“It is permissible to flee persecution, what Calvin once called getting the heck out of Dodge” (Rules, p. 35).
If You Wish, You May Count the Lumps on My Head
“In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them” (De Tocqueville, Democracy in America, p. 264)
No Time for Commies
“Some of us don’t want to give the commies the time of day — they slaughtered over 100 million people over the course of the last century, and, looking ahead to the next century, they would be happy to do it all over again. Some of us don’t think we should be the ones with …
Preaching & Teaching With Imagination
Title: Preaching and Teaching with Imagination Author: Warren W. Wiersbe Genre: Religion Publisher: Baker Books Release Date: February 1, 1997 Pages: 400 No more dreary three-point sermon outlines! Wiersbe coaches preachers to creatively proclaim the living Word--so hearers experience God's truth changing their lives. This was a good book, with a lot of good points, …
The Walking Stick Problem
If you say, as Bacon once did, that knowledge is power, you will find yourself arraigned pretty quickly on charges of wanting to rape the earth. But knowledge is power, and knowledge cannot be applied in this world without exercising authoritative dominion. This axiom needs to be defended and it needs to be defended without …
A Chiastic Catechism on Biblical Sexuality
NB: This is a little something written for a forthcoming book from Canon called How to Exasperate Your Wife. Here are 25 questions, along with some suggested answers. 1. What is the first challenge of biblical masculinity? To have enough of it to be willing to articulate what it is in public. 2. Is not …
A New Entry in What Russell Kirk Called the Permanent Things
The Biggest Donut Hole of All
Radical Muslims are quite energetic in their blasphemies. They want their blasphemies to come across as blasphemies. Like a toddler in the middle of an epic meltdown, they know what they want and they know how to get it. Secularists are quite tepid in their blasphemies. I mean, cartoons? But immediately I must correct myself. …
Hard Green
Title: Hard Green Author: Peter Huber Genre: Nature Publisher: Basic Books Release Date: 1999 Pages: 224 A strongly-argued critique of environmentalism from the right - the conservative's answer to Al Gore's Earth in the Balance. Peter Huber demonstrates that the green movement is mostly brown. The greatest threat to the environment would be your standard …
A Battle of Blasphemies
The news about the radical Muslim assault on a French satirical magazine is still unfolding, and so it would be wise to withhold comments on the details until we actually have sufficient details. But quite apart from the particulars of this assault, there is one thing that we can say with some certainty. This is …