Crumbs from the Master's Table

There was a day when the impassibility of God was impassible. That is, it was assumed as something we simply knew about God's being. But...

"The theologian, far from having a faith based on wish fulfillment, is rather employed (at least part-time) in the role of dragon-slaye...

"He is a slave to a sign who uses or worships a significant thing without knowing what it signifies" (St. Augustine, On Interpret...

Commenting on Mark 12:30, Edwards says (italics mine for emphasis): Here is contained in these words a description of a right love to God; ...

Chesterton back in 1926, speaking with real insight into real states of affairs: For the next great heresy is going to be simply an attack...

"'I was born gay!' 'Gender is a social construct!' Hmmmm . . . which is it?" —Doug Wilson, Our Transgressive Dai...

"Where the love of God is absent, there an idolatrous love of the world and of self enters, and a positively offensive and hostile atti...

"There is absolutely nothing that God can give us that we are incapable of turning into an idol." —Douglas Wilson, Against the C...

Rosner: What constitutes a god? Martin Luther's answer, as he reflected on the first commandment in his larger catechism, was "wh...

Christopher Wright comments on Gen. 3:22: God accepts that humans have indeed breached the Creator-creature distinction. No that humans ha...

Iain Provan: The fundamental idolatry described by the Bible lies also at the heart of the varied modern idolatries: the idolatry of the s...

For those who watched the live steam of The Future of Protestantism  (which was edifying, but not nearly as insightful as I had hoped), and...

Non-charismatics have their faith healers too, you know. That is, "conservative" Evangelicalism looks to faith doctors as well for...

David Powlison: How are we—and those we counsel—simultaneously socially conditioned, self-deceived, and responsible for our behavior witho...

Writing to his friend Owen Barfield, C. S. Lewis remarked: Talking of beasts and birds, have you ever noticed this contrast: that when you...

Render to Caesar what is his, but no more. A good reminder  for this 4th of July, the year of our Lord 2013. We ought to love our country, b...

The OT equivalent of the NT "handing over" in Rom. 1:24, 26, 28 appears in texts such as Ps. 81:11-12: "But my people did not...

"God, society, family, individuals, sex, property. It is an order of values that western culture has more or less completely reversed....

"Obedience ought not to be complicated , either by the competing claims of other gods (the moral maze of polytheism), or by the confusi...

Ross Douthat: Indeed, this is perhaps the greatest Christian paradox of all—that the world's most paradoxical religion has cultivated ...