This is what it looks like when you hit a nerve. A couple days ago I put forward 7 reasons why young men should marry 6 years earlier (on average) than they are doing now. This was hailed by some as the best thing they have heard in a long time, and denounced by others …
7 Reasons Young Men Should Marry Before Their 23rd Birthday
I want to argue that the war on marriage has many fronts. And while evangelical Christians have done a decent job in resisting some of the more outlandish attacks (e.g. Obergefell), in other areas we have tended to go along with the secular flow completely. One area where acquiescence is evident is when it comes …
Abortion in the First Degree
So the following was occasioned by Donald Trump beclowning himself on the abortion issue, but it is not about that particularly. He said, remember, that women who get abortions should, were the practice to become illegal, receive some sort of punishment. He held to that position for about ten minutes, but it was long enough …
Book of the Month/April 2016
Back in the eighties, the debate over theonomy and Christian Reconstruction was a “thing.” It is still a thing, and in proof of what I say I offer the evidence that virtually no one thinks so. The day of common sense shared assumption is clean over. We live in a day when decent folks can …
Trump as Corduroy Pillow
Trump is a regular corduroy pillow — always making headlines. Yesterday he did it by manufacturing part of his pro-life position on the spot under questioning from Chris Matthews. Under pressure, he said that there would have to be “some form” of punishment for a woman who procured an abortion. Confident of his ability to …
Slut-Shaming and the Gospel of Grace
In a time when we no longer know what a man is, or what a woman is, it would seem to follow that we can no longer know what the perversions of these offices are. Among many other weirdnesses, we are so far gone that we no longer know what a slut is. Societies and …
The Last Human Sacrifice
We are told in Scripture, in numerous places, that the death of Jesus was a death for sin. It is therefore not possible to meditate responsibly on the crucifixion of Jesus without reckoning with the fact and reality of sin. If Jesus was a dragon-slayer in His passion, and He was, then we must understand …
Gays, Gamblers and Gunslingers
Wesley Hill has asked if he will be gay in the resurrection. He raises the question thoughtfully and carefully, but the trajectory of his thinking is going in a decidedly different direction than my own thoughts have gone on this same general topic. His post is here if you want to check it out first. …
Trump Change
Eight years after America was first suckered by the promise of hope and change, we are now being offered the downgraded expectations of cope and change. I refer, of course, to the apparent ascendancy of Donald Trump, he would offer us Trump Change, a state of affairs that rhymes with Chump Change. For one like …
Surveying the Text: 1 Thessalonians
Introduction Thessalonica was a principal city in Macedonia, the region that was the home of Philip and the great Alexander. This letter was written around 50 A.D. which would make it, with the exception of Galatians, the earliest record of Paul’s writing. While the Jews in Berea were more noble than the Jews in Thessalonica …