Good Friday marks the day when Jesus was crucified. And that may be a puzzle and riddle after a fashion, but it has an answer. We call this day “good,”, in short, because God is good. More
Category Archives: Theology
Shaking Hands and Ki**ing Babies
Imagine yourself a contestant on Wheel of Fortune, where you and two others are solving word puzzles to win $10,000. I’ll play Pat Sajak, and read the clue for you as ‘Democrats.’More
But Seek the Welfare of the City
What if God himself were to tell us the answer to our present troubles was building a nice house, planting a pleasant garden, taking a pretty wife, and having lots of children with her?More
Be Not Overly Righteous
For years, Ecclesiastes 7:16 has puzzled me. I come back to it again and again. How can the wisest man who ever lived tell us to not be overly righteous or overly wise?More
Christian Liberty Defined and Contrasted
Christian liberty is the opposite of slavery to sin, which leads to death. Freedom is the freedom to obey God, including both knowing the truth and being set free by the truth. More
Book Review: ‘The Freedom of the Will’ by Jonathan Edwards
As Edwards explains, only God is sovereign. And therefore only God is free in the purest and fullest sense of what we could possibly mean by ‘freedom.’ More
Book Review: ‘The Magna Carta of Humanity’ by Os Guinness
Like Alexis de Tocqueville, Os Guinness is a figure I have heard quoted often in books and interviews for several years but never read directly myself – until now. More
These Men Who Have Turned The World Upside Down
With the appointment of “queer activist” Sam Brinton, it is right to question both the lipstick and the pig as well as those who are silently ignoring the oinking noise in the barnyard.More
Book Review: ‘How Should We Then Live’ by Francis A. Schaeffer
Here Schaeffer tells us the story of how our beliefs about God and ourselves have influenced the kind of art we enjoy, how we organize ourselves, and how we govern and are governed in turn.More
Canadian Freedom, Authority, and Submission
Here is my test for Christian laypeople and clergy who want only to talk of the Christian’s duty to submit to authority, yet are conspicuously, maybe even conveniently silent beyond that.More