Justin Taylor writes: “18. Reject the theories of collectivist sin, guilt, or exoneration when dealing outside of a covenantal context.” Whether I agree with this statement depends on what counts as “a covenantal context.”
Rosie O’Donnell has begun her new job on ABC’s “The View” by claiming that “Christianity is just as threatening as radical Islam in a country like America where we have separation of church and state.” She went on to equate…
Ironically, Del, Dylan Thomas is the one Welshman I have time for, and the poem you quote is surely one of the masterpieces of the English langauge…. Anyway, Christianity Today has posted an interesting, albeit brief, blog on the prosperity…
Just FYI. A new Understanding the Times has been posted in this issue, as well as a few book reviews. Carl, I have made some self-deprecating statements about the Welsh.
Phil, thanks for that helpful, clarifying distinction with regard to multiracial churches. Well said.
I was struck by this description of social and intellectual attitudes in the ancient world in Ivor Davidson’s Birth of the Church (Baker):
The Welsh have not (generally) adopted that legacy of Platonism in post-Renaissance culture, commonly called “the stiff upper-lip.” The Welsh, you see, give voice to their complaints with reckless abandonment. Typical here is Wales’s most famous twentieth century poet and…
Many thanks to Justin for giving us some principles to use in dealing with issues of race in the church. I want to go farther with one of his principles, pushing for the kind of clarifty Justin advocates.. He writes:…
In his sermon “Servus Servorum” (or “Servant of Servants”), Charles Spurgeon speaks in favor of following Christ as our example, provided we first trust him as our Savior: “Years ago, Christ was set forth almost exclusively as an example. ‘Concerning…
It looks like Tony “the Gent” is now cropping up in other places in the blogosphere, and people are asking questions.
