Good Moaning. And a blessed beginning of Holy Week to you. Today we wake up and take wild swings at the noted failures of Evangelicals and why Matt is so upset about Hank Hanegraff becoming Eastern Orthodox. Is it ok to say other people are wrong? We answer that question with a resounding and roiling YES. I’m sure it will set you up nicely for a week of Holiness and thinking about Jesus. First up, here’s that article I was... Read more
I embroiled myself in a minor twitter scuffle about that mean post I wrote this week. Although, it couldn’t really be described as a true scuffle because I didn’t have the time or inclination to bring all the words necessary to answer the charge–which, incidentally had nothing to do with the post, and which is the Usual Accusation of the more progressive against those who think that Jesus has to be taken at his word. Jesus ate with sinners, they... Read more
Someone asked a very reasonable question some indeterminate time ago which I neglected to answer and felt very very bad about, so I’m devoting myself to answering it now. The question was, essentially, If I’ve never read any PG Wodehouse, where should I start? And of course I couldn’t just easily answer it because it’s such an Important Matter, and requires so much thought and consideration that I’ve been sitting on it for some time–such a long time, in fact,... Read more
Friday. Therefore Takes. One It’s snowing! And it looks like we bombed Syria during the night! Fun! Ok, so this is why I’m developing an allergy to the word ‘we’. As social discourse fractures and we have to every day choke down the ever ripening fruit of the philosophical presuppositions of secular humanism, progressivism, man’s ever upward journey to utopia, and the glorious idol of the last century, ‘the individual’, the word ‘we’ is tripping me up every. single. time.... Read more
So, yesterday I chattered away about all the annoying possibilities for women in the church–the Duggar Option, the Ray Romano Option, the Giving Up Option, the Backing Furtively Away Option. I started with three but it looks like it morphed into four. We needn’t worry too much about how many there are and what to call them. The fact is, since that long lost edenic landscape, men and women have never been able to comfortably sort themselves out. Some millennia... Read more
So, I very meanly played to my base yesterday (I love y’all) which necessarily won me a couple of comments from them that are already haters. These can be summed up under ‘Who Are You’ which is almost as good as ‘I Can’t Even.’ I love modern discourse so much. As anyone will tell you, I wander around my house muttering, ‘I can’t even’ just for the way it rolls off the tongue. It’s like the perfect expression. But, of... Read more
Matt most kindly sent me something this morning to wake up. I’ll have to thank him later. If you have theological nerves of steel, you can go read all about how Ms. Jory Micah, with her ‘husband by her side’ is going to be packing up and moving to start a church. Here’s a taste of what you can expect if you decide to join up with them. ‘God gave me the name, “The Table.” It will be a ministry... Read more
Good Moaning. Woke up and got cracking super early (that’s a little joke) on a podcast in which we sound off wildly about the various advantages and disadvantages of the Billy Graham Rule. Pretty sure we offend everyone it’s possible to offend. Enjoy! First up, here is the excellent article by KSP to which we referred above. And then, hmm, let’s see, the Federalist article about the Benedict Option that I also mentioned. And speaking of the the problems of... Read more
Touched a nerve yesterday, I think, with my brief rant about the moralizing nature of so many books. Amy Marie commented, most astutely, that the Bible and Plutarch, ‘are suppose to be the best books for no moralizing…Just black and white facts.’ Not that I’ve read Plutarch, but I’ve often felt that about the Bible, and one reason I’ve never really doubted that it’s all true. The bland record of the hideous sins of its ‘heroes‘ is most extraordinary. The... Read more
The rain turned to snow just now and there’s some kind bird shrieking outside my window. I can’t fathom what there is to be excited about. The landscape is like fifty different shades of….you guessed it. This week a remarkable and happy thing occurred. My endocrinologist divulged from the mercy of her wisdom a small bottle of pills (actually, I got them from the pharmacy) that promise to cope with the complete dysfunction of my thyroid. Rather than healing itself,... Read more
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