It’s a Consensus World, After All?
…Islam, or defending the New Order. The cultural leadership chose the New Order. Shortly after that I heard Tim Keller, of Redeemer Church New York City, saying the same thing,…
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Why Does Talk About “Evangelism” Make Me Nervous?
…of ‘stewardship’ toward the institutional church, which the church, being a human institution as well as a divine one, will naturally be interested in! But I define ‘discipleship’ as “teaching…
Thoughts on St. Patrick’s Day
…than any other, “one man had converted a nation.” The Irish retained a lot of their own culture and literally founded a new branch of the Church, the Irish Orthodox,…
There’s More to the World than America
I am not all that upset about the November election, for two reasons: 1. The church is growing so fast in Africa and China that it more than makes up…
Why I am not a Communitarian
…form of authority we generally think of; it is the form that Fukuyama classifies as ‘Hierarchical–Rational’. Second is the church, in which I tend to include religious institutions in general…
Islamist Hypocrisy on Free Speech: Suppose They Got What They Wanted?
…to demean it. Similarly many Christians might hold that ultimately to reject Christ is to insult God. But Christians have 300 years of persecution at the beginning of the Church…
Where I’ve Been, And Why I Haven’t Posted In A While
…I took, though I did not take very many because it’s my wife’s hobby to photograph churches and ecclesiastical art and so I don’t try to compete with her in…
Melinda’s Choice Crusade for Women: Breaking the Planned Parenthood Monopoly?
…where the boy faced the shotgun wedding, or at least a long peonage to support his child. And, in regard to the recent fracas with the Catholic Church, does contraception…
L.A. vs San Francisco: Who Runs California?
…heritage is predominantly Quaker, a privatized culture, the state tends to be dominated politically by Pittsburgh and its Scotch-Irish Calivinist and Low Church Anglican heritage. Could San Francisco be the…
SLAP ‘EM AND WALK HOME – A way of promoting abstinence in our culture
…sex, domestic care, etc. – without committing? The church [and at one time the general culture] frankly recommends a Lysistrata-like strategy to deal with this! Instead of withholding sex until…