RSSEntries from March 2008
Horton Hears A Pro-Life Message?
Last Saturday we took the kids to see the movie Horton Hears a Who.
It was a lot of fun.
I heard more than a Who. “Who” else detected a pretty strong pro-life theme? Was it on purpose or did Horton’s motto “a life is a life no matter how small” accidently strike [...]
Is Obama Wright or Wrong?
The DRC has been silent on the controversy surrounding Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama and his spiritual mentor the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Like most Americans I have been extremely interested to learn of Wright’s homiletical follies, his race baiting, his white bashing, his America denouncing, and his conspiracy theories. I am shocked to find [...]
Can Westminster Seminary Put the Genie Back in the Bottle?
People may not know but the blogosphere has revealed that Westminster Seminary (Philadelphia) is about to hold a decisive meeting of the board at which the fate of Pete Enns may well be decided. Enns, of course, is the author of the controversial book, Inspiration and Incarnation: Evangelicals and the Problem of the Old [...]
A Hard Question for a Good Friday
According to the Christian Church calendar, today is Good Friday. It is a day of solemn remembrance of the agonizing death of Christ by crucifixion. It is the day of the cross.
Of course, Reformed Protestants have never been big on the church calendar but it is rather upsetting how the culture [...]
Gorbachev honors Christ
Ronald Reagan told close friends that he believed his Soviet counterpart was a “closet believer.”
The last Communist leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev has come out of the closet with a visit to the tomb of Saint Francis of Assisi.
History will recorded the central role played by the Christian faith in destroying the specter [...]
Lessons from the Bear Stearns Crisis
Here’s an important post from Georgetown professor Patrick Deneen. He draws out some of the moral lessons to be learned from this latest financial fiasco.
When will we learn that bigger is not always better? Bigness is killing us.
HT: Rod Dreher
Allan Carlson: The End of Homeschooling?
Liberty is under attack in California. Read Allan Carlson’s excellent analysis of the situation in California.
Rethinking National Confession
To the RPCNA I owe my new life in Christ. She is my mother and I dearly love her.
In loyalty to my mother I have tried to work through her doctrine of the mediatorial Kingship of Christ over the nations and to defend its 20th Century application National Confessionalism. I have always found [...]
New York’s The Incorruptible lost his head
Spitzer has fallen. A tyrant in the making will have no political future. Good riddance!
Still, I cannot help but following the story of Governor Spitizer’s tragic fall without feeling a deep sense of pity and even empathy.
Here are my scattered thoughts on the events:
1. Like Robespierre, Spitzer created [...]
More Family Wisdom from Luther
Luther was just plain brilliant. Here’s a follow-up to the post from earlier this week. Lest you think that he was only a comedian, here are some seriously profound words about married life. From Volume 45 of his Works…
Now observe that when that clever harlot, our natural reason (which the pagans [...]