Last weekend our parish celebrated an ecclesiastical birthday of sorts* and I’d like to share some thoughts in the wake of that event. How did we commemorate this event, that is besides the obligatory brunch?The answer: With a memorial service devoted to the memory of all members of our parish . . . . Continue Reading »
“It is the unhurried meditation on gospel truths and the exposing of our minds to these truths that yields the fruit of sanctified character.”— Maurice Roberts, The Thought of GodOr as my friend Ray Ortlund says, “Stare at the glory of God until you see it.”Very few . . . . Continue Reading »
Doug Estes anticipates his forthcoming book SimChurch: Being the Church in a Virtual World with an article at Christianity Today’s Out of Ur blog: In Defense of Virtual Church.The opening paragraph contains perhaps the least thoughtful thing I’ve ever read at Out of Ur:If we read . . . . Continue Reading »
Got stuff to do the rest of the day and not likely to be back until bed-time. One last stir of the ol’ pot here and I’m off:In spite of my poking his eye for being jaded, I think Joe Carter is onto something.And here’s my one-liner for the discussion so far: I see politics (not . . . . Continue Reading »
Has Benedict XVI become an evangelical? Pope Encourages Personal Relationship With . . . . Continue Reading »
Barbara Coombs Lee, head honcho at the assisted suicide advocacy group Compassion and Choices, has written a column in the Huffington Post that lies about me. She doesn’t mention my name, perhaps because that would permit people to look me up and find out for themselves about whether . . . . Continue Reading »
I’m intrigued by the discussion about the Christian’s role in politics being carried on by Frank, Jared, Matthew, Doug Wilson, and Dr. Beckwith. My own sympathies shift back and forth depending on whose post I’m reading; they are all very convincing. While I don’t want to . . . . Continue Reading »
From the very outset, the term ‘culture wars’ was misleading. Not that it wasn’t apropos — for, indeed, as all could see, there were different cultures contending over not just authority but power in America, many cultures in one manner but, in another, at rock bottom, only . . . . Continue Reading »
According to a Washington Post editorial, ” Open to Vouchers? ” Michelle Rhee, the head of the Washington, DC public education system recently testified before Congress that “she could not in good conscience tell a parent today to put his or her child in a traditional [Washington, . . . . Continue Reading »
There is an old saying: You can drag a horse to water but you can’t make him drink. I think this aphorism is relevant to Obamacare’s prescription that each of us be required legally to buy health insurance—and perhaps even face jail—for refusing to do so and pay the . . . . Continue Reading »
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