Here are a few quick comments about how R2K theology is rapidly running out of options. A few months ago, Michael Horton explained how concervative Christians could (tentatively) support domestic partnerships for homosexual couples. If the culture wars were something that involved four walls and a paint can, this is what painting yourself into a …
With My Customary Mildness
Those conservatives who believe that the threat of same-sex marriage is coming solely from places like the gay pride parades of San Francisco aren’t paying close enough attention. A lot is going on, in the legal world, in the entertainment industry, in the crazy vanguards, and elsewhere. There is in fact a lot of pressure …
That Dog’s Breakfast
Okay, so let’s have a little fun with the Paul Ryan pick. And by “a little fun” I mean a short political sketch that will make all my friends think I have lost my mind. But I haven’t. Promise. Remember, going back to Old Testament analogies, everything hinges on where we think we are. How …
The Best Case for Voting Romney So Far. But . . .
Our friend David Bahnsen pointed me to the following three articles. The first is by another friend, Gary DeMar, urging us to vote for Romney. The second is a dissenting view, found here. And the third is by Jim Jordan, and he lays out the best case for Christians voting for Romney that I have …
No Mandate for Either One
The presidential election, of course, has the capacity to be a disaster on wheels, either way it goes. But let me sketch a quick scenario in which it could be a good thing — either way. One of my assumptions in this thought experiment is that in the gubernatorial races, in the Senate races, and …
Whiter Than Gehazi’s Knees
A friend has let know that he has heard a report that I have some sympathies for “separation of the races” and that I hold to the “inferiority of minorities.” I address this question in Black & Tan, which Canon is still selling on Kindle for 99 cents here. The report is a falsehood top …
Chick-fil-A and the Attack of the Tyrannatots
The outlines of the latest Free Speech Clown Car Review are pretty familiar by now. Dan Cathy, the COO of Chick-fil-A, was asked his opinion on homosexual marriage, and he, being a good Christian man, said he was agin it. This should not have been an astonishment, for it has pretty much been the mainstream …
That Jailbird Paul
I have been trying to break down how the politics of outrage work. One of the more baffling aspects of this tactic is how effective it is, despite the fact that the hypocrisy of them is so naked and out there. Why do people applaud a magician, all of whose cables, lines, and trapdoors are …
History as Rebekah’s Womb
I need to start with a story that is not entirely relevant, although one part of it is. When I was in the Navy, I had occasion to deal with some devotees of an uber-dispensational Bible teacher named R.B. Thieme. That’s another story, with lots of juicy bits that came later. Another time maybe. At …
How the Marble Always Rolls
Years ago, when I was in college, the prof in some class or other had us watch a documentary film recording somebody’s suicide. They didn’t show that part on camera, but the whole thing was a “situation ethics” kind of thing, where the person had been diagnosed with a terminal (and painful) disease that he …