Hi there. Welcome to my blog. You may have found it because it’s been posted on some conservative website, and you feel it’s your duty to steer readers away from my false teaching. Well, you’re welcome to do so. But, before you write your next comment, consider this: If all you do is call me a false teacher and then go on to cut and paste Bible verses into my comment section, you will be deleted. If you keep doing... Read more
Rod, it was great to meet you and sit on your front porch drinking coffee. Actually, it was even more wonderful to meet Julie and the kids, your chickens, and your incapacitated dog. I appreciated reading your story, and I’ll comment more on that on Monday. Over the next couple weeks, I know we’ll get into all manner of angles on the topic of same sex marriage, be they philosophical, theological, and biblical. But first, I’d like to wonder aloud... Read more
Dear New Christians Readers, Last week we implemented a small change to our blog commenting system – you now have to confirm that you are a real person, and not a spammer, by typing in a few characters of text upon submitting your comments. This change was necessary in order to curtail the amount of spam that many of our blogs have been receiving in the comments area. We know that some of you have experienced problems with the new... Read more
I met Rod yesterday, and we had a great time sitting on his porch, drinking coffee. I can say, with all candor, that I thoroughly enjoyed his company and now consider him a friend. I’m working on a post today which I hope to post later today. In the meantime, let me encourage you to read Rod’s initial post in our blogalogue and also Andrew Sullivan’s “stump speech” on SSM. And now, the always hilarious GraphJam: more music charts Read more
Rod, as I mentioned to you in an email, I thought it might be interesting to start our same sex marriage blogalogue by telling a bit of our stories — about how we came to our respective positions on the issue. So, here’s my story. I’m looking forward to meeting you at lunch tomorrow. I have a couple of vivid memories of the family room — we called it the “TV room” — in the house in which we lived... Read more
Same sex marriage is an emotional issue to begin with, and the stakes have been significantly upped by the passage of Prop 8. So I have no doubt that my blogalogue with Rod (which I intend to start tomorrow, on the eve of our lunch in Dallas) will provoke strong reactions in the comment section and in the blogosphere. I’m not averse to emotion in this conversation. Keith Olberman’s monologue last week is a good example of emotion being used... Read more
I imagine that I’ve got a smattering of new readers now that I’ve moved to Bnet, so let me reiterate my blogging rules, which I first iterated at theoblogy.blogspot.com and then at tonyj.net. 1) I do not edit my posts, ex post facto, but allow my mistakes, misjudgments, and misstatements to stand as a record of my idiocy. 2) I do not get involved in the comment section. I read all the comments, but I don’t respond; I let the... Read more
My soon-to-be-blogalogue partner, Rod Dreher, has today questioned Barack Obama’s profession of Christian faith based on a snippet of a 2004 interview in which BO refers to Jesus as a “bridge between God and man.” Of course, BO is not a trained theologian, so we might wish he would have chosen words that more precisely articulated the role of Jesus Christ in redemption, the equality of the second person of the Trinity with the Father and the Spirit, etc. But... Read more
If you don’t know it, getting “dooced,” means getting fired for blogging something that your employer finds odious. It’s a term coined by Heather Armstrong, who now blogs full time at dooce.com. Today, Scot McKnight blogs an email from a pastor who faces persecution because his vote for BO has become known to his congregation. I’ve received at least three emails to the same effect over the past two weeks. And honestly, I cannot think of a better example of... Read more
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