"Suppose a man were to refer to certain respected theologians dismissively as having graduated from Bag of Snakes Seminary. He would instantly be upbraided for his un-Christlike behavior. Unfortunately for the one delivering the rebuke, it was discovered shortly thereafter that … [Read more...]

[With regard to the logical distinction between slavery and racism] But we are not positing a separate existence for the two back then. We are positing a separate existence for them in our thinking. A century later, we have a better perspective on some things than they did, and … [Read more...]

"For various reasons, satire is studied today as something of a museum piece, in much the same way that a military historian might analyze a crossbow. The learned and respectable among us have agreed to abandon the use of satire, leaving this particular form of abuse to the … [Read more...]

"The Christian faith is public, and not private. It is the salvation of the world, and the world can no more evade that salvation that a deserted lawn chair on the beach can resist a tsunami -- even if the Styrofoam cooler comes over to help. Do you want to stop the salvation of … [Read more...]

"Our investigations reveal that the austere world of black and white careful analysis, epistemological invective, doctrinal sarcasm, and eschatological jihad has obscured our sunny selves from public view. This is not necessarily a bad thing because our sunny selves can also take … [Read more...]

"But do we have an agenda for politics? Yes, we do. The Christian faith is public. Like all other sinful things in this world, Jesus Christ offers politics salvation. But when Jesus Christ invites anyone or anything to Himself, He bids him come and die. So this cannot be … [Read more...]

"This is a truth we also acknowledge. In one sense, the antebellum South was a Christian nation, but it was a Christian nation that invited, and received, a genuinely severe judgment from the God who is not mocked. This judgment from a holy God included all the atrocities of … [Read more...]

"The point is to identify the desperate spiritual problem we are confronting, to call it by its biblical name, and to call for repentance. Jesus speaks of those who are in the grip of a self-important self-righteousness, which is the chief characteristic of our Intoleristas, and … [Read more...]

"The church has an important role to play in witnessing the vows, and a minister may with propriety declare the vows to have been made, but the minister is no priest and marriage-maker. The couple does not stand before him to be transubstantiated" (Federal Husband, p. 110). … [Read more...]