enemy, and racial markers provide them with a handy-dandy uniform for the other side that won’t wash off.”
Skin and Blood, p. 4
Romans 13, With 13 As Lucky Number
Introduction: Last week we saw a major victory in federal court, for which we give deep thanks to God. A good news story about it can be found here, and down below I have included two press releases that will fill in a bunch of the salient details for you. What I want to do …
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When Your Middle Name is “Love Goddess”
“In the first place, there is nothing wrong with observing what used to be a pagan holiday—after all, we used to be pagans. Many of our innocent customs used to have pagan associations—the use of wedding rings, meeting someone for lunch on Thor’s Day, and blowing out the candles on a birthday cake after making a wish. We ought not to be uptight about such things. Who was Paul’s brother, companion, and fellow soldier? Why it was Epaphroditus, whose name means that he was dedicated to the pagan goddess of copulation (Phil. 2:25). Why didn’t Paul make Epaphroditus change his name? The answer is that it was not that big a deal.”
The Cultural Mind, p. 307
Caring Through Not Caring
“The man who buries his talent in the ground, after a very careful risk analysis, is the man rebuked by the ‘hard’ master. The man desperate for respect is often the one who does not receive it, while the one who strives for excellence as defined by God in heaven—he stands before kings (Prov. 22:29). In the kingdom of God, the one who would be great must become the least of all. The one who would rule must serve. The one who wants praise must not care about praise.”
The Cultural Mind, p. 303
Letters Abounding, Letters Galore, More or Less
Letter to the Editor: "There are four kinds of speech that the Scriptures forbid . . . The problem with this simplistic take is that there are also righteous scriptural examples in ...
IndigniLadies
Introduction: These things come in waves, of course. Every so often, when my adversaries think that what I am teaching is getting a little too much traction, they make yet another attempt at convincing ...
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The Right Kind of Not Caring
“Modern Christians are constantly exhorted to care. This is legitimate, indeed, it is inescapable. But the problem is that we are told regularly to care about all the wrong things. ‘If we continue to maintain that God created the world in six days, we will not be granted academic respectability.’ To which we must reply, ‘Well, who cares?’ Why should we care that the guardians of the academy believe we are not academically respectable? They believe that the moose, the sperm whale, and the meadowlark are all blood relations. Why do we want their seal of approval?”
The Cultural Mind, p. 302
Can’t Be Too Careful
No Man Has Two Masters
“When the church is unsubmissive to Christ, it becomes submissive to the world. ‘Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God’ (Jas. 4:4). Conversely to be submissive to Christ is the same thing as becoming uppity to the demands of the world.”
The Cultural Mind, pp. 299-300
Ukraine Winter Needs
It has been a while since I have posted any of the needs that our brothers and sisters in Ukraine have, and I hope to remedy that now. Let me say at the front end that all the needs I am publishing here are spiritual and humanitarian in nature. In other words, if you have …