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Legal or Moral?

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Dear visionaries, In response to Randall, I fully understand that the current legal situation makes a distinction between speech and restaurant management. I want to know why. How come? By what standard? What is so magical about speech? Why is the First Amendment first … [Read more...]

Foundations of Marriage V

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INTRODUCTION: In this season of Advent, we are preparing ourselves for a celebration of the Incarntion of the eternal Logos, in which the eternally begotten Son of God became the son of Mary, and, through her, a genuine son of Adam. We are also considering the impact of this … [Read more...]

Feminist Misogyny

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I just recently finished reading Taking Sex Differences Seriously by Steven Rhoads. Certain irritating features of the book have to be discounted, like his ongoing evolutionary assumptions, but in the main the book is a dispassionate and careful look at what everybody in the … [Read more...]

Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda

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One of the exercises I have employed over the years in the study of history is the practice of trying to "take sides." But this requires explanation because there is a sense in which such a practice is incoherent. All of us are shaped by our culture and upbringing in such a … [Read more...]

Paleo Spear-Dane

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In a recent letter to the editor of a far away newspaper, Nick Gier wrote, "Wilson claims that he is not a neo-Confederate, but . . ." Since we are dealing with refried charges, let me serve up a helping of refried answers to charges. Here is what I said about the charge of … [Read more...]

A Satiric Voice

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One of the most frequent questions I have to answer about our ministry here concerns what has come to be called the "serrated edge." It is such a common question that I wrote a (short) book addressing the question, and explained why a satiric voice in certain settings is not only … [Read more...]

Flew the Coop

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Just read on a news site that the famous atheist Anthony Flew has become a deist of sorts. He has not come to the Christian faith, or anything like that, but has abandoned a lifetime of naturalism because in his mind the evidence for intelligent design is compelling. While … [Read more...]