Potpourri (mostly political) 9/25/18
1 I apologize if I’ve quoted this before, but I’m a retired lawyer, I’ve watched SCOTUS for decades, and I can’t stop mulling this over. Here goes: I can imagine two operative standards for a nominee...
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As if on cue, an example of today’s version of satanic banality. I’m really sticking my neck out on this, but here goes. But first, remember the conclusion to my latest blog when you parse “satanic”:...
View ArticleThe PCA and The Nashville Statement
[The Presbyterian Church in America (PCA)] endorsing the Nashville Statement was an odd move. The Statement itself is a jumble. It purports to be a broad account of Christian teachings on sexuality,...
View ArticleTaking the bait
Some people are taking Farhad Manjoo’s slow-day op-ed exscrecence more seriously than I did. Sometimes a piece of writing so perfectly distills a cultural moment and mood that it deserves to be given...
View ArticleSingle standards
Should any creative professionals be compelled to create? Continue reading →
View ArticleThe moral horse and the doctrinal cart
What kind of squishy Kum-Bah-Yah cult teaches "spiritual formation *before* doctrinal instruction"!?
View Article“Pro-Abortion” is now official (more)
Blogging the ineffable It occurred to me recently that my blog is an odd project because, increasingly, the things that matter most to me are ineffable. I’ve read at least one book that “effed the...
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Phantom Jesuses There have been too many historical Jesuses—a liberal Jesus, a pneumatic Jesus, a Barthian Jesus, a Marxist Jesus. They are the cheap crop of each publisher’s list, like the new...
View ArticleMarch 5, 2024
Hard to believe, but I've hit gold in the past few days, and I'm sharing stuff on art, IVF, and some pretty good stuff beyond that.
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