One of my new precious book acquisitions is another anthology by William J. Bennett, The Book of Man: Readings on the Path to Manhood. Today, I read The Funeral Oration of Pericles. At the end of the first year of the 27-year Peloponnesian War between...
One of the main ways we can reduce the acrimony in our society is to stop proposing that government should solve all our problems. Specifically, regardless of our political orientation, we should shy away from “coercive legislation,” that is, laws that either prohibit or fund...
For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing...
Author and podcaster Jeff Goins has a great productivity podcast, and a while back he discussed the five drafts or stages your writing goes through. Here’s my summary: Junk Draft: Get the bulk of your idea out on paper, 500 to 1000 words a day...
As yet another high profile evangelical departs from centuries of orthodoxy on the issue, we have to ask ourselves, what is happening, and should we question our own position on the issue? If the tide of public opinion is shifting against the traditional view, should we join it or get ready to defend it?
In Part 1, I covered Dr. Daniel Kirk’s pro-gay theology. In this concluding article, we cover the pro-hetero theology of Dr. Robert Gagnon, and draw some conclusions. Dr. Robert Gagnon’s Hetero-normative Points 1. Core values of scripture Dr. Gagnon first laid down the principle that some moral and ethical...
This debate is probably one of the more advanced theological debates on the subject, miles from the simplistic first-tier arguments. It is also interesting to me because the pro-gay theologian, Dr. Daniel Kirk, was my NT prof at Fuller Theological Seminary. Taking the traditional position...
Many of us suffer under the illusion that only “born artists” are creative, and the rest of us are just ungifted. But it turns out, creativity, like reading, writing, or public speaking, is a basic skill that anyone can learn. No, we are not all...
