A Protestant Note Or Two on “Silence” a Year Out
I know I’m late to the game, but I finally watched Scorcese’s film adaptation of Shūsaku Endō’s novel “Silence” this last weekend. My wife and I took it in two parts, since I don’t do well with...
View Articlethe call to sexual holiness is unavoidable
Recently at London Review of Books, Amia Srinivasan published a very interesting and very profane (reader warning) article entitled, “Does Anyone Have the Right to Sex?” She begins by examining the...
View ArticlePerhaps Just One More Thesis on Church Discipline?
Wes Hill has written a provocative reflection on the matter of church discipline (or seeming lack thereof) in the Episcopal and Anglican communions. Framed around the challenge of his Reformed friends...
View ArticleMichal, the Worship Cynic
The story of the return of the Ark to Jerusalem is fascinating and multi-layered (2 Samuel 6). The theology surrounding the punishment of Uzzah’s transgression against the ark. The blessing of the...
View ArticleRevisiting the Progressive Evangelical Package (Mere-O)
A few years ago I wrote a piece for Mere O called, “The Progressive Evangelical Package.” It probably helps to read it before proceeding. Simply put, though, before the language of “tribes” and “tribal...
View ArticleCounter-Cultural Bravery is Relative
Once you think about it for a minute, it’s very obvious, but I’ve wanted to make this point for a while: counter-cultural bravery is a relative phenomenon. Take the obvious example of someone uttering...
View ArticleNo Quarter
One of the most pernicious trends in our current discourse around, well, just about any subject, is the suspicion that you can never concede a point to the other side. Never concede that partisans of...
View ArticleOn Making it Personal (Or, One and Half Cheers for ‘Abstraction’)
If you’ve spent much time discussing any ethical issue of great import, you know there are times when it’s appropriate to ask someone, “What if it was your kid? Would you still take this position? Or...
View ArticleSure it’s All Negative World, But What Kind of Negative World?
Everybody’s been talking about Aaron Renn’s “Three Worlds of Evangelicalism” thesis as well as the various uses to which it’s been put by folks like James Wood and others. The nutshell is that in...
View ArticleA Note on “Strategy” and the Three Worlds
Alan Jacobs was unconvinced at my argument that, even putting aside the individual merits of Renn’s Three World’s Thesis, that sort of heuristic or analysis, or asking the question “is there a...
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