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Some Simple Counsel for a Joyous Christmas

Posted on December 19, 2024 by RC

It is, as the song goes, the most wonderful time of the year. I’m a deep aficionado of the advent season, but understand that it isn’t always sugarplums and flying reindeer. I wonder, however, if sometimes our less than ideal … Continue reading →

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The Boy Behind the Curtain or, Silence of the Clams

Posted on December 17, 2024 by RC

It’s a simple rule really, but a powerful one, one I have found quite helpful to my peace of mind, making the best use of my time and my mental energy. I follow this rule- anyone speaking ill of another … Continue reading →

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Giving Honor To Our Fundamentalist Betters

Posted on December 13, 2024 by RC

It is no new insight to note that in America the evangelical church is worldly and anemic. We are so earthly minded that we are no heavenly good. The anemia comes from the worldliness. But whence comes the worldliness? Like … Continue reading →

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Oh No!!!!!!!! Giving Mr. Bill His Due

Posted on December 12, 2024 by RC

I would never suggest that poverty is not real. I regularly suggest that it’s not quite as real, or rather quite as widespread as many seem to think. There is no question that the sundry follies of both parties over … Continue reading →

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The Worst Thing I’ve Ever Done; And You Did Too

Posted on December 10, 2024 by RC

My friend and co-author Paul Derry said it, and I’ll never forget it. We were talking about working together on a book, that book which became Call Me Barabbas. I was concerned my battered reputation might hurt his chances to … Continue reading →

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The God of Space and Time in Space and Time

Posted on December 6, 2024 by RC

We are all by nature Pelagians. Like the heretical monk Pelagius, we like to think we are basically good. Help in fighting this temptation is one of the great blessings that comes from embracing Reformed theology. Now we understand not … Continue reading →

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All Quiet On the Western Front

Posted on December 3, 2024 by RC

It probably says more about what defines our moments, the television, than the moments themselves, that we keep multiplying defining moments. For my parents’ generation, it was the death of John F. Kennedy. Everyone remembers where they first heard, or … Continue reading →

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Looking for Life in the Temple of Consumption

Posted on November 29, 2024 by RC

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, “Black Friday is proof that Thanksgiving didn’t stick.” I understand the importance of proper qualifications. One should not hear in that pithy phrase a condemnation either of getting a good deal, … Continue reading →

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Kenning Kin Cons, or, Lining Outside the Colors

Posted on November 26, 2024 by RC

There are two kinds of people in the world, those who divide the world into two kinds of people, and those who do not. I’m both. There is one kind of people, two kinds of people, three kinds of people … Continue reading →

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Feeling His Pleasure, or, Hands Across a Keyboard

Posted on November 21, 2024 by RC

Not long ago, in our study of First Thessalonians (see here) we came across Paul’s injunction that we aspire to a quiet life, and work with our own hands (4:11). We talked briefly about two errors we are prone to … Continue reading →

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