The text of a talk delivered at the CCL East Coast Symposium on November 23, 2013 in Shepherdstown, West Virginia Perhaps you've seen the movie titled Wag the Dog, starring Dustin Hoffman and Robert DeNiro and Willie Nelson. It's about a president who invents a crisis in the Balkans in order to divert attention from [...]
Month: November 2013
Subordinationist Patriarchy and Twisted Trinitarianism
I’ll respond briefly to my old friend Bill Einwechter’s rejoinder to my article “The ‘Patriarchy’ Problem.” I have long thought that Bill is the most theologically astute, consistently practicing, and personally winsome of the patriarchalists, and they are wise to enlist him to champion their cause. This present post responding to him presupposes that the [...]
Marriage From the Beginning
Introduction Like many of you, I was blessed to have been influenced by devout Christians in my youth. One of them was John Ashbrook. He was pastor of one of the Christian day schools I attended in the 70s. He finally went to be with the Lord a couple of years ago. He once said, [...]
Intellect as Culture
Below are introductory remarks made at CCL's 2013 West Coast Symposium in downtown San Francisco last weekend: We need first to know what culture is. We do that best by distinguishing nature (or creation) from culture. John M. Frame captures this distinction: “Creation is what God makes; culture is what we make.” Culture is quite [...]
