Let’s Pop the Hood, Shall We?
Noise Abatement Long Term
“If the father uses the rod judiciously, his son will not die—sound effects notwithstanding.”
Keep Your Kids, p. 2
Book of the Month/May 2025
It is not enough for us to be against woke, or DEI, or social justice, or whatever new term our lizard overlords have decided to foist upon us. We must be hostile to all such verbal iterations, of course, but we must fight, as Chesterton put it, not simply because we hate what is in …
Content Cluster Muster [05-01-25]
Heads Up . . .: Looks Exciting: A Song I Really Like for Some Reason: There Have Been Many False Starts . . .: HT: Samuel Cherubin: Ken Knight Featured Product: Sounds FV:The Federal. Vision controversy was one that extended over quite a number of years, and during that time I wrote quite a bit …
Descend to Hilarity
“Few earthly blessings compare to sitting around a dinner table with your grown kids and their spouses, all of them Christian. Someone starts telling spanking stories, and the evening descends into hilarity. In the next room, the grandkids are going at it as well. All this, coupled with wine, and laughter, and psalm singing, and jokes, and sausage stew, and a fire in the fireplace . . . The covenant is a wonderful thing.”
Keep Your Kids, pp. xi-xii
Anxiety Storms and the Empathy Wars
Introduction: The empathy wars seem to have some staying power. It was around seven years ago that Joe Rigney set the whole thing off within Reformed circles when he sat down with me for an interview ...
No Nuance at All
“All of this means you have to settle in your mind, in your soul, down in your bones, what you actually believe. And you have to be ready to walk into a buzz saw if you’re really going to practice some of the things that the Bible says we ought to practice. Your stance should be that of the sailor at Pearl Harbor who, when the third wave of Japanese Zeros was flying overhead, thought to himself, ‘The time for nuance has passed.’”
Keep Your Kids, p. xi
April Letters May
Letter to the Editor: You said:"In times like ours, when deliberate efforts are underway to erode or otherwise destroy our national and civic identity, it is not unlawful for Christians ...
The Choices of James Lindsay
Introduction: In a recent post, I mentioned the atheism of James Lindsay, and was subsequently informed by a reader that Lindsay had recently rejected his former atheism, and now considers himself ...
Struck by an Angel
Acts of the Apostles (27): Sermon Video Introduction: In this chapter, we should notice a few introductions, and a notable contrast. We are introduced to John Mark, the author of the second ...