“The devil is God’s fool,” Luther once quipped. It is a fascinating thought. The idea, one that on […]
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…the devil builds a chapel, or so goes the saying of Luther (Table Talk LXVII). In other words, […]
I did not have high hopes for The Seventh Day (2021; Redbox, or for rent on streaming services), […]
The devil wants to be your preacher. He wants to get into the pulpit on Sunday morning and […]
In Georges Bernanos’ 1926 novel Under the Sun of Satan (Sous le soleil de Satan), Mr Malorthy is described as knowing “very little about that superior form of cheek which the clever call cynicism.” Today cynicism seems like just about the only stance left for anyone to take. There is very little room, it seems, for the sincere and the unironic.
It’s not that my wife never says anything profound. She does all the time. She’s smart and wise, and I can usually seek good advice from her. On Sunday morning she said something that hit me right between the eyes. Something so profound, I knew I needed to write about it and even preach about it someday.