I have recently been listening through a collection of essays by C.S. Lewis, and have been having a wonderful time. I don’t have a long commute, three or four minutes is more like it, but it is amazing how much steak you can eat when you cut it up like that. I just recently finished …
No Shantytown Kingdom
The entire world of unbelief lies under the sway of the wicked one. Given how the god of unbelief operates — which is through accusation — it should not be surprising what kind of energy makes the system go. That energy lies in the strength of accusation. The devil is an accuser, accusing the saints …
No Cow in Moscow
How does one pronounce the name of our lovely little town? We have grown accustomed to telling people that there is “no cow in Moscow.” It is moss koh, not mos cowww. But there may be additional significance beyond the absence of that special bovine je ne sais quoi in our name. Or, if not …
Review: If I Were You
If I Were You by P.G. Wodehouse My rating: 4 of 5 stars Always fun, but this was funner than most. View all my reviews
Book of the Month/November 2015
I regularly get books sent to me in the mail, and lots of them look good to me. That means that I am glad I now own them, and look forward to the time when I might read them. But occasionally a book is sent to me that I just have to read right away. …
Why Do It Then?
The other evening our elders had a special meeting with our parishioners to go over some of the details of the recent controversies. The meeting was fantastic, but my point is not to get into all that. Rather I wanted to simply to respond more fully to one of the questions, one that went something …
Wipe It From Your Minds
The Cosmos Containing the Orchard
When it come to moral reasoning, the premises must encompass and contain the entire moral world. We are creatures, which means that our starting point must be bounded and finite, with a consistent set of moral assumptions embedded. “The ultimate ethical injunctions have always been premises, never conclusions. Kant was perfectly right on that point …
The Day Marriage Fell (Ichabod)
And so here is a music video that is accompanying our documentary, The Free Speech Apocalypse. Many thanks to Darren Doane, who shot this, along with David Shannon and other members of his team. And thanks to our Jenny Geddes assemblage this time around — Dara Heiple, Tom Miller, Jay Niemeyer, Tom Isenberg, and Clint …
Feminism in Denial
A few days ago, I tweeted this: “We have really gotten messed up by our servant-leaders, b/c we think we are to lead by serving instead of serving by leading.” Some consternation ensued, with some people liking this fine, sending it on down the twitter-road, with others thinking that it explained everything about me that …