For a solid couple of hours the world stood still and people existed solely to entertain each other.
Against Prisons
Think about it. If someone breaks into your house, steals your television, and then is caught, would you not rather the person repay you for the television than you pay for the person’s incarceration via taxation?
The Biggest Fallacy of American Soccer
The question is not about whether our best athletes are being drawn to other sports, the question is whether American children are touching a soccer ball outside of organized practices and games. Unfortunately, in most cases the answer is “no.”
Tom Bombadil and the Christian Life
Jesus once said that whoever believes in him with overflow with rivers of living water (John 7:38). Bombadil is this type of character. The typical modern man is like a void or a vacuum: hoping to fill itself with something. Bombadil is like a spring or a river: full and simultaneously filling those around him.
Forgetting What We Never Knew
They will not remember, but they will not be the same. They are real, whole, and complete people. Being able to remember is not the defining element of time being important. They are changing. They are growing. They are being disciplined. They are developing rather funny personalities.
home is where the plants are
Even today, as I write this, my new plumber just told me the
The New Testament Tells the End of the Story
The Old and New Testaments build on and relate to each other as much as the chapters of a really good book; even more so actually. Thus, if we are to understand both testaments as we should, we need to be intimately acquainted with both, not just the New.
Baptism Belongs to the Church
Families are never authorities over other parents. Thus, the baptism of one family's conviction can not be binding on another. If it is merely preference than it cannot be binding. Parents are never the entity that determines the doctrinal demands of other families. Only the church can do that.
Real Anarchy
The difference between an anarchist and their opponent in this situation is not that an anarchist wants chaos and their opponent
A False Hermeneutic of Love
"Love" is not something we are given apart from Jesus Christ. Neither is it something we can give apart from Christ. Love in us is our emulation of God's love.
The Bible Code
The “Bible code” is not mysterious or secret. The Bible code is clearly presented before our eyes in almost every page of scripture. Furthermore, the key to the "code" is Jesus.
Top Reads This Week (5/31 – 6/6)
The following links are to articles I've read in the past 7 days that I found particularly stimulating and/or insightful. Enjoy!
everyone's sad
He's the soundtrack when your heart is breaking. This is kind of his whole deal: sad music for sad people.
Liberalism: Defined By Its Starting Point
Liberty and equality for the sake of liberty and equality cannot sustain itself. Liberty and equality must be for something, it must be toward something.
Church Calendars, National Calendars, & Hallmark Calendars
Individual choice, instant gratification, and sensory titillation are stalwarts in the American church because they are stalwarts in American secularism: the true enculturating power behind much of American Christianity. The church has been called to be a new world within the bounds of an old world. Yet we seem to content ourselves with the ways and world of the first Adam even while we are called to pray for the kingdom of the second Adam to come on Earth as it is in heaven.
Looking Forward
This isn’t something I can just do away with. I can’t remove it from me. I wish I could. I have spent many nights, praying, crying, weeping for God to take it away. Crying because I keep failing. Weeping because I don’t know that I will ever be able to have the family and life that I so desperately crave, and instead the feeling of impending loneliness descends on me.
Sluggish Imaginations
The task of our day, much like C.S. Lewis proposed in The Abolition of Man, is a recovery of the imagination. Modern culture has indoctrinated us from our earliest years that the world is a powerful and pointless machine that cannot be stopped. All too often we do not have the imaginative powers to overcome this lie. But the first step to overcoming all evils is to see the evil for what it is. Perhaps Christians will begin to heed the warnings of the likes of Eliot, Percy, and Lewis and question whether they have succumb to the numbness of Modernity and their imaginations too are sluggish.
Top Reads This Week (5/24 – 5/30)
Here I compile the best things I've read online from this past week!
How ‘How I Met Your Mother’ Met My Anger
For shame, Mr. Thomas. For shame, Mr. Bays.
Christianity in the Movies
All too often we believe that externals are not important. Style,