Monthly Archives: April 2009

The End of Christian America

By D. G. Hart | Published: April 30, 2009

Jon Meacham wrote a less provocative piece than its title for the magazine he edits on “The End of Christian America.”  Reactions have been mixed even if it is hard to argue either with the data that prompted the article or Meacham’s Augustinian conclusion: The columnist Cal Thomas was an early figure in the Moral… Read More→

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Trotter is Funny, Trueman Isn’t

By D. G. Hart | Published: April 25, 2009

If the Reformation 21 Blog were a blog, this conversation could go on over there. But seeing how its authors have chosen only to mix it up among themselves, reactions to their posts turn into posts on other blogs. So Carl Trueman makes a good point about the inconsistency of evangelicals in the Church of Scotland… Read More→

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Just Grow Up

By D. G. Hart | Published: April 23, 2009

(From NTJ, January 1999) A recent visit to Yale, complete with watching a Yale-Princeton hockey game, reminded us of the suffocating ubiquity of post-1950s popular culture. Being some twenty years removed from college life it was curious to see Yale undergraduates participating in the rah-rah spirit that college students of our generation studiously avoided in… Read More→

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Lent is Like Spring Training

By D. G. Hart | Published: April 22, 2009

With friends of the church calendar like this, who needs Presbyterian critics? Craig Higgins, a PCA pastor in Westchester, NY, wrote over at PCA Conversations (how did we miss this?) a couple of posts about the value of observing Lent. In the first, he gave two main reasons. The second was that Lent is part… Read More→

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If the Bible Speaks to All of Life, Why Not the Confession?

By D. G. Hart | Published: April 18, 2009

I do not do Facebook, though I might sign up for MyFace. I am happily uninterested in Twitter, which as T. David Gordon has suggested, is what twits do. So using a blog to tell others about what I’m doing seems silly if not narcisistic. With those qualifications out of the way, a recent speaking… Read More→

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The Great Debate: Psalms vs. Hymns III

By D. G. Hart | Published: April 17, 2009

(From NTJ Jan 1997 and April 1997) From: Glenn Morangie To: T. Glen Livet Date: 9/3/96 3:21pm Subject: Psalmody -Reply -Reply Glen, Are you a ninny or what? How can you say that Reformed worship is not centered on the Word and then in the next sentence write, “God speaks to us and we speak… Read More→

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2K Food Fight?

By D. G. Hart | Published: April 14, 2009

Over at Heidelblog, Scott Clark takes some exception to the proposal at Old Life for a Bureau of Weaker Siblings. Among the points he makes, these are the most interesting: Hart mentions a natural law approach to resisting fornication (that the act of fornication is contrary to the creational intent of sex for procreation). This… Read More→

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Booalism

By D. G. Hart | Published: April 13, 2009

Why is the idea of dualism so threatening to many contemporary Reformed Christians? To talk about two kingdoms or to introduce the idea of differences between sacred and common jurisdictions is apparently a concession to secularism and a denial of Christ’s Lordship over every square inch of created order. But in point of fact, a… Read More→

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Why Should Lutherans Have All the Good Poetry?

By D. G. Hart | Published: April 12, 2009

“Seven Stanzas at Easter” (a meditation on 1 Corinthians 15) John Updike Make no mistake: if He rose at all it was as His body; if the cells’ dissolution did not reverse, the molecules reknit, the amino acids rekindle, the Church will fall. It was not as the flowers, each soft Spring recurrent; it was… Read More→

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Bureau of Weaker Siblings

By D. G. Hart | Published: April 10, 2009

Imagine the following scenario (not apparently one conceived by John Lennon): a hotel owner refuses to let out a room to couples whom he knows may engage in fornication, adultery or sodomy. The owner decides upon this policy out of his own Christian convictions. But the owner conducts his business in a civil polity that… Read More→

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