Letter to the Editor: What with the recent Dave Chappelle bit on SNL, you sure picked the wrong week to mock people who've (((noticed))). Like the man said: 'When it's blacks, it's ...
Mid November Letters, With a Chance of Rain
My 360° Whiteness Review
Introduction: While some might want me to begin today's installment by avowing that the November goal is not to attack everybody—as though I were trying to start a Reformed version of Festivus ...
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Standing on the X
“The point here is not that modern evangelicalism is sick, but rather that it is the sickness. And what is the name of the sickness? The name is unbelief, and the apostle warned that it is by faith that we stand. We do not support the root, but rather the root supports us.”
The Cultural Mind, p. 178
Ignore the Distraction
Fashions and Fads
“Nothing has proven to be more irrelevant than the liberal lust for relevance.”
The Cultural Mind, p. 178
Pattern Recognition Failure
“So many churches, denominations, parachurch ministries, mission agencies, and publishing houses have drifted into unbelief and liberalism that one would think that we should know what it looks like by now. But Solomon’s words still ring true. Fools receiving an inheritance from the past do not think to inquire whether or not they are being fools. Every morning is a new day to them, and they see no need to cling to all those dry and dusty lessons from the day before. They just take the valuables, shake the dust of wisdom off them, and head down to the pawn shop.”
The Cultural Mind, pp. 177-178
Red, Red Whine
Introduction: So this is a time when good writers reach into their tool chest in order to trot out a phrase like "much ballyhooed." The much ballyhooed red wave has hit the beach. It was not ...
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Letters Come and Go, But Mostly Come
Letter to the Editor: Thank you for writing this particular blog topic. The subject is one of the myriad of topics that most churches seem unwilling to confront openly. As a woman, I understand ...
Horse and Cart
“In Paul’s theology, grace and works do not mix at all—otherwise, grace would no longer be grace. At the same time, Paul teaches that grace works . . . We are not saved in any way by good works, but we are necessarily saved to good works.”
The Cultural Mind, p. 174
Tenured Historians of the Golden Calf
Introduction: If a man were to undertake a proof that triangles had three sides, and he was making heavy weather in getting his point across, there would be several possibilities that we would need ...
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