A Nail In His Place

How the preacher responded to pop culture’s version of transcendence.
Josh Moody | posted 7/24/2007 09:20AM

[WARNING: SOME PLOT SPOILERS.]

So there we have it. The most engrossing imaginative world created at the start of the 21st century is essentially pagan. Don’t get me wrong—I like the Harry Potter series. I’ve read all of the books. And I’m sure Jonathan Edwards would have done so, too.
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Edwards was acutely aware of the cultural movements of his time. He said in “Some Thoughts Concerning the Revival” that he made it his practice to take light from wherever it came. Of course, reading John Locke and the like is not quite like reading books designed (originally) for children.

It’s hard to imagine that Edwards would….

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I know… I keep harping on Edwards, but he’s right here in my backyard…

John Edwards Vows To End All Bad Things By 2011
The Onion
July 16, 2007 | Issue 43-29

AMES, IA—In an effort to jump-start a presidential campaign that still has not broken into the top Democratic tier, former Sen. John Edwards made his most ambitious policy announcement yet at a campaign event in Iowa Monday: a promise to eliminate all unpleasant, disagreeable, or otherwise bad things from all aspects of American life by the end of his second year in office.

“Many bad things are not just bad—they’re terrible,” said a beaming Edwards, whose…

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July 17, 2007
The Haircut Narrative, Part Two
Powerlineblog.com

The Washington Post takes a whack at explaining why, despite his ardent efforts on behalf of poor Americans, John Edwards seems to be making so little headway in his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. Like some left-wing bloggers, the Post’s primary explanation is the adverse publicity Edwards received about his 28,000 square-foot house and his $400 haircuts.

But it’s not as if these fairly recent developments…

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Attacking “God” has become a lucrative book business. But there’s not much substance behind the latest atheist tracts.
By Peter Berkowitz
Monday, July 16, 2007 12:01 a.m. EDT

“There is nothing new under the sun,” proclaims the Book of Ecclesiastes. The rise of the new new atheism confirms this ancient biblical wisdom. Of course the famous words of Ecclesiastes should not be taken in a slavishly literal sense, a technique that is all-too-common among those who think they can refute belief in God by showing that the Bible abounds in demonstrably false and self-contradictory statements.

But one stunning new development under the sun is that promulgating atheism has become a lucrative business…

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The New York Times Surrenders
by Victor Davis Hanson
A monument to defeatism on the editorial page
12 July 2007

On July 8, the New York Times ran an historic editorial entitled “The Road Home,” demanding an immediate American withdrawal from Iraq. It is rare that an editorial gets almost everything wrong, but “The Road Home” pulls it off. Consider, point by point, its confused—and immoral—defeatism.

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