As I mentioned the other day, we are now actively archiving old Credenda essays one at a time. The latest new old Husbandry article is up.
Some Robust Hotel Coffee
It is not often that I get to agree with a 4-point Calvinist about limited atonement, so when I do, I ought to seize the opportunity. Right? First, check out this statement here. I believe Alcorn is absolutely right that the plain teaching of Scripture trumps our logical mastications. I also believe he is right …
Time Well Spent
“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) The Basket Case Chronicles #3 “Who shall also confirm you unto the end, that ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our …
Psalm 121
This was one of my earliest forays into working with psalms. {audio}Psalm121.mp3{/audio}
Call It An Unexpected Plug
Leigh Bortins, a good friend of Canon Press materials, is the head of Classical Conversations, and has a new book out entitled The Core: Teaching Your Child the Foundations of a Classical Education. And so it was with great interest that I saw Stanley Fish discussing her book at length in The New York Times. …
Get to and Got to
Conservative Christians have standards, and we are going to stick to them, by golly. And that is actually a good thing, so long as we are sticking to them. The problem arises when they start sticking to us, as when cheat grass gets in your socks. The problem I have in mind affects all sorts …
Only a Republican Would Oppose Molech Worship
This will be a relatively short post, even though it deals with James Davison Hunter’s chapter on the Christian Right. This is because the chapter is simply a broad overview of the Christian Right’s take on what has happened to America, and what they want to do about it. For the most part, I found …
If It Comes in a Bottle . . .
When pressed with the bad behavior of atheist regimes, one of the oddest (and funniest) answers that the new atheists offer is that Stalin (say) erred by having his regime take on religious attributes. Peter Hitchens puts it this way: “And so the escape clauses come thick and fast. If atheism in practice appears at …
Wind Shepherds
Eric Hoffer described the trajectory this way. First you have a movement, which turns into a business, which then is transformed into a racket. This truth, and truth it is, should be constantly remembered by all those who are involved on the recovery of classical Christian education. We can do this in two ways. First, …
Look at All Those Alabaster Cities
In his most recent book, R. Emmett Tyrrell points out that the American conservative movement that grew up after the Second World War was a fusionist movement — a coalition of small government libertarians, anti-Communists, and traditionalists. As it happened, I was (and am) all three of those, and so I fit right in. But …