Theology That Bites Back
Dear Dawson, I am glad your friend Lauren has agreed to go out with you again. Making it past the third date is a milestone. But you are still getting to know her, and she is getting to know you, and so you are both still navigating what can be a pretty treacherous path. Her …
“So put on Christ (Rom. 13:14; Gal. 3:47). Put on your Jesus coat. And make sure you put your arms through both sleeves.”
Gashmu Saith It, p. 43
Letter to the Editor: In the last line of the postscript to Worser and Worser you wrote: "I have sometimes thought—and why not admit it?—that I am despised in so many corners of effete ...
Introduction: @BonifaceOption recently said something that really needs to be carved into marble, and then memorized by your children, and then embroidered on all your cushions, and then tattooed on the insides of your eyelids. This is what he said: “This is the thing: they cannot stop people who are truly having fun.”@BonifaceOption The picture …
“The family is the ministry of health, education and welfare. The Church is the ministry of grace and peace. The civil magistrate is the ministry of justice. But the (non-institutional) government that supports and makes possible all three of these is self-government.”
Gashmu Saith It, pp. 42-43
“We like to describe self-controlled people as ‘unemotional,’ but what we really mean is that their emotions are not half-civilized yard apes on a sugar rush.”
Gashmu Saith It, p. 41
“In a biblical framework, you and all your feelings are like a first-grade teacher taking her whole class to some busy downtown museum, and because she loves them, every last one of them is on a neon-colored leash.”
Gashmu Saith It, p. 40
In a recent one of my Plodcasts (discussing the possible overturning of Roe), I said that after the Supremes voted on Obergefell, a lot of pressure was applied to Kennedy, which caused him to subsequently flip. This was a howler on my part. That is what happened in Planned Parenthood v. Casey. I made that …
Dear Dawson, By this point you have probably noticed that I have been engaging in what is now called “gender stereotyping.” Perhaps you were brought up by such polite parents that you were able ...
