Letter to the Editor: Thanks for what you do sir. It's helped me tremendously. Especially during last year's craziness. Please continue telling everyone that it's either Christ or Chaos. ...
The Chair Recognizes the Gentleman from Whosit
Like the Merchants of Babylon
Some friends have drawn my attention to a piece that N.T. Wright wrote for Time on the coronavirus here. Another friend of mine has already replied to him here, and just like my friend I agree that the article was better than the headline, which was gobsmackingly bad. But the article itself was still a …
COVIDAPALOOZA: LETTERS VERSION
Letter to the Editor: What is missing is proportion. The all-or-nothing approach to this problem only creates more problems and worse problems. I work in a hotbed of the Corona virus--Oakland ...
Your Great Grandmother on Roller Blades
Introduction: I am afraid that the next chapter of Beyond Authority and Submission is bad enough to make your front teeth ache. It is something of a global embarrassment. It makes you want to ...
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Surprised by Scripture: Review
From time to time at Mablog, I do a detailed review of a book, working through it chapter by chapter. This is a collection of my observations about N.T. Wright’s book Surprised by Scripture.
The Systemic Shuffle
I wanted to make just a few bullet points about Eric Mason’s second chapter. I already addressed one of the difficulties from this chapter in my first post on all this, but there are a few other things that need to be mentioned. First, he says a number of true, just, and orthodox things. Much …
Intransigence as the Key to Reform
One of the features of modern life together, one that requires some explanation, is our apparent limitless capacity to adapt to absurdity. Examples surround us on every hand, but let’s take the fact of tranny boys running in girls’ track meets. And lo! It turns out that boys are better at being girl runners than …
Those BioLogos Unbelievers
Introduction: Eugene Genovese once wrote that, during his atheist days, whenever he was in the company of a liberal Christian, he always felt that comfortable sense that he was in the presence of a fellow unbeliever. Unbelief is a thing. And that matter of faith is always the basic issue. One of the New Testament …
Nuanced November Letters
That Couch . . .: Good morning sir, Love your blog. I have a daughter who really wants to know who does the music in your video with the burning couch? Thanks, Brian Brian, here you go. Loved the couch burning video but am concerned about young impressionable preachers imitating your style . . . …
If Letters Were Bullets . . .
Refried Revoice: No post in particular: In your most recent Plodcast you talked about Revoice and mentioned the idea of Eros (facing each other) and Friendship (side by side). I was reminded of That Hideous Strength: “Those who are enjoying something, or suffering something together, are companions. Those who enjoy or suffer one another, are …