Wheaton College is now accepting 90% of their applicants, only 30% of those accepted matriculate, and men are down to 44% of the student body. And of course, everyone’s a psych major.
So why am I bothering writing abt Wheaton? You tell me.
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The Indiana Court of Appeals today unanimously affirmed the legal challenge to state’s abortion ban. Challenge was brought by Hoosier Jews for Choice/four anonymous womyn. Indiana ACLU Legal Director Ken Falk issued a statement to the press: “For many Hoosiers, the ability to obtain an abortion is necessary based on a sincerely held religious belief. The burden placed on these individuals by Indiana’s abortion ban is absolute and life-altering.”
Next our IN Court of Appeals will unanimously affirm a challenge to laws banning religious rituals of human sacrifice. This is these womyn’s religion and our rule of law. #nounionwithabortionists
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Seeing those stats just reminded me of something I was thinking of when I was reading Lucy Austen’s bio of Elisabeth Elliot recently. I had never thought before of the impact on the climate of, in this case, Wheaton, to have such low numbers of men enrolled when she began her studies because so many were away at war. It just seems to make sense of some of the climate of the evangelicalism there at the time that it was so predominately female and that the men that remained would have had some reason they couldn’t or wouldn’t fight.
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Read this carefully. Wheaton’s admin/Trustees say “binary” while turning the campus over to LGBTQ. It’s pathetic. Complete absence of Godly authority. No care for the souls of their students—only pro forma policies as window dressing. #Wheatongone
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The apostolic tenderness and affection permeating New Testament only comes about through faithful exercise of authority. Sheep knew their shepherds were suffering and dying for them, so they loved them. Learn to recognize this in a church; and its counterfeit. #lovingauthority
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First and Second Corinthians; stick and carrot.
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Some highlights of Laurie Krieg’s chapel talk about shame:
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In the past, when she sinned sexually with another woman, she would read 1 Corinthians 6:18-20 as a rebuke, with a posture of fear of divine judgment. She mocks this by adding the word “idiot” into the passage. (2:30) She doesn’t reflect that how the conscience naturally receives a passage of scripture is often a good indication of how the Holy Spirit intended it to be used.
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Healthy living as Christians is “to confidently bring all of us, secret sins and all, to God.” (4:30)
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There are three types of shame. With the help of psychologists, she’s going to divide shame, which is one category in the Bible, into three. The end goal is to condemn biblical shame.
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“Toxic shame” is a feeling of condemnation or worthlessness in the face of God’s Law. Adam and Eve hid and clothed themselves because of “toxic shame.” We can feel toxic shame before, during and after we commit sexual sin: “Am I really doing this right now? This is terrible. I’m terrible.”
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“Guilt or conviction” is a “pinprick” compared to the “whole body feeling of worthlessness” of toxic shame. It’s a sign that we need to repent.
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“Godly shame” is “a feeling of weightiness about the effect of sin that makes us not want to repeat it.” It says, “What I did was not worth it,” rather than, “Who I am is worthless.” [n.b.: After reviewing the video again, this last sentence is what she says about conviction, not godly shame.]
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Laurie’s conclusion: “God wants me to honor Him with my body, not because He’s a sin-hater, but because He loves me.”
The talk received a standing ovation.
It’s also obvious that she’s preaching. Roman Catholics worship statues and call it “veneration.” Evangelical women preach and call it “a chapel talk.” Same specious verbal dichotomy. But rather than the natural authority of a man, the authority that she’s drawing on for her preaching is the authority of emotional experience. She pulls her audience along by the heartstrings. There’s a young man in the top right corner who emotes along with her throughout the talk, crying and nodding and so forth at all the right cues.
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Dear Joshua,
Please download this movie so we can host it, then it would be good to have a transcription of the whole thing, if someone can? Invaluable.
Love,
Just emailed you about the video. I can draw up a transcript within a few days.
Brave of her to stand up for sex being restricted to “sexually different people.”
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The problem, of course, isn’t Mrs. Krieg as much as her husband and those trustees/admin/faculty members using her as their mouthpiece while holding membership at local orthodoxy churches. She’s almost not culpable, but simply evidence of the culpability of all those in authority over her. But leaders aren’t exposed and opposed today. Love,
(HT JTB) Turns out CPI isn’t close to objective: “The cost of money is not currently included in traditional price indexes, indicating a disconnect between the measures favored by economists and the effective costs borne by consumers.” https://www.nber.org/papers/w32163
Son Joseph just posted my father Joe Bayly’s parable, “Black Gold.” Reminded me of a friend’s podcast shilling for gold investments last week. So thankful for Dad as my father Black Gold - Warhorn Media
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In US, 800,000 disabled or die each year b/c of errors in diagnosis. DocGPT is here and your medical care will be significantly better for it Are You Ready for AI to Be a Better Doctor Than You?
Every time ur present for discussions of sodomy/lesbianism in church, school, mission, conference, retreat, small grp, almost always what ur listening to is soul-destroying. Think not? Substitute bestiality and keep listening. Does changing the sin make ur skin crawl? Leave. Now.
Since I was a teenager, on weekends, Chicago Blacks have been murdering each other by the scores.
The moral of the story?
Cut the hypocrisy. Black lives don’t matter.
Sacramentalists can’t help themselves. Moscow is decreeing paedocommunion to be a confessional issue. Calvin condemned it. The Council of Trent condemned it. All the Reformed churches have condemned it.
Moscow doesn’t care. They know better. Always. #moscowMud
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Actually, it’s a relief Moscow is showing their hand. What’s been kept behind the curtain is now revealed.
God’s shepherds now have to make their choice.
The right administration of the sacraments has always been a “mark of the true church.” So decide.
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Need help deciding?
https://baylyblog.com/search?search_api_views_fulltext=paedocommunion
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Update on the NZ baptist situation:
The Principal of Carey Baptist College kindly sent Christa McKirland’s chapter to me so I could see that she does not affirm trangender body modification. (Saved me the over $60 it would cost to buy the whole book on Kindle!) According to him, Christa was talking about intersex people who consider body modification to deal with their specific issues.
Well, if that’s what Christa meant that’s not what she wrote. The sentence that discusses body modification is at the end of a long paragraph about transgender people.
When I mentioned that I would be warning people, he replied pretty quickly saying he’d talked to Christa and “Christa is not making a case for transgenderism. That is not her intention. To suggest to anyone that Christa means otherwise would be wrong.”
The problem is, as I said to him, that even if that was not her intention, the theological argument of the whole chapter opens the way for transgenderism without any impediments (and with some encouragement).
Whether Christa is deliberately deceptive or merely deeply deceived, her chapter is pretty common fare for liberals pushing the envelope. Provide all the arguments for a theologically liberal conclusion and then demur from drawing that conclusion. More conservative people, like the Principal of Carey College, then defend them because they didn’t actually state the conclusion that everyone else drew.
Interestingly, Colin Smothers drew the conclusion that Christa McKirland is saying she did not intend in his review back in June last year.
So, I’ve asked for final confirmation about what they say Christa is saying, but I’m unsure whether I’ll get a response. My warning will now be more nuanced, but I think it still needs to be given.
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