Jesus tells us that when we are struck on one cheek, we are to turn the other. The apostle Paul teaches us to punch back twice as hard. Furthermore, there is no contradiction. . . . Given the corruption of the times, it is not surprising that some churches are being attacked. The marvel is why more are not being attacked. Another marvel is why more churches are not responding the way the Scriptures instruct.
Douglas Wilson
Tagged “corruption”
@DianeLangberg, PhD
No system, no matter how godly its goal sounds, that carries within it oppression, silencing, de-humanizing, violence, abuse and corruption is healthy.
— Diane Langberg, PhD (@DianeLangberg) November 17, 2017
The CREC Presiding Ministers’ Report: The Guessing Game Is Over
“Refusal to teach boys to honor girls and women will certainly result in grief, but grief too late.” —Douglas Wilson
Presiding Ministers’ Report III: Moving the Goalposts
“grievous malfeasance” & “corruption”
The Presiding Ministers of the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches inadvertently demonstrated exactly what the words “grievous malfeasance” and “corruption” mean. They embodied it. Continue reading
The Bragging Fool of Moscow
“Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.” —Proverbs 26:12 Continue reading
2016 in Review
A brief review of 2016’s major events in the Kirk. Continue reading
DougWils, Inc.
D.W.I.
A grifter’s empire. Continue reading
“Clinton levels of corruption”
If you can justify Clinton levels of corruption, you can accomplish quite a bit. At least for a while.
Douglas Wilson
“George Orwell, call your office.”
If you want to read an indictment of American academia, as if you needed one, then I recommend Plagiarism and the Culture War. In it, Theodore Pappas documents the wholesale plagiarism committed by Martin Luther King, Jr. in his doctoral work, not to mention the varied and wondrous contortions of the academic establishment as they sought to studiously ignore this indisputable fact. Of course, this particular instance is not the sum and substance of modern academic corruption, but it does provide a wonderful example of how it all works. If you are in any doubt about how advanced our public corruption is, just write a letter to your local paper on how MLK was a plagiarist, and see what happens. Suddenly, mirabile dictu, people like you who believe that a man should be judged by the content of his character and not by the color of his skin will be branded . . . racists. George Orwell, call your office.
Douglas Wilson
On the Common Denominator
A Visual Exercise
Classical Christian Plagiarism. Continue reading
On Hubris II
Nothing new under the sun. Continue reading
Truth & Exhortation
Christ Church, Moscow, does not support child abuse. Christ Church commits child abuse. Continue reading
“The apostle Paul teaches us to punch back twice as hard.”
Jesus tells us that when we are struck on one cheek, we are to turn the other. The apostle Paul teaches us to punch back twice as hard. Furthermore, there is no contradiction. If there is apparent contradiction, we are not to try to resolve it through ignoring half of the evidence.
‘And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just’ (Rom. 3:8).
‘Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil: the Lord reward him according to his works’ (2 Tim. 4:14).
‘For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ’ (2 Cor. 11:13).
Given the corruption of the times, it is not surprising that some churches are being attacked. The marvel is why more are not being attacked. Another marvel is why more churches are not responding the way the Scriptures instruct.
Douglas Wilson