Theology That Bites Back
Dear Darla, I alluded to this in my last letter, and I think it is time to address the art of attracting. We have covered what might attract you to him, and so now we should spend a little time on what might attract him to you. Some of what I am going to address …
Letter to the Editor: Thank you for bringing this work of Schaeffer to our attention. I haven't read him in a long time, but I will go back and read this. Prophetic in ways he couldn't ...
Introduction: We are coming up on the release of the Supreme Court decision on Dobbs. In anticipation of that decision, quite a few people are bracing for real trouble. As they ought to be. ...
“Afflicted with pretty much everything the modern church is certainly looking around for remedies. But where and how we look for these remedies remains a function of what ails us, and we are not yet desperate enough to ask for directions to the divine pharmacy.”
The Cultural Mind, p. 59
“The average Christian bookstore, which reflects accurately what we are about, is an abundant cornucopia of bushwah.”
The Cultural Mind, p. 57
Dear Darla, So let’s get down to the business of serious analysis. What are you looking for in a man? Because there is no man on the scene right now, this question of serious analysis, though you ...
“In the meantime, modernity, that once proud heresy, has visibly started to topple. Postmodernists are running around gleefully, just like looters after an earthquake in a great city, but postmodernity’s self-confessed parasitic relativism means that it has a cultural staying power which can be measured in weeks. After the looted Twinkies® run out, everyone will be hungry again.”
The Cultural Mind, p. 56
Letter to the Editor: “We now live in a climate where an employee at any major American corporation who mentions to a coworker that he thinks that little boys are made of ‘snips and snails ...
“The evangelical world is still sitting under modernity’s table, eager for any crumbs that may fall our way. The big news down here is when some rock star or other intimates that it is possible that, under certain conditions, he might believe in a divine being other than himself, we snatch it up eagerly and feast for weeks.”
The Cultural Mind, p. 55
