Theology That Bites Back
Introduction: In order to keep these things plain and clear and lucid and comprehensible and transpicuous, you and I are going to have a little talk about this here election tomorrow. And in this little talk I am going to play the role of a Dutch uncle, which means, in its turn, that I am …
Introduction: So on Monday I wrote about John Piper's piece on the choice between Biden and Trump. A bit later, John Piper wrote me an email that began with "Heavenly days!" -- which is how respected ...
Introduction: I will begin by saying that I owe a great deal to John Piper, and one of the central things I owe to him is respect. A number of years ago, he invited me to speak in Minneapolis for one ...
Sermon Video Introduction: A little over a week from now, we will be selecting our next president. In preparation for this, and because Christ is Lord of everything we do, we need to consider ...
Introduction: In case anybody was worried that the year 2020 couldn’t get any zestier, along comes Jeffrey Toobin. Perhaps you missed it because you just got back from hunting moose in the Yukon, and so I will fill you in. The much feted (and apparently fated) Toobin, legal analyst for CNN, was on a Zoom …
Introduction: I want to begin with the observation that Joe Biden is an objectively poor candidate, and that by the traditional metrics he is running an objectively lousy campaign. The plain fact that he is clearly not mentally fit helped everyone to set a really low bar for the first presidential debate, such that everyone …
Introduction: Okay, so here’s the plan. We need to send Biden/Harris packing, and still feel good about ourselves afterwards. Can I get an amen? For some this might be a really tall order, ...
Introduction: I recently saw a quote from Tim Keller that was making the rounds, and I wanted to interact with it for just a skoshy bit. I will let you judge the quote for yourself in just a hot minute — so cool your baby jets — but it appears to me that Tim Keller …
Introduction: The passing of Ruth Bader Ginsburg (RBG) has launched a rocket propelled grenade (RPG) into an genuinely tumultuous and vexed presidential campaign. And that campaign was already RTG (Really Tumultuous Garbage). The president, of course, is going to nominate someone to fill Ginsburg’s seat, and Cocaine Mitch has already said that there will be …
Introduction: “When is it moral for a civil society to permit, authorize, or use coercion?” As I attempt to address this complex question adequately, I want to set out four basic concerns that ...
