“When you pass something like the Patriot Act, with much fanfare, in order to enable patriots to spy on the bad guys, what winds up happening is that the act is used to enable bad guys to spy on patriots.”
You Know, Letters. It’s Tuesday.
Letter to the Editor: I was very excited to hear your interview with Ross Douthat. He is one of my favorite writers. It was a very good exchange. I would say that the way Ross asked questions ...
Judicious Threat Assessment
“The biggest blasphemy culprits in human history have consistently been these so-called lords of the earth—and not the mental patient who got off his meds and is saying erratic things in aisle 7 at Safeway. The state has always been the principal blasphemy threat, in other words.”
Why Candace Should Stop Connecting Dots
Introduction: In today’s installment, I do not wish to address any particular conspiracy theory. Rather I want to talk about the conspiratorial mindset. This is a mindset that results in a particular method of reasoning, and it is a method that is prevalent enough these days for us to start making some noise about it. …
A Ministry in Retrospect
Acts of the Apostles (45): Sermon Video Introduction: The great apostle had invested much of himself in the course of his ministry at Ephesus. It was one of his most successful ventures, and ...
Bad Sinners Too
“So I don’t believe in free speech because I think that everybody has something valuable to say. No, I believe that all men and women are bad sinners, and it shows up in their speech. The trouble is that as soon as you start talking about regulating their free speech, because it is bad, all the possible enforcers and regulators are rock hewn from that same quarry. Censors are sinners too.”
Making Marriage Last | Doug Wilson
Good News and Bad News
For His Time Is Short
“Some people think that in the transition from the old covenant to the new, blasphemy went from outlawed to somehow acceptable. It actually went from outlawed to doomed.”
Mere Christendom, 169
Content Cluster [10-09-25]
And Then Some . . .: Open Road into Autumn: A Song I Really Like for Some Reason: Happens to the Best of Us: HT: Samuel Cherubin: Yushkevich Victor Nikolaevich And Another Podcast Also: Featured Product: The Blenheim Talks:Almost ten years ago, I gave a series of three lectures at a conference in the UK. …