As much as I loathe and despise what the current administration is doing to our economy, and as much as I reject the flowering fascism that is unfolding every evening on the news, let us not fall for hackneyed talking points from what is purported to be the other side. Obama is now in the …
The Helium Balloon of Their Core Principles
Gramsci was a commie in the early years who had a falling out with Lenin over strategy and tactics. Lenin wanted to seize power directly, right this minute, which he successfully did in certain backwater places. I mean hats off to him and all — he created quite a nuisance, and enslaved a good chunk …
Lord, Give Us Men
Last Lord’s Day, David Bayly preached a fine sermon to the president. All we need now is about 50,000 more sermons like it, and not from the same fifty churches either.
The Queen of Sheba and Ivan the Terrible
The word envy enters a lot of political and economic discussion, but it is usually referred to the envy of those who stand to gain materially after the smoke of redistribution all clears away. When someone runs on a platform of free choocolate milk for everybody, envy is driving the whole thing, and it is …
A Handy Compass
A question arose in a recent thread that I thought I could address very quickly here. The question was, “just how much of a real threat is radical Islam?” Fortunately, we have the kind of leaders now who are very helpful in this regard — the president, for instance. The leadership of the West is …
In a Nutshell
My two previous posts on the assassination of Tiller generated a significant number of questions, and I wanted to put one general response in a nutshell here. The gospel is central, always central. Our task is to preach Christ and Him crucified. We are not to downgrade the Church into a Moral Uplift Society, or …
Don”t Start What You Cannot Finish
The execution of Tiller is the kind of thing that reveals the glaring weaknesses in contemporary theology when it comes to dealing with the magistrate. We are so muddled on so many levels that when a crisis comes, we respond with simplistic illustrations, as though ethics dealt with individuals and individuals only. The scenario usually …
Bronze Tint Notwithstanding
You know, technically, there wasn’t anything wrong with what she said — at least not in the sound byte part. “I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experience would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.” I too would …
As Wisconsin is to Cheese
The art of understanding politics does not depend primarily on having read an exhaustive stack of investigative books. Investigative books are as full of lies as the politicians themselves are, and if we have read any we should make our decisions on which to believe on the basis of other criteria. As Dennis Miller once …
A Sermon for the President
Ascension Sunday 2009 This Lord’s Day is Ascension Sunday, the day we have set apart to commemorate the exaltation of Jesus Christ to the right hand of the Ancient of Days. This was the day upon which He was given universal and complete authority over all nations and kings, when He was given all rule …