“A sermon exists in and for its purpose. That purpose is the persuading and moving of men’s souls . . . It is always aimed at men”
Phillips Brooks, The Joy of Preaching, p. 92
A Most Reasonable Qualification
“What is the meaning of liberty? In order to make any progress at all when it comes to understanding the use of marijuana, we have to know what freedom is. We also have to discuss it, and work through it carefully, with very sober minds. That means we should debate the question of pot without having smoked any”
Devoured by Cannabis, pp. 39-40
A Sickly Yellow Custard That is a Little Green Around the Edges
An Introduction to Vaccine Passport Defiance: The other night I went and looked up some video footage of the massive demonstrations that are currently happening in Europe, against the introduction of vaccine passports—the protests I watched were happening in London, Paris, and Athens, but there were plenty of others. And the fact that events of …
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201: When the Establishment Loses Conservatives
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Preaching and Reading
“Ordinarily, reading sermons is like listening to an echo. The words there, but the personal intonation is gone out of them and there is an unreality about it all . . . In general it is true that the sermon which is good to preach is poor to read and the sermon which is good to read is poor to preach.”
Phillips Brooks, The Joy of Preaching, p. 91
Competing Aesthetic Systems
“One wine might be selected because it would go well with the beef, and another chosen because it complemented the pasta. Marijuana goes with (recalling Cheech and Chong) Oreos and mustard”
Devoured by Cannabis, p 31
Lotsa Lotsa Letters
Letter to the Editor: Given that we're "Budgeting for Stupidity" and taking as tacit reality that incompetence likely outweighs malevolence—at least in the manifested reality of bureaucracy, ...
Pride Kills
“Never allow yourself to feel equal to your work”
Phillips Brooks, The Joy of Preaching, p. 88
Jesus No Moonshiner
“If the use of wine was sinful and problematic , then it would have been really problematic for Jesus to have made 160 gallons of it”
Devoured by Cannabis, p. 26
Budgeting for Stupidity
Introduction: As it is quite obvious to the intelligent observer that our ruling elites are busily engaged in wrecking the country, the theories about why this is the case break into two schools of ...
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