Comes now some scholars with backbone, in order to point out that the Obergefail decision is a Hefty bag filled up tight with balloon juice. This is quite right, and so they go on to make practical applications, which include encouraging all concerned to consider the decision as having no application beyond the named plaintiffs …
Conflict Makes the Story
Every Saturday night at our Sabbath dinner, we have a round of catechism questions for the kids. The last question, the one I ask all of them together, is “Kids, what’s the point of the whole Bible?” The answer is “Kill the dragon, get the girl!” This was the point of the biblical story before …
A Different Kind of Deplorable Word
There are a number of ways in which all the important subjects in the world are actually all about the same thing — God and man, sin and salvation. That being the case, there should be a number of ways in which the subjects that have occupied a good deal of space on this blog …
Review: The Return of the King
The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien My rating: 5 of 5 stars Not sure how many times I have enjoyed this trilogy, starting when I was in high school. Just finished it yet again. Just magnificent. I am thinking through a companion book to What I Learned in Narnia — What I Learned …
Chumming the Water
The purpose of a judicial process is not, in the first place, to side with the victim. The point of judicial process is to determine, carefully and without jumping to conclusions, who the victim is. Once the truth is established by due process, the Bible everywhere and always sides with the victim. But we live …
Review: The Riot and the Dance: Foundational Biology
The Riot and the Dance: Foundational Biology by Gordon Wilson My rating: 5 of 5 stars I don’t usually read biology textbooks (as in, never), but I read this one because my brother Gordon wrote it. Unlike other textbooks, the kind written by a committee of soulless engineers trying to write a phone book, the …
Exiled Nigerian Princes
Of course the homo-jihadis believe in reparative therapy. They have been doing it to America for years, and it works very well. America used to be straight, and now it is . . . very bent. In a recent display of their reparative therapy techniques, protesters have shown up to a conference on counseling held …
Just Between Us Girls
Introduction Comes now Rachel Miller, she of the quantitative analysis fame, and attempts a drive-by post at The Aquila Report. She wants to know what people like about me. This is, it must be admitted, a difficult question to answer, and so we must give it our full attention. Let us put our thinking caps …
An Olive Branch for Rod Dreher
Scripture has something to say about the unnecessary perpetuation of strife. “Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: So where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth” (Prov. 26:20). So there are two ways to deal with falsehoods that are burning off hundreds of acres. The text says you have to deal with …
This Ramshackle Heart
In the recent spate of controversies, one of the things I have mentioned trying to do, and which has caused some consternation and disbelief in some quarters, is that which Jesus says to do when we are slandered. He says to rejoice and be exceeding glad (Matt. 5:12). His followers, the Lord says, should receive …