“The more like Jesus you are, the more like yourself you are going to be. The less like Jesus you are, the more monotonous and predictable it’s going to be. Sin is monotonous. Godliness is not.”
Letters, All on Edwards . . .
Letter to the Editor: Thank you for being a voice of reason in the national evangelical conversation about social justice/racial reconciliation. I appreciate your writing. ...
How Rapidly the Hot Cool Cools
“As soon as you go down the mass market road you lose control of who wears your product.”
Nation of Rebels, p. 127
No Other Way
“There are, of course, two types of imitation. True progress and godliness is something that develops through imitation, but because human beings are necessarily imitators, the same thing is true of ungodliness”
White Supremacy and the Cross
Introduction: Last Friday (and into the weekend) I got into a little Twitter skirmish with a handful of folks who were responding to my piece on The Slaves of Jonathan Edwards, found here. The ...
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Which Means Your Velvet Elvis Has to Go
“Because taste is grounded in the sense of distinction, it follows that not everyone can have good taste.”
Nation of Rebels, p. 125
Two Layers of Imitation
“Godly parenting is a function of becoming more like Jesus in the presence of little ones who are also in the process of becoming more like Jesus.”
Not Entirely Unknown . . .
Those Darn Other People
“Whenever you look at the list of consumer goods that (according to the critic) people don’t really need, what you invariably see is a list of consumer goods that middle-aged intellectuals don’t need . . . consumerism, in other words, always seems to be a critique of what other people buy.”
Nation of Rebels, p. 105
Said in a World of Bad Omelets
“You can have the best equipment in the world, but if you try to make an omelet with rotten eggs, you are still going to get a rotten omelet. It doesn’t matter how good the recipe is, or how fancy the kitchen is.”