Introduction: We are certainly living in interesting times, as the old Chinese curse puts it. On a related point, the great lexicographer Samuel Johnson once said that there was one good thing about being hanged in a fortnight—he said it concentrated the mind wonderfully. Over the last few years, a number of events have caught …
Just Curious
Content Cluster Muster [09-21-23]
Keepin’ Cool: A Trippy Little AI Pentecost: And if you want to do this to your own self, check it out here. Open Road: And more here. A Song I Really Like for Some Reason: Funny How That Goes: HT: Samuel Cherubin: Iosif Buianovskii And Another Podcast Also: And here is the audio version, if …
FV Haiku
“Big books full of words,
Blogs earnestly publishing
Their crinkum crankum.”
A Florilegium of Prudential Observations, Gathered from My Own Head, Concerning the Propriety of Theocratic Blasphemy Laws
Introduction: Over the last week or so a discussion broke out over my contention in Mere Christendom that while blasphemy laws are inescapable, and that while Christians should be laboring to see ...
A Solemn Duty
“As the pressure to expand our ecumenical cooking increases, there needs to be an assistant to the prophet (me), looking over the rim of the kettle in which we are cooking our ecumenical stew, whose job it is to cry out, ‘There is death in the pot!’”
Letters Bring Out the Best in Us
Letter to the Editor: Do Trump's recent comments jive with smash mouth incrementalism? If so, how so? AW -- Doug responds: AW, it depends on what you mean. If you are ...
A Robust Cossack
“I am not being attacked because I deny sola gratia and sola fide. I affirm them, and with about the same amount of enthusiasm as a Cossack dancing.”
Sexual Shenanigans in High Places
Introduction: So this last week saw a number of tawdry details about politicians’ lives come tumbling out into public view. No, no, I don’t mean anyone from Epstein’s client list. No, friends, let’s be realistic. What are you, crazy? A Quick Run Down: There was the Democrat lady, Susanna Gibson, running for state rep in …
Likemindedness at the Pinch Point
Philippians (14): Sermon Video Introduction: Everybody thinks that likemindedness is a wonderful thing, and everyone approves of it in the abstract. Behold how pleasant it is when brethren ...