Torrey Gazette

You’ll find stories that are far less concerned with gadgets than they are with the mind and soul of man.

Jun 24

Jun 24 Whether We Like it Or Not

As a culture we do not know the truth and we are in bondage. We are in bondage in the worse way, we are in bondage to ourselves.

Jun 22

Jun 22 Flawless Illusions

"You think so? Illusions are dangerous people. They have no flaws."

Jun 18

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?

Jun 9

Jun 9 Real Anarchy

The difference between an anarchist and their opponent in this situation is not that an anarchist wants chaos and their opponent wants order. To the contrary, the anarchist is opposed to legally sanctioned and government approved moral atrocities, while their opponent seems to be fine with these things.

Jun 8

Jun 8 A False Hermeneutic of Love

Culture, Life

"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.

Jun 3

Jun 3 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.

Jun 2

Jun 2 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.

Jun 1

Jun 1 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.

May 23

May 23 Pardon My Sneezes

Corey Poff

Pardon my sneezes, but like Detective Del Spooner, "I'm allergic to bullsh*t."

May 20

May 20 We Should First Ask: "Which State"

In almost all modern discussions of the relationship between church and state the current political (statist) structure is assumed. This means that we must figure out how a church can relate to the existing structure of the state. What is hardly ever brought up in these discussions of the relationship of church and state is whether the state as we currently have is should be changed at its core.

May 19

May 19 Catcher in the Rye: A Blind Test of Beer

My heart was left in rye-francisco. I began my infatuation with rye beers after putting pieces together.

May 18

May 18 Salvation Must Take a Social Form

Theology, Culture

If Christians begin to think this way about salvation then there is a strong chance the vitality and centrality of the church would not be overlooked as it so often is in our individualistic culture.

May 8

May 8 through a glass, darkly

Danielle Pollock

These are beers of such profound flavor, they deserve your undivided attention. Save these for after dinner, because with ABVs this high, you'll need to have food in your stomach or else you're going to be wobbling.

May 7

May 7 An Overdue Recap on Creation Week

Culture, Theology

Now that the review has published it is time for me to recap some thoughts on the books in general and their contributions to Genesis 1-2 and the fight for a historical Adam.

May 4

May 4 Uniquely "Me" Because of "You"

We are all uniquely individual. But our unique individuality can only be understood as it is born through the indwelling of others (like mothers through whom we are literally born).

Apr 22

Apr 22 The World is "Ready to Hand"

We are more-fully immersed and integrated into this world than our Descartian thinking-habits would like to admit.

Apr 20

Apr 20 "You" Before "I"

The consequences are dire when the church adopts a modern/liberal anthropology to determine it’s ecclesiology and discipleship. Unfortunately, this is the case in all too many churches. In many places we have assumed that children are not bound relationally to the church until they have made a decision to bind themselves to Christ. But this is Enlightenment thinking and not Biblical thinking.

Apr 16

Apr 16 Nine? Try NoMarks: A Response to Jonathan Leeman (Part 2)

The Scriptures teach moral responsibility from the womb. They teach faith from the womb. God can save at any age because salvation is a restored relationship to God not one's mental comprehension of Him.

Apr 15

Apr 15 Nine? Try NoMarks: A Response to Jonathan Leeman (Part 1)