Theology That Bites Back
The memorial service for my father, Jim Wilson, is going to be this coming Wednesday. There will be a song service at 10 am (Pacific), and the memorial service will begin at 11 am. The service will be live streamed (the link for which is here) for those who cannot join us. There will also …
So then, yesterday I read an article by Anthony Bradley, here, that I thought was fantastic. And so I tweeted this: “Gosh, this was good. Anthony Bradley jacks it out of the park.” Afterwards, I read this tweet from John Piper: “Bradley messes up a good article by saying David Platt “misses ‘radical’ ideas in …
I am reliably informed that an article I wrote many moons ago is being recirculated and is out there causing some consterwebs on the Internation. The original article is here, if you are not full up on your spring quota of Wilson imbroglios. If you don’t have time to chase these things down, I will …
Within the last week, I posted something that referenced Hugo Chavez dying with 2 billion dollars in his “pockets.” A friend has let me know that that little tidbit that I had picked up on the web was, shall we say, inadequately sourced. If you want to read more, here you go. So you all …
In the brief moment of calm that has descended upon our discussion about race and slavery, a calm that was provided to us by the weekend, I thought I should insert a quick comment here on what it was that made me think it was a good idea (back in the mid-nineties) to go into …
I have recently put together the pieces of a blunder I made repeatedly over the course of a number of years. One sample of this foul deed can be found on page 108 of The Case for Classical Christian Education, but I know I made the mistake in a number of places, mostly in talks. …
Rod Martin takes me to task for my view on the Obama/Romney match-up here. I am sure I will have other things to say on that subject later, but something else came up in the course of his post that I should deal with first. In the course of dealing with the election issue, Martin …
I just finished reading (again) John Bunyan’s great book Grace Abounding, and it made me think of the Lord’s kindness to me over the years. Bunyan recounts in great detail the morbid pathologies that had him by the throat for some years when he first came under conviction of sin. The thing that struck me …
I am going to file this under Retractions, mostly because I don’t have a category called Complicated Retractions. This one has to do with the philosophical “schools of thought” called nominalism and realism. In brief, nominalism is the view that only particular things exist, with a general name (nomen) given to those particular things which …
Over the years I have told (or written about) an anecdote involving Bishop Fulton Sheen and his editor, in an exchange over whether Heaven and Hell should be upper or lower case, with the bishop maintaining that they should be because “they’re places. You know, like Scarsdale.” Well, today, I ran across something that revealed …
