Introduction: One of the very useful set of categories that I learned from the reconstructionists back in the day was the distinction to be made between the three different kinds of religion. There is power religion, there is escape religion, and there is dominion religion. To expand slightly, there is the way of taking a …
Sapphire Gray
When strings are pulled taut, the cello is tuned,The wood holds the wine that is seasoned and old.Dark music poured out and emptied the cask,And rolled in my goblet, rich, tawny and toldHow holiness tastes, how righteousness laughs. You shall be as God, the great dragon had said, Philosophers argue their shapes in the fire …
The Holy, Horror, and Halloween
I want to take the approach of yet another Halloween to address something that is increasingly related to it. A few years ago I wrote about the lawfulness of celebrating Halloween itself — at the little kid dressing up level — but here I want to develop further a thought I mentioned in passing there. …
Truth in Advertising
Hidden Holocaust
“The modern world has seen many revolutions, from the French Revolution to the Russian, but the bloodiest of all of them has been the sexual revolution” (Same Sex Mirage, p. 141).
Counter-Intuitive
“The worst thing about pragmatic accommodations is that they don’t work, and the best thing about principled lost-cause stands is that they do” (Same Sex Mirage, p. 139).
Or So It Would Seem
“Call me old fashioned, but I still maintain there is a critical difference between climbing out of stupid and climbing into it” (Same Sex Mirage, p. 139).
A Gaudy and Spectacular Flim-Flammery
Introduction: So we have a caravan consisting of thousands of refugees, heading for our southern border. What are Christians to make of this? How are we to think of such things? We do live in a world, after all, in which our Lord told the parable of the Good Samaritan . . . We also …
Our Editorial Team Prepares a Response
Enviro-Stewardship: Wow! A “toad-eating sell-out” if you claim our first vocation as gardeners implies stewardship of God’s gift of creation. Some guys get stupid around pretty girls, Pastor Wilson loses his mind when he gets around any discussion of environmental care. The careful, linear logic that I read daily at Blog & Mablog disintegrates into …
Oh, We Didn’t Mean Our Morality . . .
“If we can’t impose a particular morality on people who don’t share that morality, then why did you impose your morality on the bigoted restaurant owner? This is not a difficult question to understand, and I am willing to wait for an answer” (Same Sex Mirage, p. 137).