Introduction Let us talk for a moment about the way appeasement usually goes, and begin by citing Churchill in his trenchant response to Chamberlain. “You were given the choice between war and dishonour. You chose dishonour and you will have war.” Appeasement Shows Up … [Read more...]
The Sin of Soft
“For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds” (Heb. 12:3). Comes now the Ninth Short-Circuit Court of Appeals, upholding legislation in California that bans licensed counselors from helping young people … [Read more...]
Too Many Delicatuli
The central thing that believing Christians have to learn in our current cultural challenges is how to deal with the full court press. We have to learn how to break the press. At the same time, in order to do this successfully, we have to learn how to dismiss irrelevancies. We … [Read more...]
7 Reasons for Cultural Optimism
Someone recently mentioned to me that my cultural commentary of late has not seemed very postmilly. Where did all my optimism go? Many years ago members of my family were assembling for breakfast, and I believe the demeanor of all of us was somewhat somber, particularly my … [Read more...]
The Prison Mines of Ganymede
Introduction How do you know when you are being steered? I mean steered by the shapers and molders of the bleeding edge contempo-evangelical conscience, which would be, of course, the devil. The Basic Move You know that you are being steered when positions that were demanded … [Read more...]
Risking the Plug-Uglies
"Think of the countless human acts, acts of copulation, spread over millennia, that led to the birth of Plato, Attila, or Napoleon. Yet it is on these unpredictables that human history largely depends" (C.S. Lewis, Letters to Malcolm, p. 39). We look around ourselves and we … [Read more...]
Through Thick or Thin?
Introduction One of the complicating factors in the recent dust-up over Trinitarian theology and complementarianism has been the fact that more is going on than trying to justify complementarianism in two different ways. Rather, there is the additional issue of people seeking to … [Read more...]
Al Jolson in Blackface
So Google is apparently having trouble keeping up with our exact location as they keep barreling past various jerkwater junctions. Didn't anybody tell them what the deal was supposed to be? This crazy train we are on stops for no man, and yet today Google tried to honor -- I can … [Read more...]
If At First You Don’t Secede . . .
Introduction I know that it is the fifth of July, but the principles we were talking about yesterday have not gone away. Some discussion online yesterday made me realize that a brief history lesson was in order, followed by just a few contemporary applications. For Christians … [Read more...]
The Fourth of July in Vanity Fair
Introduction My topic, if you could not guess from the cryptic title, is religious liberty. Vanity Fair, if you have not guessed, does not celebrate the Fourth of July. That's a problem. Lots of Americans still celebrate it, but because we are now governed by non-elected … [Read more...]
A Fifty Gallon Drum of Lame Sauce
So here would be a brief series of snapshots showing what happens to a denomination after you kick Machen out of it. https://vimeo.com/171349413 Now by sharing this video I do not want to indicate that I have watched this entire thing, for there are some duties that we tend … [Read more...]
On Sharing Our Manna
All right. So there are several threads to tie together here, re: Falwell and Moore. First I need to address the lame defense of himself that Jerry Falwell Jr. gave. "Honored for same hypocrites who accused Jesus of being a friend of publicans and sinners to be targeting me … [Read more...]
Just to Make It More Interesting: A Guest Post
I got a letter from a friend about my post on Russell Moore, and I asked him if he could rework it a bit and I would run it as a guest post. I would then reply (which I will probably do tomorrow morning). He said sure, but wanted to post as "a friend." That's fine with me, and … [Read more...]
A Sparkly Lunatic
Fair Warning Just so that you have ample warning beforehand, I would like to provide an advance heads up that I intend to lay about myself like a coruscating berserker. So that you don't have to resort to google, what that basically means is "sparkly lunatic." Some of you may … [Read more...]
Quick Follow Up on The Flag
As a number of you noticed, I wrote yesterday on what I regard as empty posturing on the part of the Southern Baptist Convention. This elicited a lot of reactions and comments, and so I thought to follow everything up with a few additional comments of my own. One of the … [Read more...]
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