Essay

• Either/Or & Yes/And

  One very modern exchange goes something like this. Someone asserts two things…

• Esperanto man

  In the late 19th century, the ophthalmologist L. L. Zamenhof set out to create a language.

• The power of neutrality

  Those who claim to be above politics are ruthless enforcers of politics.

• A third-way response to the third-way

  For at least half a century, Western intellectuals have explicitly espoused various…

Excerpt

• The division of persons

  “To bring about similarity among people in the world, to apportion to…

• Don’t lie to yourself

  “Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself…

• Dreamers of day are dangerous men

  “All men dream; but not equally. Those who dream by night in…

• Enemy-occupied territory

  “Enemy-occupied territory—that is what this world is. Christianity is the story of…

• On the pattern of this world

  Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.

• Reading & learned reading

  “If you happen to be a scholar, then please do see to…

• The Spirit helpeth our infirmities

  “The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the…

• Workers of the world unite?

  From “The Power of the Powerless” by Vaclav Havel, written in October…

Note

• Ephesians, 1:1-6

  “Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, To…

• Ephesians, 1:7-23

  We are redeemed by the work of Christ by God’s grace, according…

• Ephesians, 4:17-32

  “Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer…

• “Theological liberals, why are you persecuting me?”

  A gospel where justification proceeds neither by faith nor by works, but by vitriol.