This post was originally published September 10, 2005. With republished posts, you shouldn’t expect the links to still work. My friend Phillip Johnson has a category of links on his blog that he appropriately entitled appalling. One of them is a site that is called Little Geneva. There are some related sites which can be …
On Throwing Wet Sponges At My Head
Many years ago, shortly after I had begun making a nuisance of myself to the somnolent liberalism of our little town, my wife and I crossed a threshold in how we learned to deal with public criticism. I had begun writing a weekly column for our newspaper, and the column addressed various cultural and political …
Unvarnished, Ungarbled, Unfettered, Unashamed
My MA thesis was on free will and determinism — and when I wrote it, I was an evangelical Arminian. But I lived in the world of those arguments for a time as one convinced of . . . well, I am not sure now what it was that I was convinced of, but whatever …
The Rogue Elephant Room
Here is a loose collection of thoughts about the Elephant Room imbroglio. I don’t pretend to comment as an insider at all, but I can say that my perspective and sympathies are basically the same as Justin Taylor’s. If anybody wants what I consider to be a fair and judicious take on the whole thing, …
Some People Like Groaners
A man walked into a bar with a dog, and told the men at the bar that he was willing to bet them a round of drinks that his dog was actually a talking dog. “You’re on,” one of the men said. The man turned to his dog and said, “What is on the top …
But Seriously Now . . .
The video parody of Rob Bell’s for Live Wons, I mean Love Wins, has been online for just over 24 hours now, and has already topped 13,000 views. Kudos to Stephen Sampson, who nailed it, and Ben Merkle, who had just the right amount of fun writing it, and Dane Wilson who shot and edited …
Another Perspective Heard From
Robbed Hell – C.A.S.T. Pearls Presents from Canon Wired on Vimeo.
Just So Much Flailing
I said earlier that I knew next to nothing about the proposed homosexuality bill in Uganda. Here is an interesting interview with Bishop Zac Niringiye about it. There are all kinds of things going on in there. The main thing it shows is that apart from a sure word in Scripture, one that applies to all …
Whooda Thunk?
I am entering this from my phone, just to see if it can be done. Doesn’t mean it should be done, of course.
We Serve the God of all Comfort
I received word last night that Christopher Witmer, a frequent commenter on this blog, was killed yesterday in an traffic accident in Tokyo. He leaves behind a wife and seven daughters. Pastor Ralph Smith, the Witmer’s pastor, was here in the States for presbytery and our ministerial conference, and is heading back for Japan immediately. …