Some people see the whole chessboard, and some people don’t. Some people want to know what would be so unChristian about moving that pawn right there to that other spot, while others understand what the Scriptures teach (authoritatively) about the whole game. InterVarsity is in the middle of capitulating on the issue of sodomy, which …
Understanding Bad Words
Here are the notes for a talk to the NSA student body . . . “Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you” …
Like Scarsdale
A denial of Hell is the very apex of short term thinking. Living your life here and now as though eternity matters is the epitome of long term thinking. And once these fundamental “mentalities” have set in, it is not long before you start to see other manifestations of them. Deferred gratification is essential to …
Mars Hell
Martin Luther once said that God reveals Himself in the contrary. Love is revealed in a man, contorted with pain on a cross. And an inability to understand how this can work is what creates problems for those who can find someone like Rob Bell compelling. Justin Taylor has a good summary of some of …
A Palin Critique
Given the trajectory of events, it looks to me as though Sarah Palin is going to be a significant player in the coming year, leading up to the 2012 presidential elections. I am not saying she is going to run, and I am not saying that she would get the nomination/presidency if she did run …
Edits on Birth Control
Quite a few of you read Eleven Theses on Birth Control. This is to let you know I made some significant edits to points 4 and 5. Here.
Eleven Theses on Birth Control
Update: There are some significant edits to #4-5. Just so you know. Yesterday a friend called to chide me (in a friendly way) for the way in which I have not come down definitively on the question of birth control. My reason for this has been that when it comes to families and the size …
Gay Marriage as Failure to Launch
If the Bible teaches, as it does, that the woman is the glory of the man, what follows from this? Among others things, we find an answer to one of the central challenges of our culture wars — by which I mean the cultural infantilism of homosexual marriage. “the woman is the glory of the …
When the Enemy of Your Enemy is the Devil
Conservative Christian activist, what is missing from GOProd? U are! And there is a reason for that. Recent months have seen a significant shift on the right, as the conservative organization CPAC invited the right wing homosexual group GOProd to participate in its annual parade of candidates and the near future’s erstwhile candidates. We shouldn’t …
Eh? Blotcher Bulldo?
The miscreants and felons that we have appointed to interpret our Constitution for us have managed, over the years, to stretch the commerce clause to a point where only theoretical physicists can understand quite how they did it. A farmer who raises his very own grain to feed to his very own cattle, the manure …