Introduction: Taken at face value, the phrase black lives matter is a phrase that no sensible person could differ with. Of course they do. Also taken at face value, the rejoinder all lives matter is equally true. Of course they do. The reason for the back and forth, then, has nothing to do with the …
Atheism and Meaningless Black Lives
Introduction: A lot of cyber ink has been spilled when it comes to responses and critiques of the Black Lives Matter movement. But it has to be said that many of these critiques, however good, ...
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Black Lies Matter
Introduction: Would you rather I had said that all lies matter? I will explain the hypocrisy shortly, but in the meantime, as a matter of fact, I have done such a thing before. But nobody listened ...
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How BLM Is Becoming “Black Lynch Mobs”
Two recent shootings of black men, one in Tulsa and one in Charlotte, have set off another round of racial turmoil, not to mention another round of Orwellian news and news analysis. So let us begin with some basic definitions. Protesters are those who assemble peaceably to register their views on something, or their insistence …
Wailing for Tammuz at Wheaton
Introduction: You only need to watch the first fifteen minutes or so of the embedded video below in order to see that all is not well at Wheaton. Everything about this dialog between Wesley ...
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Letters Fall From Above Like Lizards From Trees in a Florida Cold Snap
Letter to the Editor: TIN SOLDIERS AND TRUDEAU'S COMING " The body they may kill , God's truth abideth still." In a few hours, the Lord willing, we will gather in large numbers to ...
Tin Soldiers and Trudeau’s Coming
Introduction: I don’t care who you are, having an elderly woman trampled by your cops on horseback is a bad look. Another bad look comes when it is not possible to confirm or refute reports of that poor woman’s death. As I was composing this paragraph on Saturday, there were rumors that she had died …
Kevin DeYoung and the Taxonomy of Conflict
Introduction: As we contemplate the melee that is the Reformed evangelical world today, it is very easy for the folks in the stands to get a little bewildered. As the saying goes, you can’t tell the players without a scorecard, and the different numbers on the jerseys really helps. And if ever there were a …
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Mo Letters
Letter to the Editor: This may be a “stickier” dilemma than what your friends and family are involved in, in Soviet Idaho. Looks like sticker persecution is becoming a trend. Katie ...
The High Price of Forgetting God
Introduction: To get right to the point, the high price of forgetting God is that God forgets you. And when that happens the descent into madness becomes tractor beam inexorable. And because we Americans ...
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