Theology That Bites Back
So in something of a prescient move, in my last post I mentioned my widening circle of irrelevance—my particular brand of toxicity is now being increasingly opposed, and out of the blue, by various important voices, modulated voices, voices of sweet reason. The latest is from Elizabeth Bruenig, a columnist with The Washington Post, who …
Introduction: The trick is to write a headline that gets people to read just the first couple paragraphs. After that, the overall quality of the writing has to hold them. So wish me luck. So taking the occasion of the Roy Moore story, last weekend The LA Times published an op-ed piece by Kathryn Brightbill …
So the campaign equivalent of a daisy-cutter bomb was dropped on the Roy Moore campaign yesterdiddy. There are certain things we don’t know, and certain other things are stinking obvious. Let us begin with what we don’t know. The allegations have been made, and Moore hotly denies them, calling them defamation. So, not having had …
The situation described in the following letters is entirely fictitious, including persons, names, crimes, sins, relationships, circumstances and all particulars. The kind of situation that is described, however, is all too common and my hope is that biblical principles applied to this fictitious scenario may be of some help to individuals tangled up in a …
So we are spang in the midst of what is being called a “sexual harassment apocalypse.” But this is only being experienced as an apocalypse by a certain class of individual—that class being what we might call the poseur-feminist. This is one who cops the attitude of quisling males who somehow decided that, provided their …
The conversation on incrementalism with the American Vision guys continues, albeit not very fruitfully. Joel McDurmon has responded to my thought experiment here. What this amounts to, in my view, is not a breakdown in communication, but rather a breakdown of trust. John Mark deserted Paul at Pamphylia (Acts 13:13). My supposition in this is …
Introduction: It is not often you see a cultural catastrophe working in two opposite directions at once—sort of a combination of volcano and giant sinkhole. But we are managing it. We have been blown sky high and are falling alive into Sheol, and all at the same time. Sexually Schizo: There are many areas where …
I really appreciate John Reasnor’s demeanor and reasonability as he seeks to take me to task over my pro-life incrementalism. There are some back-benchers in his corner who are pretty surly (but enough about Boljidar), but I think Reasnor is going out of his way to have an actual discussion, and I do appreciate it. …
Okay, so here I am, off on another jag concerning the LGBTQ thing or, as others might call it, the QQQQQ thing. Some might wonder why I blog about this stuff all the time. They muse pensively about it, stroking their chins, querulously inquiring why this topic is on my brain so much. I dunno. …
Trying to talk sense to our ruling elites in these our frantic times is like Pentheus thinking he could stop the Bacchae on their rampaging and murderous toot by standing up in front of them, holding up both his hands, and saying, “Guys, guys . . .” Satire is not exactly dead, but it might …
