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Category: Creation

Confessions Reflections 4: The Lowest Rung of Creation

7 September, 2007 by Matt Robison

Book 1, Ch. 13, 21
Yes, I am still “reflecting” on the same section of The Confessions as the previous Reflection. Not my fault. Blame Augustine.
He continues to lament that he wept for the characters in fictional stories while not regarding his own depraved state.
For my own condition I shed no tears, though […]

The Christian Call to Creative Culture (Part 2)

5 September, 2007 by Matt Robison

In part 1 of the call to culture, I said that the depravity of our culture, particularly our modern entertainment industry, is solely the fault of the church.
We have retreated, pulled back our involvement, and then have the audacity to complain that everything is going to hell in a hand basket.
If Christians are not creating […]

The Christian Call to Creative Culture (Part 1)

4 September, 2007 by Matt Robison

What’s that, you say?
That Hollywood is depraved, hardly putting out anything wholesome anymore?
That our universities are becoming bastions of secularization, just another pile of much that a Christian has to crawl through and hope to come out clean?
That you have to cover your child’s eye even during the commercials on TV?
That popular music seems to […]

Adam and Eve and Weddings: A Refreshing Take

25 August, 2007 by Matt Robison

Douglas Wilson has posted a wedding sermon and exhortation that is probably dripping with more intelligent Bible commentary and insight than what leaks out of most pulpits in a month. He begins by introducing and quoting Matthew 19:4-8.
One time the Pharisees came to Jesus in order to test Him, and they made that attempt […]