The current conflict between Israel and the United States is a really odd one. For the Israelis, the whole thing is a matter of life and death, a serious conflict. On the Obama/Kerry side of things, their behavior more closely resembles a one-sided junior high girls’ slap fight. But before getting into all that, a …
Feather the Frosting On With a Canoe Paddle
You secularists are fond of using coercion to make evangelicals bake you a cake, right? That’s kind of your thing, isn’t it? Well, let me volunteer to make you one. I am calling it the cake of confusion, and it is a pretty large one. We shall have to feather the frosting on with a …
Devilish Arts
Given the continued attention the world and its lusts are paying to the subject of robosex and virtual sex, and the almost entire lack of preparedness on the part of the Church, I thought I should repost this piece from a couple years ago. C.S. Lewis was not just a winsome and engaging writer, a …
Jesus Is Not Our Ethanol
The Germans frequently have just the word for it. Taking joy in the misfortunate of another is schadenfreude. That feeling of embarrassment you get on behalf of another who ought to be embarrassed himself but somehow isn’t is fremdschämen. I bring this up because we either need to coin or find another word for another …
Race to the Punch Line
We are currently engaged in a culture-wide race to the conclusion of a reductio ad absurdum. Think of it this way. Back in the Bill Clinton era, there were always stories of the “trail of bodies.” If you gave any credence to them at all, you were a nut, a conspiracy theorist, a true head …
The ERLC Downstream From the Trump Victory
I have been wondering for a few months now if there was going to be some kind of Southern Baptist backlash against Russell Moore, and it looks like it may now be happening. For example, The Wall Street Journal has a story on it here, and NPR here. And in the aftermath of the election, …
Founders with the Fantods
So yesterday the Electoral College met and formally elected Donald Trump as our next president. The Left had been applying significant pressure to get electors to flip, and to vote for candidates other than what the popular vote of their state had determined for them. The end result was that two Trump electors were faithless, …
What Shouldn’t Oughter
This is already a very cheerful time of the year, but the Lord apparently thought I needed to be cheered up even a little bit more, and so He very kindly arranged to have the Democrats start yelling at us over the startling news that the Russians hacked our sacred electoral processes. Now I do …
Review: The Great Good Thing: A Secular Jew Comes to Faith in Christ
The Great Good Thing: A Secular Jew Comes to Faith in Christ by Andrew Klavan My rating: 5 of 5 stars Hope to write more about this soon, but for now, let us just say it is superb. View all my reviews
Review: Black Rednecks & White Liberals
Black Rednecks & White Liberals by Thomas Sowell My rating: 5 of 5 stars Dense. Thorough. Balanced. Eye-opening. Magnificent. View all my reviews