Theology That Bites Back
Introduction: One of the things that is fueling our current cultural turmoil is our failure to agree on what constitutes blasphemy. We have gotten to the point where everyone is reacting to ...
“The prose read like it had been written by the archangel Gabriel—when the muse was on him, when he was writing hot, and was going real good”
Ecochondriacs, p. 31
Letter to the Editor: Superb post on envy as one of the big sources of the darkness of this present world system. One of the things about believing that Christ died for my sin is that I have ...
“The man sitting in front of him was a total unit, like two or three Navy SEALS packed into one. Moreover, he looked like a logger, the kind that could walk out of the woods with a tree under each arm”
Ecochondriacs, p. 31
Introduction: I want you to work with me on a thought experiment, and it is a thought experiment with two constituent parts. Weighed rightly, this leads naturally to a consideration of real gospel, permeated throughout with real grace. The first thing is that with this imaginary humanity that I am about to construct—in the second …
“He was a hard case, with a straight-line edge, but not a sociopath. That said, if he ever got bitten by a diamondback, the snake would be the one that died”
Ecochondriacs, p. 30
“He, like they, talked a serious game, for the future of the planet was at stake, and he, like they, was more or less a lummox, an oaf, and a simpleton”
Ecochondriacs, pp. 26-27
“But their problem was that no matter how many Pottery Barn windows they smashed, their fathers were still important figures in their respective chambers of commerce. The thing seem insoluble”
Ecochondriacs, p. 26
Introduction: Hardness of heart is a sophomoric sin. And by saying this, I am saying that hardness of heart knows how to argue in the direction of what seems to be its own interests. Those arguments ...
