Theology That Bites Back
If you are a word geek, as I am afraid that I am, you like to read books written by word geeks. This happened to me again recently, and I thought I should tell you about it. This book is by John McWhorter, a professor at Columbia, and is called Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue. As …
“There are often occasions for many to trot out that apocryphal Luther quote about preferring to be governed by a wise Turk than a foolish Christian. Right, but what if you get a foolish Turk?”
“Secularism is the idea that it is possible for a society to function as a coherent unit without reference to God. It is the idea that a culture can operate on the basis of a metaphysical and religious agnosticism. It is the idea that we can understand what human rights are without knowing what a human being actually is.”
Mere Christendom, p. 3
“Great Father in Heaven, I ask You this morning,
For Your gospel declared, straight up declared,
And that Your people would hear and receive it
As the true gospel, straight into their hearts.”
21 Prayers, p. 97
In what has become something of a tradition here in Moscow, tomorrow night will see yet another Dad’s Band concert. The evening is filled with covers from the classic rock era, and and there will be lots of fun for the whole family, and harmonic loudness. This is where I would usually embed the promo …
I Meant to Do That: What Could Go Wrong?: A Song I Really Like for Some Reason: Quote from the Archives: For Additional Emphasis“The previous three pastors had been there for about a year and a half each, and the last of the three had been the kind of fellow who typed long doctrinal screeds …
“Grant us right now the revival of ages—
Just nod Your head, and it will be done.
Just nod Your head, and it is done for Your now.
All it would take from You is a word.
I pray that Your Spirit would fall down upon us
From unlikely directions, from every direction.
Surprise us, I ask. Upend us, I pray.
Completely undo us, and remake us all over . . .
Build a great church here, a tower of grace,
With thousands upon thousands of stones that are living.”
21 Prayers, p. 93
“I argue here for a principled abandonment of the disastrous experiment of secularism, and for a corporate confession of the fact that Jesus rose from the dead, and all done in such a way as to preserve and protect our liberties.”
Mere Christendom, p. xi
Introduction: Back in the day, 1970 to be precise, a gent named Gil Scott-Heron released a spoken-word piece with the title that I referenced above—The Revolution Will Not Be Televised. The phrase ...
