Thabiti has not only been a faithful and charitable interlocutor, he is also a formidable one. I thank God for him. Again, let me begin with a summary of his most recent contribution. This is my understanding of his most recent post. Thabiti believes that many of my different issues are more easily distinguishable than …
Adoni-bezek’s Thumbs and Toes
My ongoing thanks to Thabiti for his gracious and intelligent disagreements with what I have written on this subject of race and slavery. He says that he has been delighted to see the Lord’s blessing on the exchanges, and I have to say I share in that delight. Thabiti has been grateful for the charitable …
Next Installment
Thabiti has very graciously continued our conversation, and so I refer you to his latest, which is here. I have written most of my response, but will probably not be able to finish it until the morning. It has been kind of a circus maximus day, and so thanks for your patience.
Love Is Never Later
Thabiti’s most recent post is really very good. I want to begin by mentioning again how pleased I am to able to discuss this issue with him, and in this way. Not only am I pleased with his charitable disposition, and his fair-mindedness in understanding views that are not his own, I am also excited …
How Koinonia Conquers
Reprinted by permission from Omnibus III, p. 275. Philemon Have you ever been watching a football game on television, and the game is being played in a city hundreds of miles away? But the team is your team; when they fumble the ball, you fumble the ball. When they give up two touchdowns in a …
Patrick “Nostradamus” Henry
I know that some of you all have been following this, but in case you haven’t, let me try to bring you up to speed. Last week Bryan Loritts posted on my book Black & Tan, and you can read him here. In the course of responding to my book, he also associated me with …
All in the Original Hebrew
One of the concerns that has been raised about moi, as Miss Piggy might say, is that I might be racially insensitive. That is actually a serious concern, which I hope to address seriously later, but I do need to acknowledge at the front end that there are some senses and some ways in which …
All They Can See Is Weather
One time the conservatives and the liberals ganged up on Jesus. They came to Him and demanded a sign from the sky. Jesus responded to them by pointing out that they already knew how to read the sky. This point is obscured in some translations which render the demand as being for a sign “from …
With a Bucket of Water
Over at The Calvinist International, Alastair Roberts responds to Peter Leithart’s response to my debate with Andrew Sullivan. Still with me? Now I shall respond! The merry-go-round has come full circle. That tree sure looks familiar. Actually, this should be relatively quick. The comments are closed over there, and this might be more of a …
What? 2013 Already?
A good question arose in the comments of my previous post, and I thought an adequate reply to it needed some room to spread out. It is a great question, and it illustrates why this discussion is not equivalent to an irrelevant attempt to get a do-over of some ancient battle or other. This whole …