Posted in Uncategorized on April 23, 2007 | 1 Comment »
On Raising Men
This is an excellent post worth reading. Here’s the first paragraph:
When my boys were three and four, they spent a good bit of time patrolling the perimeter of the back yard with stick guns. One day they were making particularly gruesome sound effects and my feminine squeamishness, which I try to keep tamped [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on April 15, 2007 | No Comments »
Why Homosexuality + Love ≠ Christianity
This excellent article by a friend of mine shows why SoulForce and other groups which claim that it is un-Christian to condemn homosexual behavior, or deny Christian fellowship to those who practice it, are themselves un-Christian and in opposition to the clear words of God in Scripture.
Read it.
Posted in Reformed Theology, Theology and Discipleship on April 14, 2007 | No Comments »
It’s true that reflective faith is not saving faith. You don’t have to “have faith in your faith” in order to be saved. Faith is really nothing more than believing Christ’s promise to be true. You don’t have to work anything up in your own heart. And yet, this kind of belief is the hardest thing in the world precisely because it cannot be worked up. You cannot convince yourself of it. This is the glorious mystery of saving faith; it is a gift from God. No one is even capable of believing Christ’s promises unless that faith is placed in his or her heart.
Posted in Democracy, Ethics, Organizations, philosophy, political theory on April 8, 2007 | No Comments »
From Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America (Mansfield trans.):
“I do not know any country where, in general, less independence of mind and genuine freedom of discussion reign than in America.” (244)
“In America the majority draws a formidable circle around thought. Inside those limits the writer is free; but unhappiness awaits him if he dares to [...]
Posted in Ethics, Faith & Reason, philosophy, sexuality on April 7, 2007 | No Comments »
When sex is “free,” it is valued less; the sense of wonder that it ought to create is diminished; it does not provoke the kind of soul-searching and development that ought to accompany a young person’s rise to adulthood. A young person ought to struggle until love, reason, sex, faith, and virtue are brought together in an understanding of what it truly means to be human. Humanity means not only being the greatest of the animals, but being as far superior to them as they are to the inanimate things.
