Revivalistic Christianity Requires a Christian Society? Not Quite.
Albert Mohler makes an interesting point: Third, looking specifically at the baptism numbers, the decline is both remarkable and lamentable. The most obvious insight is that we do not care as much about reaching lost people as we once did. That would be the observation that should cause Southern Baptists greatest concern. We will consider …
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Renunciation is Central to Christianity, But You’d Never Know It
I recently had an interesting back and forth with a guy I went to prep school with on "Renouncing Privilege." Evidently he and I have a different take on what that means, as evidenced by his comment: Many of the students were, and probably still are wealthy, still privileged. I would not try to make …
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My Response to “Renouncing Privilege” — Chet Aero Marine
https://www.youtube.com/embed/plNEgg5tFiY?version=3&rel=1&fs=1&autohide=2&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&wmode=transparent I’ve posted elsewhere on my prep school, and it was a pleasure to hear that someone else thought enough to do the same: Tico Vogt, two years my senior, has done so in his post Renouncing Privilege. There’s a lot of ground to cover here; I’ll try to be as succinct as possible. It …
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The Unevangelical Take on the Sermon on the Mount
From The Bossuet Project: The Unevangelical Take on the Sermon on the Mount
Remembering “Les Reflets”–French Christian Folk at its Best
Back in February I moved this album to YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpO5lnk-79U I have always been entranced by this work, as you can tell here. But tbh I never thought this would be one of the more popular albums I posted there. I was wrong, but not for the best reason: Daniel Fernandez, who was one of …
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The Call of God is More than an Emotional Rush
This interesting quote, from Daniel-Rops' Jesus in his Time: God does not seek to take men by surprise and the Church has always frowned on sudden vocations dictated solely by sentiment. It is only to the soul fortified by preparation and knowing its way and its strength that the spirit gives the supreme impulse. The …
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We Remove Blasphemy Laws, but Woe Betide if You Dare to Blaspheme Our Secular Sensitivities! — The Evangelical Seanchai
News has broken today that Israel Folau, the Australian full back, has been sacked by Rugby Australia. His offence was to post on Instagram that hell awaits “drunks, homosexuals, adulterers, liars, fornicators, thieves, atheists, idolators”. Let’s leave aside the fact that professional sport includes many more drunks, adulterers, liars, fornicators, thieves, atheists and idolators than […] …
Law Students Protest Their Way out of a Job
They many not realise it but that's what they're doing as in the case of Ronald Sullivan at Harvard: Harvard said on Saturday that a law professor who is representing Harvey Weinstein would not continue as faculty dean of an undergraduate house after his term ends on June 30, bowing to months of pressure from …
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Changing the Bankruptcy Laws and Social Unrest
Front and centre in political debates these days is student loan debt. It's led to much of the romance of socialism amongst the Millennials (never mind that a good portion of that debt was spent in state schools, socialist institutions par excellence.) One of the nasty things about student loan debt is that it is …
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