All right. Three basic points, and then I think I will try to bring this in for a landing. First, just as a practical matter we need to distinguish between anonymous scurrility and mainstream misbehavior. It is not that anonymous scurrility is okay, but you do kind of know what to expect. We are not …
Reading List of Completed Books
As you peruse this list, please keep in mind that these books were read, and evaluated, over a period of many years. As my understanding of God’s Word (not to mention the world) has grown, the predictable result is that I would now evaluate many of these works differently — DW 2024: 1. The Rights …
Surrendering the Precious
I just finished reading (again) John Bunyan’s great book Grace Abounding, and it made me think of the Lord’s kindness to me over the years. Bunyan recounts in great detail the morbid pathologies that had him by the throat for some years when he first came under conviction of sin. The thing that struck me …
Prayer Breakfast Judeo Christians
So let me tell you about a fun thing. A few weeks ago, Garry Trudeau ran a few strips in Doonesbury sending up “The Family,” of C Street fame — a group of Washington insiders running a ministry to politicians. As a faithful Doonesbury reader unacquainted with whatever scandal he was referring to, I thought …
In the Sump Pump Hole
I am afraid Scott Clark continues not to know what he is talking about. In his most recent pronouncement, which you may read through here, he says quite a number of false things. But in order to observe some economy of effort, I want to concentrate briefly on three true things that he said. First, …
Ninth Commandment Issues
Okay, please bear with me for a moment — I have a string of quotations, and with some answers and responses from me interspersed. First, from his blog, Lane asks me this question: “I know, I know, this post comes from the self-proclaimed Fully Documented Anonymous Attack Blog, or FDAAB for short. You all will …
Orders of Magnitude
Lane says that, although I offer some qualifications, when it comes to the history of doctrine, I am essentially a Hegelian. I would take issue with that description — here are the qualifications I gave. “The third issue can be illustrated by adapting something from Hegel’s playbook. His take on history was that a thesis …
The Clarity A Night on the Sofa Produces
Green Baggins has begun a process of working through the Federal Vision issue of Credenda. He worries in his last few sentences that I might feel like he hit below the belt in this exchange, but I don’t think that at all. There are a couple of roundhouses where he doesn’t hit anything at all, …
Like Drowning in a Cauldron of Hot Butterscotch
A PCA pastor named Dewey Roberts has recently taken me to task for what I have written about the SJC — or, as he put it, my “campaign of ‘disinformation’ against the PCA and the SJC.” He has thrown down the gauntlet, and I think that when you read how he has phrased things it …
Anti-FV Espionage
Well, okay, it now looks like I need to offer a brief comment on the FV critics’ espionage network. Here’s the deal. Jim Jordan is the main dude at a ministry called Biblical Horizons. That ministry includes a private list discussion group, to which I belong. The list requirements concerning confidentiality are quite strict — …