Yesterday I recorded a series of short interviews that will be aired on the Moody broadcasting network sometime in the next few weeks. We were talking about the imminent release of Is Christianity Good for the World? and in that context the impact of the Christian faith on culture came up. In the course of …
John Has Slain His Thousands
I am continuing all this in the spirit of thinking out loud. It should be obvious — even though I still have not made up my mind finally — that I really like Sarah Palin and believe that she might be uniquely positioned (in just a couple months) to really do something about Roe. Here …
Justin and Laura
Weddings are a wonderful way of proclaiming the gospel. Many aspects of the gospel are on display in weddings, and can be seen there in their true glory. Sometimes, when we merely talk about the gospel, we can get tangled up in definitions. When that happens, some people react away from those definitions as though …
An Epistemological Pileup
All right. As far as I can make out, our debate over Sarah Palin revolves around three distinct issues, all three of which have merged in a highly entertaining and jumbled fashion — a sort of epistemological pile-up. The first is the propriety of voting for a Republican. A large number of us (myself included) …
Palin Comparison
Like many others, I will be watching Sarah Palin’s speech with great interest tonight. With that event coming up, here are just a few bits and pieces of leftover punditry that I found lying around the house here. 1. The barrage that has been unleashed against her means that the left is in a deep …
John Knox and Sarah Palin
One quick niggling contextualizing comment off to the side. John Knox’s famous missive, The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women, has been mentioned a couple times in the comments of this discussion about Sarah Palin. John Knox wrote the booklet, aiming it at Bloody Mary, a vicious persecutor of the …
Cons and Pros on Palin
I am continuing in the mode of thinking out loud about all of this. I have appreciated many of the comments, pro and con, for the most part, and so please continue the discussion. It would probably be good, though, to discontinue passing on the bat crap “research” that the desperate left is coming up …
Brian and Morgan
In the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, welcome. Let us pray together now and seek God’s blessing on our hearts and minds as we contemplate the nature of the joy before us now. Our Father, You are the Giver of all good things, with marriage in the first rank of those good …
Kinda Spooky When You Think About It
Sorry for the delay in getting to this issue. Yesterday was wall-to-wall with events, and since Palin was a surprise pick, I had to get up to speed. I want to divide my comments up into three categories — a statement of the problem as it was, some punditry, and some personal observations and reactions …
Judgmental Non-Judgmentalism
In the next chapter, Boyd’s tendency to hydroplane on various evangelical cliches catches up with him. His central argument is that evangelical Christians have the beam in their eye, and hence are in no position to be “moral guardians” for the rest of the country. There’s a lot to that argument, actually, but the problem …