Month: October 2015

Two cheers for the Papists [Rev 5]

Posted on By Chris Gale
I sent a note to Mundabor that I'm raising my cup of morning coffee (needed it is) to the Papists. For they turned back the tide that would dilute the teaching on divorce. Now, this teaching is one the Reformed do not agree with. But want to. Calvin… Read More

The fifth column that would destroy us.

Posted on By Chris Gale
I spend a fair amount of time researching interventions about workplace violence. I know the epidemiology.[1] And I despise the Duluth Model. It is not science. It is not therapy. It is ideology. And unlike the Bass and Davis polemic of child… Read More

Not addiction, choice.

Posted on By Chris Gale
Hill Cone is a columnist in the local fishwrap, and one who has suffered a fair bit -- and like many post modern columnists, written about it, because the personal is political. And she uses Addiction. I dislike this term: I prefer habits. Her point remains: do your habits isolate you or connect you with… Read More

It is time to be one-minded [Mt 13]

Posted on By Chris Gale
This morning I am working backwards. From the Bible to Keoni, and from Keoni to Vox. It may be that we are failing because we have not one mind: the post modern culture has forgotten much. Including that without a vision the people will perish.… Read More

Account academic theology as dead.

Posted on By Chris Gale
You have to weep. Because the lost go looking, and the doors are shut. Stacey McCain is correct: the last place to find God is an academic theology department: it has reached the point where the Kiwi Presbyterians founded a school fo Ministry and got the senate to make Read More

Turn away from the Abyss [Zechariah 1]

Posted on By Chris Gale
J have some bad news for Entryists, Social Justice Petunias, and narcissists in general. It is not about you. It is about covenant and promises. The words of God do not fall lightly. Life is not fair, if you think fairness is getting the same… Read More

Clear the ruins. Rebuild the Kirk [Haggai 1]

Posted on By Chris Gale
Today's sermon was not based on this, but on Blind Bartimeus receiving his sight, and seeing things as Christ, and dealing with those things we would unsee. I talked to the Pro Photographer: we decided not to school Barry on PTSD (have treated too… Read More