NB: the headline may not make sense, but it rhymes. Letter to the Editor: You present via Milton one inference of the way in which Adam sinned —and the conclusions you make I believe ...
April Letters Bring May Debtors
Feed My Lambs
“I agree that the fact that we baptize infants does not obligate us to allow them to vote in church elections, or drive the bus to the family retreat. But what we are talking about, with regard to the Table, is food. All children who come into our households should have the privilege of food.”
The Auburn Avenue Chronicles Vol. 2, p. 647
Guards or Bouncers?
“All pastors and elders should want to protect the Table from corrupt use, but we should do so a posteriori. The approach to church purity taken here is that of hiring big, beefy security guards at the door to check everyone’s IDs three times. The approach taken to church purity by what I take to be a more consistent covenantal approach is to hire big, beefy bouncers.”
The Auburn Avenue Chronicles Vol. 2, p. 644
Yes, Well, There’s Always That
Which Is Unpleasant
“Being prosecuted by sentimentalist pietists is like drowning in a cauldron of hot butterscotch”
The Auburn Avenue Chronicles Vol. 2, p. 634
Nothing Ad-Libbed
“The problem with this is that synergism is frequently used by people who want God to do 90 percent, and we do the remaining 10. He carries one end of the heavy object, and we carry the other end. This is not a Calvinistic understanding at all. In Calvinistic synergy, God does one hundred percent, and I do the other one hundred percent. Shakespeare writes one hundred percent of Hamlet’s lines, and Hamlet speaks one hundred percent of Hamlet’s lines. The wrong kind of synergy has Shakespeare writing the plot of Hamlet’s life, with Hamlet ad-libbing his way through it.”
The Auburn Avenue Chronicles Vol. 2, p. 625
Letter Writers Helping Out the Letter Readers
Letter to the Editor: Just a question, if I may. In a recent post entitled, "Classical Charter Schools as a Cut Flowers Display," You mention a quote from Peter Berger..."you should ...
Lig Duncan and that Infamous Clip Making the Rounds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXnwKgzXy8o Introduction: I was going to be doing a bit of traveling, and so last week I wrote and recorded a few of my blog posts prior to departure. That was ...
Jews and the Measure You Use
Dear Gavin, I know that we have been talking primarily about whites and blacks, but I want to change the subject, moving over to the Jews for just a moment. This is only an apparent change of ...
Because Covenants Matter
“An adulterer is really married—that’s in part what makes him an adulterer. A faithful husband is really married too, but there is far more to the story than the two of them being ‘really married.’”
The Auburn Avenue Chronicles Vol. 2, p. 620