While many people, including his own students, may be unaware, Talbot was an ardent defender of the Lost Cause, including its worst aspects, going so far as to affirm the Dred Scott decision and the KKK, and to preach racist propaganda from The Birth of a Nation, smearing black people, from the pulpit in several ways.
I am told repeatedly that “the textbooks never told you” all the allegedly hard truths about the Civil War, slavery, and racism. There’s just one big problem with this thesis. . . .
As Christians, we do not start with advocacy for a congressional bill and then go mining in scripture for prooftexts.
In the same way, knowledgeable, influential, and capable women in certain Christian circles are treated like a threat to insecure men. Like a rageful Call of Duty gamer ready to throw his controller across the room, many comparatively low-intelligence, less influential, and less capable men throw temper tantrums on Twitter because certain women are making them look bad.
I encourage all young men and women to liberate yourself from any would-be thought leader, gluttoned on their delusions of grandeur and sense of self-importance at the center of some imagined reformation, who would hold you back from investigating the full truth of such matters as racism, the Lost Cause myth, women's rights, equality, a career, and any other disapproved education in which you may be interested. Rebel against their self-professed authority on such matters. Tell them to take a hike, you'll follow what you want to read beyond your primary studies.
The one who says, “Come let us make bricks” is NOT the one who is actually making the bricks. The one who holds the whip is the one giving the commands. The one at the other end of the whip is making the bricks.
Sometimes evil men will fight for righteous causes.
In an ever-increasingly polarizing and tribalistic society, it's more important than ever to understand this. More than that, it's vital that we stand with God first rather than any tribe, movement, cause, church, or so on.
Christians, let me be very clear. Dobbs expressly codifies the idea that the life of the preborn is not a fundamental right. This decision negates federal protection of abortion but also blocks federal protection of the preborn.
In the plainest terms possible, the abolitionist position calls on Christians to act in accordance with what we say. Instead of saying one thing and supporting another thing, we call on believers to support what they say they support.
What is kinism? How do we define it? Kinism is not a formal organization, it is a relatively new term, and its ideas are comparatively imprecise compared to other more ancient heresies.
But what we do know from scripture is that there were a group of women who were serving in an orderly and organized fashion in the worship of the tabernacle and that they were called the “women warriors”.
John MacArthur was my father's favorite preacher. My dad, a retired Baptist preacher, used to order his sermon tapes, and I remember listening to MacArthur in the car with him. It was usually either MacArthur or the Eagles.
All other factors being equal, why is it that we often choose to advocate for the rich and powerful against the weak and vulnerable? I often hear that we can't assume that David is a rapist, but why is it considered normal to assume that Bathsheba was an adulterous harlot? Brothers and sisters, all other factors aren't equal in this story.
May Gary rest in peace and may we all hail, alongside Gary, Jesus as Savior and King.
IGTBAM offers a choice between patriarchy and impotence. But that is a false dichotomy. What does our world, characterized by moral relativism and gender fluidity need? I would suggest less focus on men developing gravitas through what the authors imagine is masculine dominion.
Not only does Jesus ask this young man to give up all of his money; He asks him to consider himself and all his position, standing, reputation, power, education, and breeding as dung.
When we look to ourselves instead of Christ, when we lean on our works, when we believe that what we do is what sustains us, this is a denial of the one and only Gospel that saves. No matter what cultural war rages around us.
What is “The Joy of the Lord?”
Rather than being a command to Israel, it is a motive for OUR joy. In Christ, God’s anger is taken away. He rejoices over us. He even sings over us. He delights in us.
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Dr. Hobbs’s stinging memoir pulls back the curtain on the type of culture that has been the breeding ground for the worst of American Christian fascistic views for decades now. She lived through it—right literally through the middle of it. She’s an eyewitness who needs to be heard.