“There is no shortage of sin to denounce, and yet the only sin that the Christian church is willing to denounce is the sin of denouncing any of it.”
In Honor of Ben Sasse
Introduction: So this is a post that requires a little bit of background. Not too much, but some. If you bear with me, I should be making good sense by the end. The grand theme is this. In Augustine's ...
Coming of Age and Life Between the Sexes #3
Introduction: We live in egalitarian times, and consequently I have selected a text which makes many moderate complementarians flinch, and which makes patriarchal types, of the eighth-grade-boy school ...
Missing the Jab
[Concerning Matt. 6:2] “We often miss the earthy peasant humor of Christ (that He could use to devastating effect) because we read our Bibles through seven or eight layers of high gloss sanctimony. But Jesus was not afraid to make fun of what might be called tarantara tithers.”
Book of the Month/May 2026
Nancy recently read Living Life Backward by David Gibson, and thought it was good enough for us to go through together. And so we starting chipping away at it, listening to it chapter by chapter ...
As In, Write What You Know
Or Panel Discussions Either
“John the Baptist did not come out of the wilderness issuing invitations to seminars.”
Content Cluster [04-30-26]
Exit With Aplomb: Worth a Look: the best 3 minutes of video I've watched this year pic.twitter.com/1Li3jCT0rg— Lester (@Chen) April 28, 2026 Now That’s an Autumn Road: A Song I Really Like for Some Reason: One Cartoonist Who Understood the Natural Heart of Man: HT: Samuel Cherubin: Torsten Wolber Featured Product: Chestertonian Calvinism:For a number …
Would Rather Not Decide
“If some profoundly needs to continue on with his conviction that we are the end product of so many millennia of blind evolution, and you obligate him to acknowledge a Creator God, the only two alternatives are anger or repentance. He does not want to stand at a that crossroads, and so he lashes out at the person who brought him there.”
Hate Farm Subsidies from the SPLC
Introduction: Comes now news that the SPLC has stepped on a rake. One of the earlier sensations that came to one was that of relief, as one reflected on the fact that schadenfreude is not expressly ...