Theology That Bites Back
“That said, let’s break down inappropriate speech (in English) to four basic categories. These are vulgarity, obscenity, cursing, or swearing. The problem for the Platonists is that there are godly examples of all four categories found within the pages of Scripture. The problem for the libertines is that the Bible prohibits speaking in all four categories. The upshot is that we need to become far more disciplined in how we speak.”
No Such Thing as Bad Words, p. 13
Introduction: The caliber of argumentation online is something that can best be described as a gigantic smudge. There are brilliant exceptions, of course, here and there, but they tend to stand out ...
“Christians are called as parents to bring up virginal daughters, not so that we may delude ourselves into thinking that this is what we are by nature, but rather that we might understand through faith that this is what we are all becoming. Virginity and chastity among a Christian people are a glorious type, not of what we are, but of what we will be.”
Introduction: We have already considered the great threat posed by the interactive impressiveness of AI, which will be the temptation to what I called AI-dolatry. In our treatment of that ...
Letter to the Editor: Thank you, Pastor. I have had niggling questions about that piece of epic poetry as well. Would that you had begun with the Council of the Heavens, in which Satan took ...
“If you see a movie with a desolate Western town around midday, with shopkeepers peering out their windows, and tumbleweed blowing down the street, you know there is going to be a gunfight. If you see a man in an office with a ceiling fan, smoking, and a translucent pane of glass in the door, and he has his feet on the desk you know instantly that he is a private detective, and that some blonde trouble is going to come through the door. Given the motif, you know the setting. You are oriented.”
“The scarlet cord of election was transferred—from Zarah’s wrist to a prostitute’s window. This is so that we might never forget that everything God gives us is always all of grace, nothing but grace, grace to the uttermost.”
A Riot of Joy
“But when they arrived at the grave, they found they had stumbled into a glorious pandemonium—angels, an earthquake, and a risen Jesus gone missing.”
