October 2016

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What Wheaton College learned from Stan Jones's mistakes...

During the advent season last year, a tenured African American professor at Wheaton College named Larycia Hawkins wore a scarf on her head as her own personal declaration of solidarity with Muslims. Dr. Hawkins explained her actions on FB: "I stand in religious solidarity with Muslims because they, like me, a Christian, are people of the book. And as Pope Francis stated last week, we worship the same God."

Quickly, Provost Stan Jones met with Prof. Hawkins and she was put on administrative leave. Dr. Jones had served as provost since 1996, but his discipline of Prof. Hawkins's public heresy brought so much hostility from faculty members and students down on his head that he later announced he would resign as provost and return to teaching. After a couple months, Wheaton hired a woman as his replacement...

Teddy Roosevelt on motherhood...

In the past few years, several longtime friends—one a nephew on the Taylor side of the family, another a stay-at-home mother and member of Clearnote Indy, and the third a politician running for a congressional seat outside Philly—have each recommended Teddy Roosevelt as good for what ails America. Here's a speech President Roosevelt gave in Washington D.C. to the National Congress of Mothers a century ago.

Times have changed. If you need an incentive to read on:

If you mothers through weakness bring up your sons to be selfish and to think only of themselves, you will be responsible for much sadness among the women who are to be their wives in the future...

No piled-up wealth, no splendor of material growth, no brilliance of artistic development, will permanently avail any people unless its home life is healthy, unless the average man possesses honesty, courage, common sense, and decency, unless he works hard and is willing at need to fight hard...

The speech...

Second thoughts...

In a comment on another post, Scott Tibbs linked to the Constitution Party's "Castle 2016" page promoting Darrell Castle for president. I went over and here's what Castle says about abortion:

If you believe those tiny people living in their mother’s wombs are “persons” and therefore deserving of life, choose me.

If not, any of the other candidates will do.

And...

The election...

Sorry, but I thought better and have decided to pull this piece. I've left the comments.

How I'll vote...

For many years I've been saying Hillary would be our first woman president, but I won't go quietly into that dark night.

​Over at Mere Comments, Steve Hutchens says everything I'm thinking about my vote this election cycle. I hope you'll take the time to read him. Under Steve's post, a woman makes the simple comment, "He is horrible, but she is Evil."

Precisely.

Trump and Clinton: which form of sexual degradation do you hate most...

You remember how Wayne Grudem recently endorsed Donald Trump, saying he'd been teaching "ethics for 39 years" and Donald Trump was a "morally good choice" for president of these United States.

Now Grudem deleted that endorsement and has called for Trump to withdraw from the race. He apologizes for not looking more carefully at Trump's pattern of sexual debauchery before calling him a "morally good choice." Grudem issues a good apology. He's specific and the apology doesn't end with the word "but."

After apologizing, though, Grudem goes on to make the same case for voting for Trump he made in his earlier post. The only thing missing is his former personal endorsement of Trump the man. So what about Trump the man and Clinton the woman?

No one remembers that Ronald Reagan...

Thoughts under the cross...

You're holding a sign that says "Pray for an end to abortion" and standing on the curb facing all the drivers waiting for the stoplight at one of the main intersections of your city. In the building behind you babies are being ripped apart and flushed down the disposal by Planned Parenthood. Up the sidewalk a little way are Roman Catholics praying to Mary. Also one solitary shy woman standing in the parking lot trying to talk to mothers intent on murdering their unborn child as they walk over to the abortuary.

Time passes and you notice things...

Glenn Beck wants us to save the Republican Party...

Glenn Beck is opposing Donald Trump. As he puts it:

If the consequence of standing against Trump and for principles is indeed the election of Hillary Clinton, so be it. At least it is a moral, ethical choice.

Beck calls on Trump to step down from the nomination. He says this would "guarantee that the Republican party still stands for something [and] still has a future."

What these guys don't get is that...

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Socrates and Ischomachus on the beauty of womanhood...

Older women ...encourage the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, to be sensible, pure, workers at home, kind, being subject to their own husbands, so that the word of God will not be dishonored. (Titus 2:3-5)

A brother in Christ passed this text on to me. It's from Project Gutenberg so it's public domain (meaning copyright-free).

There are many of us who come to the end of the dialogue and are able to say "that's my dear wife!"

Will you be able to say as much when you're my age?

In our wicked culture with the church seemingly determined to hide her light, being blessed with a wife who loves doing the home work and loves her husband doing the away-from-home work is a miracle. But this miracle begins with a lover of a husband who sees the good of this and argues and fights for it, maybe with his wife, but certainly with his friends, neighbors, and relatives—starting with his in-laws. In these fights, it is a great help to have...

Two men are in this presidential race...

Unlike a slew of Evangelicals, I have never been a supporter of Donald Trump. The man repulses me and has for years (see 2006, 2010, 2015, 2015, 2016 and 2016). No man who's ever worked with his hands for a living or spent a moment in the locker room of a public high school or frat house is surprised by the male degradation on display in The Donald's bragging.

Meanwhile, two men are running for the White House. And make no mistake—Donald Trump and Bill Clinton are perfectly suited to one another.

You want a man in the White House who objectifies women and lives the life of an alleycat? Take your pick and your choice doesn't matter... 

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UK's Christian(ity) Today: blasphemy does not bother God...

Leaving religious freedom to the side, it is profoundly disturbing that the UK's Evangelical voice Christian Today published this servile tripe:

There's something profoundly disturbing about the idea that God should require the services of an executioner to protect His honour. When Christians stand up against blasphemy laws, we aren't denying God's glory, we are affirming it: we're saying he is untouchable by human ignorance, scorn or abuse.

The writer of these two sentences is in the thrall of human ignorance. Has he never read the Bible? Shall we start with the Flood? With Sodom and Gomorrah? Maybe he's a New Testament-only man and we need to start with Herod and move on to the Corinthians God killed because...

Stone Gate Ministries: pastoral care for sinners...

Harry Schaumburg and Brian Bunn invited a group of pastors and elders up to Port Washington, Wisconsin, this past week. Harry is the author of two classic books written to help Christians on the road of repentance for sexual sin. The books titled False Intimacy and Undefiled are an extension of the one-week Biblical intensive counselling program Harry provides...

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