This is what you get when you allow women preachers. Or, rather, this is what you don’t get. Or something.
The Poetic Case Against Postmodernism
Human language is a gift of God. When God created Adam, He gave him many gifts. He gave the Garden, and all that it contained. He gave him the woman, bone of his bone, and flesh of his flesh. And God also gave Adam the gift of speech, which enabled him to talk about all …
A Fourth Decade of Psalms/Psalm 39
Introduction: This psalm, along with many other passages, teaches us how to understand the transience of our lives. “So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom” (Ps. 90:12). Some men ignore this truth. Some see it and despair. Others, blessed of God, see it and learn wisdom. The …
When the Seers Are Blind
“In a series of cases beginning in 1957, the Court judged that obscenity and the representation of sexuality were not the same thing and that ‘material dealing with sex in a manner that advocates ideas . . . or has literary or scientific or artistic value or any other forms of social importance may not …
Hidden In Plain Sight
“We have only to look at the numerous everyday displays of envy and jealousy to realize that even adults never attribute their mutual antagonisms to that simple phenomenon” (Girard, Violence and the Sacred, p. 176).
Find Out Who She Is And Marry Her
I am currently reading, and very much enjoying, Debbie Maken’s book, Getting Serious About Getting Married. My wife read it and reviewed it for Credenda a few months back. This is one of those “about time” books. My father, who has been counseling young people about affairs of the heart for half a century or …
What Huxley Called “The Feelies”
“[T]he court delineated between the transmission of culture and the provision of entertainment, and relegate movies to the fulfillment of the latter. This is most ironic, because the film that led to this case, Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation, had demonstrated the power and potential of film as an intellectual and artistic medium. Now, …
Tweedledum and Tweedledee Contend for the Throne
“From within the system, only differences are perceived; from without, the antagonists all seem alike. From inside, sameness is not visible; from outside, differences cannot be seen” (Girard, Violence and the Sacred, p.159).
Can’t Work the System
“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) Growing Dominion, Part 98 “How much better is it to get wisdom than gold! And to get understanding rather to be chosen than silver” (Prov. 16:16). This is another interesting comparison in Proverbs. If you have to choose, choose this over that. If …
Gotta Be Authentic
“With the emergence of high and low cultural categories around the turn of the century, distinctions were created between ‘commercial’ art, or entertainment, and nineteenth century ‘high’ art, that which was considered creative and authentic” (William Romanowski, Pop Culture Wars, p. 76).