How can you argue about homosexual marriage in the American public square but yet argue from Scripture—while still making appropriately couched appeals to scientific studies? Listen to Doug Wilson debating gay conservative blogger Andrew Sullivan (whose blog I used to...
Culture
Racism and Homophobia
Alarmists have been warning about coming American persecution of Christians—or exaggerating existing persecution—for a long time. It's a staple of those (supposedly type-written) fundraising letters sent out by parachurch groups. I've always been impatient and...
The Darwinist Mob
I've blogged about Thomas Nagel a bit before. I have not read his Mind and Cosmos, but I've read a good deal about it, and I've found the conversation fascinating and, more importantly, important! Here's the latest summing up of the controversy, from an excellent...
Review: The Liberal Arts: A Student’s Guide
The Liberal Arts: A Student's Guide by Gene C. Fant Jr. My rating: 2 of 5 stars Sometimes I skip to the end of a book review when I'm reading it in a rush. I think I'll try that while writing one: don't buy this book. Get Al Wolters' Creation Regained instead. Now on...
An Excellent BJU Chapel Message
My valued friend and one-time interview guest, BJU preaching instructor Kerry McGonigal, preached a great message in BJU chapel today. He used the whole book of 1 Peter to argue for a particular kind of response to our culture's intolerance of Christianity. I would...
Ethan Watters in Must-Read Article about WEIRD Westerners (http://bit.ly/12Ei6M3)
A modern liberal arts education gives lots of lip service to the idea of cultural diversity. It’s generally agreed that all of us see the world in ways that are sometimes socially and culturally constructed, that pluralism is good, and that ethnocentrism is bad. But...
The Two Closets, Or Practicing Christian Liberty
In the very first month of this blog's existence, I posted some detailed sermon notes from a particularly helpful message (and that's saying something) that my beloved pastor, Mark Minnick, had preached to his congregation. With his permission, I turned those notes...
An Insight from Lesslie Newbigin
I laughed out loud at the bolded portion below. This shows some real insight. Recently I have heard on several occasions Christians accusing one another, either of too much certainty, or of too little. We are all familiar with both accusations. There is, on the one...
R.C. Sproul Jr. (Tabletalk March 2013, p. 28; bit.ly/Vj0KA9)
Today there is no suggestive music anymore, because "suggestive" implies a measure of subtlety.
Natural Law
A growing (?) number of conservative evangelicals are becoming aware of natural law arguments in the public square. These arguments are attractive because We know from experience that bringing up the Bible directly in public debates won't likely get us anywhere. The...
Partially Unnecessary Polarization
LGBT leader Shane Windmeyer on his personal meetings with Dan Cathy of Chick-fil-A: During our meetings I came to see that the Chick-fil-A brand was being used by both sides of the political debate around gay marriage. The repercussion of this was a deep division and...
Christians in the Public Square
Chapter 7 of Tim Keller's Generous Justice provides a very useful summary of theologically sound advice for Christians in the public square. His thesis is that "Christians' work for justice should be characterized by both humble cooperation and respectful...