A good question arose in the comments of my previous post, and I thought an adequate reply to it needed some room to spread out. It is a great question, and it illustrates why this discussion is not equivalent to an irrelevant attempt to get a do-over of some ancient battle or other. This whole …
With a Bit of Menthol
As everyone knows by now, one of my very favorite activities is defending myself against charges of racism and/or racial insensitivity on the Internet. I have decided that this will be periodically necessary, at least until I die, but I attribute this more to cosmic forces than to any nefarious plot on the part of …
Snarls and Snarling
We have seen that the devil baits his hook with sinful pleasures, and then, when the hapless sinner bites, he gives a deft tug on the hook of accusation. Now the fish might well protest, when being hauled into the boat of condemnation by the ruthless fisherman, that the worm was not his idea. “Why …
The Gist of My Prepared Remarks
Below are my prepared remarks for the debate this evening with Andrew Sullivan. I presented this (at the event) in two pieces, and didn’t quite get all of it in, but this does provide you with some idea. Good evening, all. I would like to begin by thanking the Lord for how everything has come …
I Mean, Think About It
“Rourke had delivered at least three babies in the back seats of cars and taxi cabs, and thought he was qualified to assert that there was nothing whatever that was natural about it. It was the craziest thing in the world. Women were the kind of people that people came out of, for crying out …
The Conscription Question
A few weeks ago there was a flurry of concern over the possibility of daughters being drafted for combat roles. Now that women have been cleared for combat duty by the Pentagon, all that is now necessary for that monstrosity to happen is for us to abandon our commitment to an all-volunteer military. But this …
Salt and Sugar
“Talking about how men and women differ from one another ought to be commonplace, but in our egalitarian age, to point out differences that use to be as obvious as the differences between salt and sugar is to be guilty (in some quarters) of a thought crime” (For a Glory and a Covering, p. 39).
Accusational Dodge Ball
A few days past, I wrote about some cautions when it came to confession of sin. If you missed it, you can read that here. I wanted to follow that general set of cautions up with a handful of “fer-instance” situations. These might illustrate better how we must remember at all times that we are …
Some Cautions About Confession
Anybody who has followed our teaching for any length of time knows that we believe that confession of sin is good for the soul. I learned this emphasis from my father, and find it to be preeminently biblical. If we confess our sins, God is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and cleanse …
Partaking of One Another
“This means the world is not divided between those who partake and those who do not partake. Rather, it is divided between those who partake righteously and those who partake unrighteously. We cannot go anywhere to opt out of partaking altogether. For example, a man can partake of his wife (Eph. 5:31) or of a …