Coming Untrue

“Let’s start calling it servant lordship instead." — Doug Wilson

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Sunday, April 30, 2023

Wrath and Discipline

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Back in May 2018, the Southern Baptist Convention had a series of what appeared to be #MeToo moments: accusations of an “avalanche of sexu...
Saturday, April 29, 2023

Mining the Minors: Habakkuk (3)

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So far, Habakkuk’s prophecy has taken the form of a Q&A session with God. The prophet has bemoaned God’s apparent lack of interest in ...
Friday, April 28, 2023

Cognitive Dissonance

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My youngest son was going out the door this afternoon, trying to figure out what to wear. He asked, “Is it a warm twelve degrees or a cold...

Too Hot to Handle: Billy Graham Regrets …

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In which our regular writers toss around subjects a little more volatile than usual. Evangelist Billy Graham , in a 1977 interview with...
Thursday, April 27, 2023

The Christ-Shaped Empty Space

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Regarding last week’s post about spiritual narcissism, one further thought has been with me lately. The attraction to following a sing...
Wednesday, April 26, 2023

Amalekites Revisited

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I love looking at Old Testament stories and tracing history through its books. Sometimes I try to draw practical lessons from the things t...
Tuesday, April 25, 2023

The Problem of Genocide

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I have had a number of opportunities to talk about the Bible with co-workers over the years, but I am usually careful not to do it on comp...
Monday, April 24, 2023

Anonymous Asks (246)

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“Is it wrong to pray for your ex back?” When a relationship ends, it is axiomatic that the partner who ends it suffers less than the par...
Sunday, April 23, 2023

What Does Your Proof Text Prove (27)

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“Then they turned back and came to En-mishpat (that is, Kadesh) and defeated all the country of the Amalekites , and also the Amorites wh...
Saturday, April 22, 2023

Mining the Minors: Habakkuk (2)

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Manifest Destiny was an ideology promoted by newspaper editor John L. O’Sullivan in the 1850s in order to justify the annexation of Texas ...
Friday, April 21, 2023

Too Hot to Handle: The Virtual Soapbox

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In which our regular writers toss around subjects a little more volatile than usual. IC and I watched a video the other day. Not in the...
Thursday, April 20, 2023

The Pastor of Disaster

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Andrew sat back and stirred his tea. “What kind of church are you in?” he asked. “Well,” I said, “I was in a conservative evangelical g...
Wednesday, April 19, 2023

Wisdom to Know the Difference

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Remember the ‘Serenity Prayer’? Alcoholics Anonymous used it all the time, and sometimes credited it to an early twentieth century theolog...
Tuesday, April 18, 2023

The Language of the Debate (7)

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When a 28-year old former student who identified as a man shot and killed six people, including three nine-year olds, at a private Christi...
Monday, April 17, 2023

Anonymous Asks (245)

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“Can a believer be content to live a worldly life?” There’s probably a “no true Scotsman”-type answer to questions like this one, where ...
Sunday, April 16, 2023

The Commentariat Speaks (26)

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Talk show host David Pakman comments on Twitter about the recent spree shooting at a Nashville Christian school: “Very surprising that ...
Saturday, April 15, 2023

Mining the Minors: Habakkuk (1)

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We have been moving through this study of the Minor Prophets in as close to chronological order as possible. Our last book was Nahum. Inte...
Friday, April 14, 2023

Too Hot to Handle: Snatched Up

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In which our regular writers toss around subjects a little more volatile than usual. Tom: So we did the Millennium, IC. Care to walk m...
Thursday, April 13, 2023

Dear Dinesh: On Evil and Suffering

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[Dinesh D’Souza is a writer, scholar, filmmaker and Christian apologist.] Dear Dinesh: Thank you very, very much for your 2007 book, ...
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Wednesday, April 12, 2023

Glory Unassailable

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“When Christ who is our life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.” A friend and older brother in Christ who has been a...
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