The Craw

The Stupidity of Racializationism

"Racializationism." My new word. Stand-by because I'm going to get controversial and blindingly obvious.

The picture at left is of Bob Barr, Libertarian politician and "caucasian" and on the right, Jeremiah Wright, minister of black liberation and Mr. Obama's former pastor. I'm having a hard time seeing any huge differences between the two and I've got plenty of folks in my family and bloodline that are about 5 shades deeper in skin tone (and they speak another language).

This whole racial identity thing is stupid and its time to move on.

Life Goes On...

With huge events swirling about the world...some even larger events were taking place at the Craw Ranch.

History always repeats

Our near total ignorance of economics and economic history is leading us down a well-worn path.

Amazing Historical Tidbit

Dakin estimates that about two of the three million inhabitants of America at the time of the Revolutionary war were of Calvinistic stock.

Henry Van Til, The Calvinistic Concept of Culture, 1959, p. 98.

The Election

We are about to elect a president who advocates Marxist policies. In California a ballot needs to be voted on to clarify that marriage is between one man and one woman. Our academies (including many divinity schools) laugh at those who believe in a God who sent his only son into the world to take on flesh, to die and to rise from the dead on the third day. So what has the church been doing?

Fighting with itself.

Fighting over whether one can drink beer or smoke tobacco. Fighting over singing old timey hymns or having a rockin’ band. Fighting about miniscule sub-doctrines inferred from confessional documents. Man, we love punching ourselves in the face.

We have been foolishly and tragically disengaged from our own culture. We have no prophetic voice to speak with since we have yelled ourselves hoarse at one another.

Calvin on Tap

Well, we're back to Tapping it again. We're currently reading Bruce Hegeman's "Plowing in Hope" as a men's group.

CREC Denominational Council

I'm currently spending my last night in Houston, TX. This week was the CREC Church Council. There were some 200 delegates from CREC churches from across the globe. Our nearly 100 churches were split into 7 new presbyteries. God has been good to us. It was a wonderful time of worship and work and I was pleasantly surprised at the humble spirit of outward-looking world transformation that was expressed among us. We also had a great time of fellowshipping with one another.

Christ Church elder Andrew Richardson with pastors Rich Lusk and Joe Thacker.

 

A new page in the history of the history the CREC was written today as the new presbytery of the Southwest, Calvin Presbytery, met for the first time. We have 8 churches which hail from California, Nevada, Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Russia. I was elected as one of prebytery's delegates to the next denominational council.

An ad to think about

Though I'm not a Roman Catholic, I thought this ad was thoughtful and well done.