Wise Observation from Ken Myers
C.S. Lewis said one of the distinctive aspects of the modern mind is the assumption that newer things are always better. We've become preoccupied with things we don't have, rather than with the nurturing and stewarding of things we do have. My favorite example of this is the shift since the 1970s toward informality in public. People used to wear coats and ties to go to a baseball game, and now they wear a ball cap at church. We've moved away from formality toward informality in almost every...
Our Embarrassment of Translational Riches
We have an embarrassment of riches in our English Bible translations. Today I was texting a particular man whom my church's outreach ministries have had a lot of contact with over the last few years. The last time I spoke with him he was in a very bad situation, and it fell to me to encourage him to repent from the sins that got him there. He didn't take it well, and I haven't seen him since. I decided to contact him again while clearing out old texts. He has a sort of churchy background, and...
Worldview and Sexuality: Ideas Have Consequences
View image | gettyimages.com Jennifer Roback Morse, in an excellent article on the Sexual Revolution: The modern world is living out the Revolutionary view of sexuality and of the cosmos. We act as if we believe that we are alone in a meaningless and indifferent universe, as if we ourselves have no intrinsic value, that our sexual acts have no meaning apart from the meaning we assign them, that our sexual acts are simply the actions of mindless particles bumping into each other from no...
A Real-Life Heather on Her Two Mommies
An important insight from a real-life Heather with two mommies, who writes with empathy and respect for her mother, but who grew up needing a dad: Gay marriage doesn’t just redefine marriage, but also parenting. It promotes and normalizes a family structure that necessarily denies us something precious and foundational. It denies us something we need and long for, while at the same time tells us that we don’t need what we naturally crave. That we will be okay. But we’re not. We’re...
I ♥ C.S. Lewis
My Kindle library of Lewis titles (most of which were $2 or so, thanks to Gospel Ebooks):