“While the Renaissance careened after the image, the Reformation became a predominately word-based movement . . . the real religious fervor and intellectual power pulled to the north, so that England, Scandinavia, and Germany became the realm of the word, and the south returned to spectacle” (Arthur Hunt, The Vanishing Word, p. 78).
What Is Marriage?
“A common error among Christians holds that if the sexual act is completed, then the couple are married ‘in God’s sight.’ Many destructive complications occur in contemporary culture because we have adopted the idea that people can be married in God’s sight without being married. It is hard to say where this idea originated, but …
An Epistemological Pileup
All right. As far as I can make out, our debate over Sarah Palin revolves around three distinct issues, all three of which have merged in a highly entertaining and jumbled fashion — a sort of epistemological pile-up. The first is the propriety of voting for a Republican. A large number of us (myself included) …
Speaking in London
Lord willing, I will be speaking at a conference in London this coming February. More information can be gathered here at the conference web site.
Secret Love Child of a Hot Dog Vendor
Let me start with the obvious negative. Sarah Palin thinks a whole lot more of John McCain than I do. So there’s that. And let me leave aside (but just for the moment) all the questions about a Christian mother’s roles and responsibilities. We will get to more of that in future posts. The discussion …
The Pink Longhorn Blog
Many of you know that my daughter has a line of designer skivv . . . uh, skirties, and is also willing to explain to you what skirties are exactly, and why you need them. She has just started up a blog, the better to do that with, and you can find it here.
When God Doesn”t Appear to Want to Wake Up
Last Lord’s Day the message was on Psalm 44, and you can find it here.
Fifth Decade of Psalms/Psalm 45
INTRODUCTION: Psalm 45 is an Epithalamium, which is to say, a wedding song. The way it is quoted in the New Testament makes it very clear that the ultimate fulfillment of this psalm is found in the marriage of Christ to the Church. This psalm is unlike any other, and is likely the wedding hymn …
Palin Comparison
Like many others, I will be watching Sarah Palin’s speech with great interest tonight. With that event coming up, here are just a few bits and pieces of leftover punditry that I found lying around the house here. 1. The barrage that has been unleashed against her means that the left is in a deep …
Making Karl Rove Look Like a Piker
Just to keep things interesting, we now read this. Sarah Palin and her husband were at one time members of the Alaska Independence Party, a party that stands for secession from the US of A, among other things. This story just keeps getting better and better. Why that should be controversial, I surely don’t know. …