Dear Gavin, Thanks for your quick reply. I really think this exchange is going to be fruitful. At least I hope so. In my last letter, I warned that it was possible that you were going to ...
What a Father Could Have Taught
Epistolary Content Incoming
Letter to the Editor: Re: the feasible and strategic target of no porn in school libraries. This article from Prufrock has some very good data. Encourages me to make a request, because ...
Invisible and Eschatological
“Exactly. The entire company of the elect, the whole number of them, invisible now to everyone but God alone, will be made manifest to everyone at the eschaton, and that church will be without spot or wrinkle or any other blemish. And that eschatological church I define as the ‘whole number of the elect.’”
The Case of Owen and the Memorials
Introduction: In a talk at the G3 conference last week, Owen Strachan attempted to take a bold stand, and it did not go well for him. He said, in a “here I stand” sort of way, that God’s love ...
That Little Knob on the Back
Introduction: We are certainly living in interesting times, as the old Chinese curse puts it. On a related point, the great lexicographer Samuel Johnson once said that there was one good thing about being hanged in a fortnight—he said it concentrated the mind wonderfully. Over the last few years, a number of events have caught …
Just Curious
FV Haiku
“Big books full of words,
Blogs earnestly publishing
Their crinkum crankum.”
A Florilegium of Prudential Observations, Gathered from My Own Head, Concerning the Propriety of Theocratic Blasphemy Laws
Introduction: Over the last week or so a discussion broke out over my contention in Mere Christendom that while blasphemy laws are inescapable, and that while Christians should be laboring to see ...
A Solemn Duty
“As the pressure to expand our ecumenical cooking increases, there needs to be an assistant to the prophet (me), looking over the rim of the kettle in which we are cooking our ecumenical stew, whose job it is to cry out, ‘There is death in the pot!’”
Letters Bring Out the Best in Us
Letter to the Editor: Do Trump's recent comments jive with smash mouth incrementalism? If so, how so? AW -- Doug responds: AW, it depends on what you mean. If you are ...