“The preconditions of the Reformation were everywhere — the heat was spread evenly across the bottom of the pot. When the bubbles first started to appear, they seemed like solitary events — first John Wycliffe . . . then Jan Hus, the Bohemian reformer . . . then Luther. But by the time of Luther, …
So Let’s Not Kid Ourselves
“When a guy singles out a young woman in some romantic fashion, this means that one of two things is happening. Either he is trying to get her into bed dishonorably, or he is attempting to get her into bed honorably” (From 5 Paths, p. 72).
High Art
“Immodest and attractive is easy. Modest and repulsive is easy too. But modest and attractive is an art form” (From 5 Paths, p. 69).
40, Counting Cousin Leroy
“The history of the papacy has been a glorious, textured, ribald, romantic, bizarre, heroic, scandalous, and honorable affair. There have been 267 popes and 39 antipopes, depending on who’s counting” (5 Cities, p. 11).
Preparations
“A father might say that he should be able to tell this suitor no. This is right — he should be able to. But he should have thought of that fifteen years earlier when he was busy building fundamental distrust in his daughter” (From 5 Paths, pp. 64-65).
Thinking It All the Way Through
“The same Old Testament law that required stoning to death for lying about fornication also required a parapet around the roof of an Israelite’s house. This was necessary because they spent a lot of time up there, and the requirement ws comparable to our requirements for railings on second story decks, fences around swimming pools, …
More Than a Little Weird
“But even in this so-called liberated time, most would think it was more than a little weird to have the groom walk down the aisle and be given away by his mom. The pattern of sons leaving and daughters being given is embedded in us deeply” (From 5 Paths to the Love of Your Life, …
Instead of Two
“Since I wrote Her Hand in Marriage, I have heard more than one courtship horror story. And more than once I have consequently said that the courtship model means that we have six idiots involved instead of two” (5 Paths to the Love of Your Life, p. 59).
Honor the Beast
“The identification of the ruling Roman authorities as ‘a blaspheming beast’ is not exactly a complimentary one, and yet for the Christians it was a very obvious one to make. When the Christians cultivated their open liturgical honor for the emperor, they were not doing so with their eyes closed. We might even say that …
Losing the Creature You Worship
“Over the past several centuries, so many seminaries, parachurch organizations, colleges, and denominations have fallen into unbelief, that you would think we would know what it looks like by now. And yet, we must always remember the words of God to those who cannot see, and who in the name of their goddess reason, will …