Dale Ralph Davis on Micro-Salvation
Every time God lifts you out of the miry bog and sets your feet upon a rock is a sample of the coming of the kingdom of God, a down payment of the full deliverance, the macro-salvation that will be yours at last. 1 Samuel: Looking on the Heart, 25.
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Google and Privacy
Every once in a while I give in to the temptation to write an assertive post despite believing firmly that there must be an alternative perspective of which I am unaware. I'm afraid I'm bowing to the rules of the blog genre: I'm posting this despite my ignorance. (I'm not quite following the rules of the genre, however, because I have waited a long time to post this.) Here's the issue: Internet privacy. I have never been able to figure out why some people object to Google or Facebook...
Dempster on Samson
A perceptive observation from a book full of such insights into the Old Testament: Stephen Dempster: The structure of Judges shows that Israel gradually descends into a moral and political quagmire, and this is mirrored in the sequence of judges themselves, most of whom are questionable characters. But the last one is a particularly striking mirror-image of the nation. Samson, the supernaturally born Israelite, was set apart as a Nazirite with a distinctive vocation. He constantly breaks his...
Freeloading Atheists
Justice has to have strong foundations if it is to remain resilient in the face of the world’s many threats. Secularism denies having any ultimate, absolute foundations. Therefore it won’t be able to sustain any commitments to true justice. Any foundations it has are borrowed from other value systems, mainly Christianity. Here’s “postmodernist bourgeois liberal” Richard Rorty in a revealing quote: [It is] part of our tradition … that [a] stranger from whom all dignity has been stripped...