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Not In Our Town

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Apologetics in the Void" are repostings from an on-going electronic discussion and debate I had some time ago with members of our local community, whose names I have changed. The list serve is called Vision 20/20, and hence the name "visionaries." Reading just these posts … [Read more...]

Lady Huntington

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Whenever Lt. William Morris was angry, he would simply swallow and grow a little colder. An intense and disciplined man, he was not given to outbursts, but the anger was still there, each incident taking it a little deeper. Hungry for glory, he had surpassed heroism in several … [Read more...]

Frivolous Questions

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Dear visionaries, Nick has presented me with a whole host of "articles for repudiation." But before answering Nick's questions, allow me to invite you all (again) to the town hall meeting we are having at the Kenworthy. We would love to see you there. We will genuinely attempt … [Read more...]

Uppity Calvinist Women

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Visionaries, In his great book Orthodoxy, Chesterton once said, "This began to be alarming. It looked not so much as if Christianity was bad enough to include any vices, but rather as if any stick was good enough to beat Christianity with." The aptness of this observation is … [Read more...]

Pro Fanum

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Visionaries, In his recent post, Darryl targets my assumption of the infallibility of the God's Word, and offers his alternative. But this simply highlights yet another example of an "inescapable concept." The best way to summarize this concept is with the phrase, "not whether, … [Read more...]

Avoiding Checkmate

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Visionaries, Darryl wrote to ask about my responsibility in helping to give Moscow a black eye in the PR department. What was my intent in all of this? First, Darryl is exactly right in anticipating how I would respond. We did not print and distribute the anonymous flyers, we … [Read more...]

A Chilling Effect

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Visionaries, Angie says, "It sure is chilly out there." Actually, it really is chilly. There are people "out there" who use "racism" as the all-purpose category to describe anything they don't like or disagree with. Then they have trouble making distinctions between worldviews … [Read more...]