It's like we've all developed some sort of awkwardness around the word Gave. It's too in your face. We can't deal any more. And so we're all saying Gifted as a way of tiptoeing around the margins of that incredibly offensively direct word, Gave. Read more
You might think I sound crazy but a friend said it better. 'If he reads a book first, I can't have anything to do with it.' This, I think, is the truest and best definition of marriage. We might occasionally, because of the perversity of fate and circumstances, be forced to use the same toothbrush, but we should never ever ever ever be forced to read the same books. Read more
Happy Labor Day. We woke up early and had a nice long argument about the Nashville Statement. We even got to shouting and loud gesturing. I think it will probably make your day. And if you want to call us for marriage counseling, private message me. [Just kidding.] Here is Alaisrair with a defense of the statement. My mother is filling in her blog with lots of writing that has never made it to the internet. Join me in clamoring for... Read more
The trouble with the Nashville Statement is that it's like poking an angry bear in the eye with a stick. Going up to the violent and angry mob and expressing disagreement goes against a deep rooted inclination to self preservation. Read more
Five years ago, if you had told me that I would be upset about a little bit of dust in the living room, and shoes left on the porch, I would have wanted to punch you in the face because, I would have said, 'I should be so lucky.' Read more
No one, no matter what they say, has all the kinds of knowledge perfectly aligned. You may know and agree with every point of doctrine and theology, but way down there, in the back of yourself, there lurks some wrong thought, some corrupt assumption about the character and nature of God that causes you to distrust, to hide in the darkness and refuse to come all the way into the light. Read more
It’s the last day of August. Did you know? Just wanted to remind you. I’m hoping Matt will join me for an extra super special Nashville edition podcast where we argue about whether or not another list of theological points is useful. I genuinely shocked him, yesterday, by even questioning the need for any such a statement. He spent the whole day explaining to me how I was lily-livered and wrong. On the other hand, watching the left unfurl like... Read more
So the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood put out what they’re calling the Nashville Statement about human sexuality and transgenderism, signed by many upright and godly people, and therefore, of course, causing a firestorm on social media. Amidst some substantial disagreement, like this good one, many ugly words were let fly, which I will not link to. I only recently pulled myself together enough to click on the Danvers Statement, and truly, the whole time I was reading it,... Read more
Matt found and posted on Facebook this fantastic picture of Trump crushing the serpent (who, you know, in the Bible, is Satan) under his heel while in the foreground, illuminated by a ray of sunlight, a young man plants a seedling. I guess I should have said painting rather than picture, for this amazing image sprung fully formed from the mind and brush of Jon McNaughton, that wondrous ‘artist’ who formerly has painted Jesus in company with people like Ronald... Read more
Good Morning. Finally getting myself together to throw up some links and the podcast we just put together. Actually, that seems like the wrong kind of word. Can you put together a podcast? But ‘recording’ seems wrong too because we’re just shouting into a cell phone. Anyway, we talk about the hurricane, the flooding, how to get men to go to church, why reading books is hard, and how it’s not ok to say that men and women are different.... Read more
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