From the interview with Charles Gibson, it appears that Sarah Palin is entirely on board with John McCain’s foreign policy — a foreign policy that I am not on board with. I am not a neocon, and I have no sympathy with the broader neocon objectives, which can be described as a democratic and secular …
Barak Was a Great Warrior
One of the things revealed in many of the comments for these posts on Sarah Palin is that certain subtexts of what “every Christian knows” are quite prevalent, and they do a fine job in controlling the narratives that we try to tell or try to read. One of these is the shared assumption that …
Red State Readers
This is really cool. Amazon has a map up that shows America in its familiar red state/blue state guise, only this time the calculations are based, not on votes, but on book purchases. That map can be found here. The results are pretty surprising.
The Lipstick Affair
I have been blogging on presidential politics, and hence it is therefore mandatory that I say something about the Lipstick Affair. I will keep it brief. I watched the video clip in question, and nothing is more apparent than that Obama was not making any kind of conscious reference to Sarah Palin. It also looked …
The Creation Order and Sarah
Earlier today I had a conversation with a good friend about an underlying principle in all this talk about Sarah Palin, women in politics, Deborah as judge, and so on, and we agreed on an important principle. This is the kind of thing that should go without saying, but in these deranged times, almost nothing …
Fifth Decade of Psalms/Psalm 46
INTRODUCTION: This next psalm was one of Martin Luther’s favorites, and was the inspiration for his hymn “A Mighty Fortress.” There were plenty of times during the Reformation when everything looked pretty black, and Luther would cheerfully say to Melancthon, “Come, Philip, let us sing the forty-sixth Psalm.” We have considered the importance of dogged …
The Single File Column to Nowhere
Every politician hungry for his slice of glory likes to talk about “leadership.” Leadership is always one of the talking points, and there will always be a reference to it in the printed material. You could write one of those brochures in your sleep, right? “Experience. Integrity. Leadership.” At which point we all get out …
Sarah Palin, Candidate of Peace?
Let me begin by acknowledging that the globe is a complicated place, and that when vexing questions get insulted with answers that are too facile, then those answers should be rejected for being, um, too facile. At the same time, when certain errors (especially in economics) are almost universally embraced, the results are consistently the …
An Epithalamium for the Church
Yesterday I preached on Psalm 45, a glorious wedding poem.
Two Marks of Deliverance
The topic of Sarah Palin continues to open new vistas for discussion. I haven’t had this much fun since Al Gore started predicting the sky would fall, or whatever it is he has been predicting. Whatever it is, we’re all going to die. So let’s talk about something a bit more pleasant. All faithful Christians …