Whereas I will be speaking this coming Friday night on a sexual topic (Sexual By Design), and whereas I will be doing this in Bloomington, Indiana, and whereas Bloomington is the home of the Kinsey Institute, I thought I should say a little brief something about the odd backdrop. It is a little bit like …
When Wives Say No
Contrary to the prevailing winds of our culture, our ministry has long emphasized the responsible headship of the husband in marriage, and the loyal submission of a wife to her husband. This is God’s pattern for marriage, and this is also quite enough to set some secularists to frothing. You would think they would chalk …
Deacons, Defaults, and Daughters
Allow me to place two apparently unrelated points side by side, and then make a third point with the two of them together. Let me start by pointing to a particular feature of the European debt crisis, and then move on to the stealth campaign for women deacons in the PCA via Manhattan’s Redeemer. Then …
Wind-Sniffers and Mammon Monkeys
I turned on the news this morning, and was treated to my very first dog food commericial that was pitched to “pet parents.” This is just one more weirdness in a long succession of weirdnesses, and one that, like all the others, began with a rejection of the creational norms of sexuality. The people, having …
But Not on the Sinkhole
John Adams once said that our Constitution presupposes a moral and a religious people. It is wholly unfit, he said, for any other. Now how can this help us sort out our discussions of Rick Santorum and Ron Paul? Let us set aside (for a moment) what I think folks in our circles would agree …
Alinsky Ball
Recent days have seen the media and/or new media in an uproar over a couple of incidents that invite a bit more investigation from the intellectually curious. I refer to Rush Limbaugh’s insult of Sandra Fluke, and Kirk Cameron’s gracious response to a question from Piers Morgan about homosexuality. Now in the interests of accuracy, …
We Should Think of It That Way More Often
Note on Intellectuals by W.H. Auden To the man-in-the-street, who, I’m sorry to say Is a keen observer of life,The word Intellectual suggests straight away A man who’s untrue to his wife.
How Jerks Define the Golden Life
One of the common problems that pastors have in giving counsel to troubled couples is the problem of determining when a particular sin in marriage is “actionable.” How bad does it have to be before the wronged spouse can walk? I am speaking here of sexual sins, which, given the nature of the case, are …
Our Ruling Class
I wanted to make sure that I made at least a couple points about this particular travesty from The Journal of Medical Ethics, HA! (JMEH!). The first point to make is that when men have lost their soul, they have not yet necessarily lost their capacity to reason. They can still say B, and do …
Competing Like a Lady
One time, many years ago, our family drove up to a summer basketball camp where Nate was participating. While there, we took a look around, and watched some of the action of a girls’ basketball camp, then still in progress. This was a Christian camp, and yet the girls were swaggering around on the court, …