Over at The Daily Beast, Lee Siegel writes this: “Creepy as Anthony Wiener’s photos are, the level of outrage aimed at him is wildly unfair. We’d have no heroes left if we held everyone to this ridiculous standard.” Just when you think that discourse in our nation has gotten to the bottom of the barrel, …
Rutting or Revolution
Just last night we were having some family discussion about the tribulations of Rep. Weiner. We were talking mostly about God’s sense of humor. Here was a man who wanted the smart set to run the whole stinking economy, and he can’t even run his own Twitter account. Not only was he not able to …
More on Old School Marriage
My recent post on old school marriage has generated some questions about the biblical necessity of marriage vows. I had argued that a marriage is constituted when two elements are both present — a sexual union and a socially recognized commitment and bond (vows), which result in a particular legal status for that couple. In …
Sexual Intercourse, Old School
In order to do a better job defending marriage we have to do a better job defining it. What is marriage anyway? Because false understandings of marriage are common, even among conservative Christians, we are frequently caught flatfooted when it comes to things like the gay marriage debate. A marriage requires two components or elements. …
Even If You Use a Spatula
Lust is a demand for a finite thing to provide what only the infinite can actually provide. God has placed eternity in our hearts (Ecc. 3:11, ESV), and that God-shaped vacuum — to use Pascal’s phrase for it — can only be filled by the infinite torrential waterfall that is the triune God. He is …
And No Potato
In these days of rising pomosexuality, the latest move is to challenge the very idea of a sexual identity in the first place. But this notion does not get laughed to scorn (in the way, say, that a fundamentalist would if he told a homosexual activist that all he needed to do was “find a …
Sexual Sanity
I would like to drive as much traffic as I can to this review of the new IVP book, The End of Sexual Identity. The book is by Jenell Paris, and is reviewed by Peter Jones. The sooner we understand that every worldview has a sexual expression, and that every sexual act is a disrobed …
Sojourning in Hate
Jim Wallis of Sojourners magazine, a leftist evangelical outfit, got into a bit of a spot when the magazine declined to take an ad designed to help churches and clergy become more gay affirming. The pickle is described here, and Wallis explains himself here. The explanation offered by Wallis is a verbal attempt to build …
A Waffle Way Too Big for the Plates at IHOP
The Bayly brothers have helpfully provided a portion of a transcript in which Tim Keller is being interviewed, and is asked about what the church’s approach to homosexuality should be. Presented with this golden opportunity, I am afraid that Keller whiffed it. He says that a truly biblical response is not to be found among …
Networked Cowardice and Corruption
Zondervan is releasing a new edition of the Bible, and what else is new? But as we keep making advances in semiotic contextualizations, we have now learned how to make the Bible even more accessible to middle America, which is of course where all the Bible buyers are. Take, for example, this problem passage: “The …