Now I know that I have some Roman Catholics readers of this blog, and I know that when I get on a jag like this you must feel like I do when I read Chesterton writing about Calvinism. That feeling being an approximation of something like epistemic anguish and head-wrenching, I can only assure you …
Do All Speak in Tongues?
“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) The Basket Case Chronicles #152 “Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? are all workers of miracles? Have all the gifts of healing? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret?” (1 Cor. 12:29–30). Paul is bringing his extended analogy in …
Some Doctrinal Triage
Okay, one last follow-up post to the Future of Protestantism discussion. Again, I am grateful for the entire discussion, and to the folks who arranged it, and also grateful for the opportunity to participate here in the nickel seats — even if the only thing I do is throw a little popcorn. Most of what …
Two Cheers for Tribalism
I initially thought I was going to post just a couple of times on The Future of Protestantism, but as I wrote, the thing grew on me. So look for at least one more after this one. This particular set of concerns involves the matter of tribes and tribalism. I think we have to be …
The Glory of Giant Killing
Introduction We have concluded the main narrative of Samuel, and have now come to an a-chronological coda, tying up some loose ends from the David story. The fact that the “appendix” is deliberately thought through can we see in the fact that the coda is a chiasm. That chiasm is straightforward—we have A. deliverance from …
Liturgy and Architecture as a Christian Woman
We have already seen that simplicity in worship (and in architecture) cannot be contrasted with beauty, as though it were an alternative to it. Simplicity is an aesthetic trait, and those who think that a building or a liturgy is automatically beautiful because it is complicated, with the maximum number of gold filigrees on it, …
A Table Setting of Faith, Hope and Love
We come to this Table and find that it has been set in faith, hope, and love. We come in faith because God has promised to meet us here, and we believe Him. The entire worship service crescendos at this meal. God has been present with us all along, but He is present in a …
Keeping the Cathedral
I was not a player in the live stream experience of The Future of Protestantism, but had a chance to finish watching it today. My views are best described as an amalgam of the best from each of the gentlemen there — Trueman’s confessionalism, Sanders’ loyalty to the evangelical center, and Leithart’s postmillennialism. In cases …
So Don’t Get Too Grammary
“Correct habits may be formed, and right principles comprehended, without books of grammar, but more rapidly and surely with them, provided we use them only as helps, and aim to go deeper than they can carry us” (Broadus, Preparation and Delivery, p. 328).
The IT Guy
“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) The Basket Case Chronicles #151 “And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues” (1 Cor. 12:28). When Paul gives a list of spiritual gifts, as …