Where Dalrymple accumulates a list of the symptoms of political and cultural decline. In late 2008, social critic Theodore Dalrymple published another round of essays called . Unfortunately, this anthology of essays is not his best… Too broad, lacking the element that made his other anthologies great–seamless, unrelenting focus. Dalrymple begins with six essays that sprawl across…
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On Sunday atheist blogger Daniel Florien capitalized on the murder of a pastor to promote his perennial case against the non-existence of God. Hardly surprising coming from a person who’s built a following on flushing out the circus acts of Christianity…declaring them normative…and then condemning Christianity in its entirety. Neither is it surprising coming from one who has…
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**Update April 8, 2010: I’ve closed comments today for two reasons. One, Jason’s removed his book from Google Books. I’m going to give him the benefit of the doubt and assume he removed it as an admission he doesn’t uphold what he wrote in that book, which brings me to my next point. The other reason…
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Here is where you are introduced to the strange concept of God’s self-sufficiency. God lacks nothing. Craves nothing. He has everything he needs in himself. In fact, to admit the existence of a need in God is to admit incompleteness in God. Why God created anything is a mystery then. We do know that the emphatic…
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Where you learn what the Reformation added to the discussion about God’s Trinity. The basic doctrine of the Trinity–one nature and three persons–survived the middle ages and the break with the Roman Catholic Church during the Protestant Reformation in the 16th Century. In fact, the doctrine’s been the same since the controversy was settled in the early…
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Where a lounge chair is used as a prop to demonstrate God doesn’t have a body. Yeah, blasphemous, I know. What does God’s omnipresence have to do with a man spread out on a lounge chair? Frankly…absolutely nothing. Yet, millions of people make the mistake–often innocently enough–of imagining God with a human body, throwing…
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In which I compile all my previous post for a simple, growing, definitive guide of God’s Trinity…darling. Yes. . .yet another post on the Trinity. But this time I’m compiling all my previous posts for a simple, growing, definitive guide. Here’s why I’m doing this. The Reason Why You Must Study God’s Trinity Listen: The…
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Where I learned that I was not the mission-machine I thought I was. Mardi Gras took me to lunch. When was the last time you were in a situation where you were petrified with fear? Where you were literally humiliated to the point you couldn’t even raise your head? Where you stammered through simple sentences…
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Discover the three characteristics of the Trinity you must know if you want to live a vivid, meaningful Christian life. What do you think: Does the doctrine of the Trinity even matter to your every day life? I mean, is it just some theological abstraction men in university auditoriums bicker about? Or does it have…
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Two ancient creeds and one council raise an ominous question: Should dead men define what we believe? Find out now. If you haven’t figured it out yet, we are building a head of steam towards a definitive guide to the doctrine of the Trinity. I know you so care. Regardless, far from being a rather…
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