Excellent, from Andrée Seu Peterson: Sometimes I wonder if the inventors of the other LGBT brand are a tad embarrassed. They keep having to add new letters to their acronym, and the more they tack on the weaker their case looks. In simpler days when it was merely an...
Culture
Evangelical Atheism
Two posts for the price of one: 1. This is an absolutely fantastic, must-read article by non-evangelical atheist John Gray. It’s probably just as well that the current generation of atheists seems to know so little of the longer history of atheist movements. When they...
Harm, Consent, and Fifty Shades of Sexual Liberation
Why I can't help but read Doug Wilson, writing on Fifty Shades of Grey: If you create a world defined by the excitement of breaking taboos, then how is an insistence upon "mutual agreement" anything but the creation of the final taboo? Secular moral philosopher...
Wise Anecdote
A conservative describes his experience with radical secularist liberalism as a student at Harvard: In the intolerance, I also saw hope. During one particularly memorable day, when radicals started shrieking when I questioned why our professor referred to an unborn...
Cutting Both Ways
One big thing I like about presuppositionalism is that it gives me these special gloves—gauntlets, I guess—that I can use in one of two ways. I can throw them down, of course. But I can also catch swords when they're swung at me. I catch the sword, pull it out of my...
Human Rights and Responsibilities
I thought this was really insightful: The latter—the teaching of natural law and natural rights—is the view from the American founding. We may take our bearings from the first paragraph of the Declaration of Independence, which speaks of “the Laws of Nature and of...
Pop Culture and Instant Gratification
I can't recommend Ken Myers' All God's Children and Blue Suede Shoes highly enough. The IPP quotient (Insights Per Page) is probably higher than anything I've ever read outside a C.S. Lewis essay. Here's just one: Popular culture says, in effect, that nothing...
“Take Me to Church”: A Christian Review
“Take Me to Church,” by the Irish artist Hozier, is a global hit, reaching the number one slot in 12 countries and the top 10 in 21 more. It has gone triple platinum in the U.S. Here's the opening verse: My lover's got humor; She's the giggle at a funeral, Knows...
Help Attributing Al Mohler Quote
Friends, I need to find the attribution for the following: Al Mohler was being interviewed by a secular journalist. “Why are conservative Christians so hung up on homosexuality?” asked the journalist. “I don’t know that we are,” replied the Christian leader. “You’re...
Two Insightful Insights
An old article I was going back over had two insightful, um, insights: If you ask Hollywood liberals themselves about the liberalism of their work, the answer generally depends on how you pose the question. If you frame it in terms of social responsibility, they will...
Bob Jones Seminary Conference Back On
Terrible weather postponed this conference when it was first planned last year (or was it two years ago?). Now it's back on. I've got limited time, but I hope to hear several of the presentations live. For readers not in Greenville, I'll try to remember to post some...
David Brooks Is a Fundamentalist
An otherwise wise and helpful column from David Brooks—a column noting that it's somewhat hypocritical for American liberals to defend Charlie Hebdo's anti-Muslim provocations—takes an epistemologically naive turn at this point: Provocateurs and ridiculers expose the...