The Grove of Ashtaroth
A common definition of hypocrisy is to understand it as saying one thing and failing to live up to that standard. While such personal inconsistency is not a good thing, the kind of hypocrisy that Scripture so fiercely denounces occupies another level. High hypocrisy, defined biblically, occurs when you accuse, condemn or assault others for …
Cheat Sheet #2
If you have not yet obtained your very own copy of The Bestiary of Adorable Fallacies, I have only one thing to say to you — and that is fie, fie! Actually, all right, that’s two things. But even if you rush to the computer right now and order it, you will be without the …
Moral Imagination and the Right to Life
The right to life is the basic human right. When it is denied, no other right will ever be recognized. When it is affirmed, and appropriately grounded, all other God-given rights will be recognized and defended in just the way they ought to be. In order to appropriately ground this right, however, we have to …
Hashtag Tactics
The outrage against Planned Parenthood is ongoing, and the third video released today. Thus far, the pro-life response has been vigorous, coherent and good, but unless we are careful, the outrage might begin to sprawl. Before I make some tactical suggestions to help keep it all focused, I suggest you watch the third video. Here …
A Rook for a Queen
One of the most interesting things about the Planned Parenthood scandal is that it has blown the Obergefell scandal off the front page. This might seem problematic to some, given the travesty that was Obergefell, but to my mind it is entirely to the strategic good. In the long game, I am always willing to …
Review: My Ántonia
My Ántonia by Willa Cather My rating: 4 of 5 stars I read this once before, a long time ago, and only remembered enough to remember that I had read it. But then I was given an audio version of it for my birthday last month, and have been listening to it in my truck. …
FAQs about Abortion
Planned Parenthood is in the midst of a self-inflicted public relations nightmare. Our job is to keep it that way. But in the rolling aftermath of this disaster of theirs, many pro-life Christians are probably finding themselves in the midst of more conversations on the topic than has been true for quite some time. This …
Keep Your Hands to Yourself
Sorry my theme doesn’t allow embed videos to appear on the front page here. But that is the way it is, alas, which means you have to click through if you want to see the video of the Logos Dads Band doing a cover of the famous counsel provided to young people everywhere by the …
Asahel’s Carcass
“Many preachers in our days are like Heraclitus, who was called the dark doctor. They affect sublime notions, obscure expressions, and uncouth phrases, making plain truths difficult, and easy truths hard. ‘They darken counsel with words without knowledge.’ Studied expressions and high notions in a sermon, are like Asahel’s carcass in the way, that did …