"Sometimes it’s easy to forget that we spend most of our time stumbling around in the dark." Read more
"Sometimes it’s easy to forget that we spend most of our time stumbling around in the dark." Read more
It's not that "we" didn't know any better before this new era of awareness. It's that "we" had not yet been forced to acknowledge that we knew better. Read more
Over at the Anxious Bench, Philip Jenkins* continues his thoughtful series on slavery, history, and memory. The first two posts in that series were here: “Slavery, History, and Relativism,” and “Should the Fact of Slave-holding Ruin Historical Reputations?” I think that concern with “reputations” is a mistake — a way of distracting ourselves from the meaning and implications of the very important questions Jenkins is grappling with there. I discussed that last week in this post: “Bad Reputation: The right... Read more
The best the reader can manage is to feel a measure of pity for four characters so earnestly desiring to be liked but so confused about what might make them likable — so intent on being admired, but so utterly clueless as to what is admirable. Read more
Carl Henry didn't like having to tell Frank Gaebelein not to praise the Civil Rights marchers. Ken Wilson's former Vineyard colleagues didn't enjoy having to tell him to be cruel. But they did it anyway because the people who write the checks demanded it. Read more
Here my imagination fails me. I have never seen such a thing. The real world has never seen such a thing on any meaningful scale. Is it even possible? I don't know. Read more
"Love worketh no ill to its neighbor: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law." Read more
Who gives a withered fig about reputation? Whitefield’s reputation doesn’t matter. Our “stance” regarding Whitefield’s reputation doesn’t matter. Whether or not Whitefield and Edwards should be “forgiven” and whether or not we personally should “forgive” them is a sleight-of-hand distraction from what really matters here. Read more
Our story takes us back to the airport, where no one seems the least bit jittery about getting back on a plane, even with the cracks and scorch marks still visible on the tarmac from the very recent catastrophe involving dozens of crashes. Read more
The gospel itself, Jubilee, is a kind of holy prank. "Discipleship" means, among other things, that you are now in on it. Read more
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