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Lovers’ Spat

Last updated on: May 6, 2014 at 12:00 am By Peter Leithart

Christopher Caldwell offers this concise analysis of the fateful conversation between Clippers’ owner Donald Sterling and V. Stiviano: It is “pathetic intimate quarrel between Mr Sterling and a 31-year-old woman, V Stiviano. Something is upsetting Mr Sterling very much, but it is not black people – at least not primarily. It is the Molière-esque predicament of an 80-year-old man with a young companion he cannot control. Ms Stiviano posted photos of herself on Instagram with two black athletes many decades... Read more

Teens and Real People

Last updated on: May 5, 2014 at 12:00 am By Peter Leithart

One of Danah Boyd’s points in It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens is that teens have much less freedom of movement than teens of the past, and so are nudged toward virtual rather than face-to-face relations. As Alissa Quart sums it up in her NYTBR review: “In her research, however, she discovered that they would much rather hang out with their friends in person. But they can’t. ‘Today’s teenagers have less freedom to wander than any previous generation.’ .... Read more

Outgrowing Protestant Adolescence

Last updated on: May 5, 2014 at 12:00 am By Peter Leithart

At the Trinity House site, Pastor Rich Bledsoe compares Protestant-Catholic conflicts to family quarrels, and argues that Protestants need to enter an adult relationship with the Catholic church. Read more

Post-Christianity

Last updated on: May 5, 2014 at 12:00 am By Peter Leithart

Christians founded universities in medieval Europe. They were Christian institutions, but no one (to my knowledge) sat down to work out an explicitly Christian model of education before starting a university. Universities were Christians instinctively rather than self-consciously. Dittos for many of the other Christian institutions that arose during the era of Christendom. We no longer have that luxury. The cultural tides flow in a quite different direction, so establishing Christian institutions and patterns of life requires a deliberation that... Read more

New Moses

Last updated on: May 5, 2014 at 12:00 am By Peter Leithart

A thought inspired by a sermon from Pastor Rich Lusk. Jesus tells His disciples that they disciple the nations by baptizing and teaching the nations His commands. That is precisely the sequence of Jesus’ own life: Jesus moves out of the wilderness, crosses the Jordan in baptism, sets up a new Sinai on a mountain to teach the disciples a righteousness that surpasses the scribes’. That is precisely what had happened to Israel: Baptized in the sea, they journeyed to... Read more

New Moses

Last updated on: May 5, 2014 at 12:00 am By Peter Leithart

A thought inspired by a sermon from Pastor Rich Lusk. Jesus tells His disciples that they disciple the nations by baptizing and teaching the nations His commands. That is precisely the sequence of Jesus’ own life: Jesus moves out of the wilderness, crosses the Jordan in baptism, sets up a new Sinai on a mountain to teach the disciples a righteousness that surpasses the scribes’. That is precisely what had happened to Israel: Baptized in the sea, they journeyed to... Read more

Vindication by Resurrection

Last updated on: May 5, 2014 at 12:00 am By Peter Leithart

Jesus is justified by the Spirit in His resurrection. Though all the courts of mankind condemned Him to death, the Father reverses the sentence and therefore the verdict by raising Him. That is also the vindication of Jesus’ followers. Peter, James, John, and the rest had been groping toward the belief that Jesus was the Messiah. They lapsed at the cross, but they had been loyal to Jesus. When Jesus died, their loyalty and confession looked foolish. Until Jesus came... Read more

Vindication by Resurrection

Last updated on: May 5, 2014 at 12:00 am By Peter Leithart

Jesus is justified by the Spirit in His resurrection. Though all the courts of mankind condemned Him to death, the Father reverses the sentence and therefore the verdict by raising Him. That is also the vindication of Jesus’ followers. Peter, James, John, and the rest had been groping toward the belief that Jesus was the Messiah. They lapsed at the cross, but they had been loyal to Jesus. When Jesus died, their loyalty and confession looked foolish. Until Jesus came... Read more

Astronomical justification

Last updated on: May 5, 2014 at 12:00 am By Peter Leithart

Everyone who reads Paul knows that Abram believed God and it was counted to him as righteousness (Genesis 15:6). What is not evident in Paul, but certainly assumed by him, is the specific promise that Abram believed: “So shall your descendants be” (Genesis 15:5). How shall Abram’s descendants be? Yahweh offers a visual display of His verbal promise: “Look toward the heavens and recount the stars, if you are able to recount them” (v. 5). That’s about numbers, of course:... Read more

Astronomical justification

Last updated on: May 5, 2014 at 12:00 am By Peter Leithart

Everyone who reads Paul knows that Abram believed God and it was counted to him as righteousness (Genesis 15:6). What is not evident in Paul, but certainly assumed by him, is the specific promise that Abram believed: “So shall your descendants be” (Genesis 15:5). How shall Abram’s descendants be? Yahweh offers a visual display of His verbal promise: “Look toward the heavens and recount the stars, if you are able to recount them” (v. 5). That’s about numbers, of course:... Read more

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