Gramsci was a commie in the early years who had a falling out with Lenin over strategy and tactics. Lenin wanted to seize power directly, right this minute, which he successfully did in certain backwater places. I mean hats off to him and all — he created quite a nuisance, and enslaved a good chunk …
Lord, Give Us Men
Last Lord’s Day, David Bayly preached a fine sermon to the president. All we need now is about 50,000 more sermons like it, and not from the same fifty churches either.
The Queen of Sheba and Ivan the Terrible
The word envy enters a lot of political and economic discussion, but it is usually referred to the envy of those who stand to gain materially after the smoke of redistribution all clears away. When someone runs on a platform of free choocolate milk for everybody, envy is driving the whole thing, and it is …
A Handy Compass
A question arose in a recent thread that I thought I could address very quickly here. The question was, “just how much of a real threat is radical Islam?” Fortunately, we have the kind of leaders now who are very helpful in this regard — the president, for instance. The leadership of the West is …
In a Nutshell
My two previous posts on the assassination of Tiller generated a significant number of questions, and I wanted to put one general response in a nutshell here. The gospel is central, always central. Our task is to preach Christ and Him crucified. We are not to downgrade the Church into a Moral Uplift Society, or …
Ten Reasons to be Glad that President Obama Pronounced June to be LGBT Month
For those just joining us, LGBT stands for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Trangender, and the proclamation can be found here. On another note, lgbt is the noise I make in the back of my throat whenever very solemn people do things like this. But here are ten reasons to be grateful for the small mercies …
Don”t Start What You Cannot Finish
The execution of Tiller is the kind of thing that reveals the glaring weaknesses in contemporary theology when it comes to dealing with the magistrate. We are so muddled on so many levels that when a crisis comes, we respond with simplistic illustrations, as though ethics dealt with individuals and individuals only. The scenario usually …
Getting the Whole Thing Arsy Varsy
As many of you have now heard, the late-term abortionist Dr. George Tiller was shot in a vigilante execution yesterday, while he was serving as an usher at Reformation Lutheran. A suspect named Scott Roeder is now in custody. And of course, all those who hate ungodly revolutionary violence need to condemn this execution, and …
Bronze Tint Notwithstanding
You know, technically, there wasn’t anything wrong with what she said — at least not in the sound byte part. “I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experience would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.” I too would …
Capernaum Had No Gay Pride Parades
It used to be possible to say that the issue of homosexuality was one on which few believing Christians were confused. However, there was still a problem, and it led to our current cultural impasse. Over the years, much of the strength of Christian opposition to homosexuality has been instinctive and cultural, rather than a …