A policeman doesn’t need a warrant, and shouldn’t need a warrant, to look at your house. But there is more to it. I have noted before that many contemporary Americans are demanding privacy when what they really want is anonymity. But these are not the same thing at all. If I am walking down a …
Logos Online School
Now follow me carefully here, because I think there may be at least a couple of things here that you didn’t expect, because online education is the sole province of homeschoolers, right? Quite right, and not exactly. This is my first installment in what I hope becomes a regular feature — let’s call it Education …
Hygiene Lectures From Typhoid Mary
A bill now before the Idaho legislature raises a thorny question. The choice facing our legislators is this. If they vote yes, and they remove the religious exemption shield, then they will be seen as encroaching on the religious freedom of parents to care for their children according to their conscience. But if they vote …
American Shame
We have passed yet another grim mile-marker since the Roe v. Wade decision. This is a road of cultural degradation and shame, and we have been traveling it over forty years now. That is how long Israel spent in the wilderness, and — just as with them — God is not pleased with us. We …
History as Crowd Control
I just finished reading Herbert Butterfield’s small book The Whig Interpretation of History. I had heard or seen it referred to from time to time, and so thought I needed to get with the program. Butterfield is a superb writer, and has a very solid grasp of his subject, and the whole book was an …
The Way It Looks on the Screen
So I am a presuppositionalist. That’s true enough, but what do I need to presuppose? This will require more development, but what needs to be presupposed is the way things actually are. You don’t need to know all the precise details of how things actually are — you don’t begin at the end — but …
C.S. Lewis and Moose Tracks Ice Cream
Over the last few weeks, we have been discussing natural law — the good, the bad, and the ugly. Jim Jordan kicked things off by attacking The Calvinist International at the Auburn Avenue conference, and I wrote a few posts on the subject, including an outline of my own debt to C.S. Lewis, and my …
The Pigeon Forge Chapter
Okay, so the creation/evolution debate has many entries in the Annals of the Wheeze Worthy, but this is a particularly strong entry. A gent named Dan Arel has posted on why Bill Nye, the Science Guy, should not debate Ken Ham. You can read all about that here. If you choose to do so, you …
Apologetics and the Heart
This article was originally published in Antithesis (July/August 1990). I still agree with all of this, but I must say that reading stuff of mine that is over twenty years old gives me the feeling that I used to compose my prose with flattened cardboard boxes and tin snips. Just so you know. In preparing …
Pastors in Pale Pastel
I have noticed, on the Internet and elsewhere, that when a pastor says something angular, the kind of thing that provokes questions and/or consternation, a very common stock response emerges. That response is that such behavior is “not very pastoral.” Such a response initially seems to be thoughtful and wise, concerned for unity and love, …