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Category Archives: Culture commentary
Why “Anything you want it to be for” is not a good answer to the question “What is marriage for”
Following up my my previous blog post on marriage and on Facebook conversations about the question. You said “you cannot define what a marriage is for for everyone” but that is in fact the purpose of US law. You don’t … Continue reading
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The Obvious and More Important Question Not Asked in the Same Sex Marriage Debate
A Better Question The dual events of Obama’s endorsement of same-sex marriage and the North Carolina amendment has inflamed Internet comment streams on the subject. The debate is predictably about rights, access, equality, morality, separation of church and state, etc. The … Continue reading
Options to Endure Suffering
and what is needed to sustain a liberal democracy. This follows the transcript of the video done by Nick Wolterstorff and Miroslav Volf. I thought the whole interview was terrific, but the part that really caught my imagination was the … Continue reading
Why Felt Compassion Isn’t Quite Enough
Kristen Tennant on “Religion without stories…” (the comments are good too) It follows news reports on a study that suggests highly religious people are less motivated by compassion than they are from dogma. In the comments on this posting someone … Continue reading
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Is the Bible a Human or Divine Product?
I wrote this as a response to a posting on Calvin-In-Common on a reported conclusion of Marcus Borg that the Bible is a human product, not a divine one. Human product or a divine one? I couldn’t let that assertion … Continue reading
The God Who Weeds
On All About Android this week one of the reviewers shared a game called Babel Rising where you are God and you can smite men building the tower of Babel. Ron Richards was having a great time with it. I … Continue reading
Insecure allergic reactionaries
This is the human condition. We long to be seen but are terrified of rejection or judgment. When Jesus says “broad is the road that leads to destruction” he is not exaggerating. There are more ways into hell than there … Continue reading
Playing the Victim as Perversion of Created Identity and the Gospel
Part of what we have unfortunately learned from our broader culture is manipulative tactic of playing the victim. This tactic I think is an ironic perversion of one of the most important gospel additions to our culture which is respect … Continue reading
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On Conflict and Convincing and another proof of the existence of Hell
Following a post on the CRC Network over Women in Office and Classis that I knew would be conflicted. We all have our points of view and one of the things we desire from language and deliberation is the possibility … Continue reading
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The Same Sex Marriage Debate and our Romantic Idolatries
In a FB conversation with some friends they wanted to know what I thought. I told them that I though the lesbian couple down the street with the two children they are parenting ought to look the same before the … Continue reading →