This is the central meal of history. This is the meal at the world’s end, and it is the food that was set before our first parents in the Garden, and which they turned away from in search of their own food. This is the table at the center. This is the food that teaches …
The Common Denominator
“When men fall away from the Lord, they do so for all kinds of reasons — money, career, a woman, sex, drugs, alcohol, etc. But when women fall away from the Lord, invariably there is a man involved” (Her Hand in Marriage, p. 75).
The Prison Has Both a Right and Left Wing
Franke’s next chapter is on deconstruction, which to him is one of the operations of the Holy Ghost. The Other rescues the voices of those who have been “excluded, marginalized, and ignored” (p. 103) — examples might include the writers of the neo-Confederate newsletters that I mentioned previously. In this chapter, Franke says that deconstruction …
His Supreme Whiteness Up on the Mountain
Franke says, at the beginning of his next chapter, that the emphasis on otherness “that is related to the triune nature of God is also a particularly promising aspect of postmodern thought” (p. 91). Howzzat? Well, as it turns out, the triune nature of God appears to provide a firm foundation for leftist bromides about …
Skyler and Chelsey
In the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, welcome to you all. Let us pray. Our Father and God, we know how You delight to bless Your people, and we thank You that these blessings include the goodness of marriage. We rejoice before You now in the formation of a new union, and …
The Free Safety of Orthodoxy Considered as a Tub of Pudge
Chapter 7 of Franke’s book is where an astute defensive coordinator starts to get a good idea where the wide receiver is going to run his route. But since our free safety of orthodoxy has spent way too much time at KFC and is a tub of pudge, it begins to look as though we …
Sweet Defiance
Why sweet defiance? In Psalm 119:23, we are told, “How sweet are Your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth.” Now these are wonderful words in every believing ear. We could do some nice graphics work with it, no doubt — along with a picture of a beautiful sunset and beach, have …
She Never Hears the Click
“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) “For among them are those who creep into households and capture weak women, burdened with sins and led astray by various passions, always learning and never able to arrive at a knowledge of the truth. Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so …
Future Repentance
Book 4/Chapter 16 Men and women (section 16) 1. What does Calvin do with the argument that women ought not to be baptized if they were not circumcised? Old enough to be born again (section 17) 1. What do Calvin’s opponents conclude about the parentage of children? 2. Does Calvin agree that they are in …
Calvin the Immersionist
Book 4/Chapter 15 Alien hodgepodge (section 19) 1. What does Calvin think of baptismal “extras” like chrism, exsufflation, and the like? 2. What should we omit from baptismal ceremonies? 3. What does Calvin say about the mode of baptism? 4. Nevertheless, what does he say the word “baptize” means? Baptism by laymen (section 20) 1. …