“This is a poor choice indeed, and yet it is the only choice that unbelieving thought can present us. Either we have the monolithic unity of Parmenides or the fractured whirl of Heraclitus. We either have the false unity of modernity or the equally hollow diversity of postmodernity. The only way out of this impasse …
For Additional Emphasis
“The previous three pastors had been there for about a year and a half each, and the last of the three had been the kind of fellow who typed long doctrinal screeds to errant fellow ministers, single-spaced, and with typing up the sides of the margins. Some thought that he had mastered the art of …
Unity As False Ideal
“But Adam was unitary, undivided, and alone. So God put him into a deep sleep and divided him into two pieces. God then took the second piece, made it into a woman, and brought her back to him in order to heal the division. God made one into two in order to change those two …
High Mountain Air
“Despite this, or perhaps because of it, she was doggedly loyal to the humidity levels of Camel Creek, and would have nothing to do with the high mountain air of Grace Reformed” (Evangellyfish, p. 66).
On Cat Feet
“The kingdom of God does not arrive like the Eighty-second Airborne. The kingdom of God works quietly, inexorably, over the course of many generations” (5 Cities, p. 199).
Resumed Clarity
“And those unsavory questions involved things that had nothing to do with equality, dignity, or acceptable public summaries. The moment of resumed clarity was, for the detectives, not unlike that time when Wormtongue pitched the Palantir off the tower of Orthanc” (Evangellyfish, p. 62).
Authority and Submission Within Authority and Submission
“A husband’s authority over his wife and a wife’s particular submission to her husband are a subset of this broader Christian duty for all believers to be filled with the Spirit and to be mutually submissive to one another” (For a Glory and a Covering, p. 24).
What Lasts . . .
“No, the ancients produced plenty of garbage, just as we have. But their garbage has not lasted to the present. We don’t know about it — just as five hundred years from now, nobody will be reading our garbage. Why would anyone save the garbage?” (5 Cities, p. 195).
Gathered Sincerity
“But now — his voice was mellifluous and constant. Whenever he paused, always at just the right moment, sincerity oozed out of the silences and puddled on the floor” (Evangellyfish, p. 61).
More Blessing
“A blessing is not just something done by patriarchs on their deathbeds, ministers in the benediction, and by everyone when somebody sneezes” (For a Glory and a Covering, p. 22).