Earthy or Worldly?
“We affirm a fundamental creational loyalty to the world and constantly thwart the world’s desire to become disloyal to itself. This is why it is good to be earthy and bad to be worldly. Worldliness is just a clever way of deserting the world. This is the explanation of why worldliness is so consistently weary …
Just the Facts, Ma’am
Bojidar Marinov has a little fun with me here, wishing that I would become more of a plagiarist than he pretends to believe I already am. He wishes that in my Dirty Cops post I had plagiarized from an article he wrote about the Brown and Garner cases. However, after thinking about it deeply, and …
Ordinary Loyalty
“Modern man, progressive man, has an insatiable lust to interfere with the ordinary things. He strives to become superman and only succeeds in erasing ordinary men” (Writers to Read, p. 24).
Dirty Cops
Everyone knows that dirty cops exist. We all know that somewhere, somehow, some cops are on the take, some are morally incompetent, some are on a power trip, some disable their body-cams before taking care of business, and so on. Anyone who believes that dirty cops can’t exist is someone who is unaware of the …
Cracking Down on Crackers
Over the years, as I have written on culture and race, I have had to write on two fronts. In order to engage with the MSNBC-approved narrative, I need to engage with the Black Lives Matter kind of evil, which is all the thing these days. It is evil and popular with the cool kids. …
On Not Blowing Sunshine
Introduction: A few weeks ago, Thabiti contributed to our ongoing discussion of the presidential election and race relations with this post. I responded briefly here, and promised to say more about it later on. It is now later on, and so here I am. Productive Discussions: Thabiti said that he and I manage to have …
Review: Eutaxia, Or, the Presbyterian Liturgies : Historical Sketches
Eutaxia, Or, the Presbyterian Liturgies : Historical Sketches by Baird My rating: 4 of 5 stars A helpful compendium of historical Reformed liturgies, and their genealogical connections. The author Baird, given the nature of his subject, is not exactly a barrel of laughs, but he does have a little bit of fun with the high …
Review: The Works Of Thomas Reid: Volume 1
The Works Of Thomas Reid: Volume 1 by Thomas Reid My rating: 4 of 5 stars Really informative. Reid was the road not taken, and subsequent centuries paid a heavy price for it. The founder of the sturdy Scottish Common Sense philosophy, Reid attempted to transplant plain sense into the vagaries of philosophy. Unfortunately, the …
Standing Fast
If I might, I would like to begin with a set of bundled quotations. The first is from The Pilgrim’s Progress, the second from John Buchan’s trilogy of books, The 39 Steps, Mr. Standfast, and Greenmantle, and the third from a few places in Scripture. Please bear with me for just a moment. First, John …