Good Jokes Often Have Poor Theology
Or Blood Moon
“To change the image, we have been like the boy in Aesop who cried Antichrist too many times.”
The Cultural Mind, p. 211
NQNQ, RBI Stats, MVP, and the Expansion of NATO
Introduction: Actually, this is not about NATO at all. One of our post-November traditions is to give you all a peek at some of what was happening behind the scenes during the jollity that we have come to know as November. NQNQ: So this was our quinquennial year of doing this November thing. That’s a …
A Brief Introductory Glossary on the Relationship of Christians and Jews
Introduction: At a recent meeting of Knox Presbytery (CREC), we adopted two short statements on ethnic issues. These statements reflect the position of our presbytery, and were entered accordingly into our minutes. The first passed unanimously, and the second with one dissenting vote—and that was only because he believed the second one was redundant, having …
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Snowy Letters for a Snowy Day
Letter to the Editor: Re: Two Corrections Could not the unicorn in Job be the following: Elasmotherium AKA “Siberian unicorn”? Ian -- Doug responds: Ian, yes, that ...
In Which C.S. Lewis Wants Some Punks to Get Off His Lawn
Introduction: I recently worked through all of C.S. Lewis's short essays again, and as a consequence read his piece "Delinquents in the Snow" yet one more time. He wrote this piece after some ...
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Make It Even Clearer
“And this is why we now see the foolishness of dating things BCE (before the common era) instead of BC (before Christ), and CE (common era) instead of AD (anno Domini). Christian writers ought to fight with their editors for AD, and if they lose, they should then tell everyone that CE means ‘Christ’s Empire.’”
The Cultural Mind, p. 210
Just a Suggestion . . .
Deep Assumptions
“We rarely notice our bones, and consequently, we rarely notice what is in them.”
The Cultural Mind, p. 209
Because We Are Conceited
“We are amazed that doctors used to bleed their patients. But we then assume, as a rigid point of dogma, that we are doing nothing comparable. We believe, without reflection, that no on in the future will be amazed and appalled at what we are doing today.”
The Cultural Mind, p. 208