Houston, We Have a Problem
So then, the city of Houston, a true renegade in Texas politics, has started acting like a city in California, the kind of city in CA that has Buddhist wind chimes hanging from the front of city hall. Of course, to say the “front” of city hall is privileging the front over the back, and …
Jitney Messiahs
As the same-sex mirage juggernaut continues to roll through our pathetic little festival, crushing both devotees and opponents alike, a number of conservative Christians have begun to prepare themselves for life in a post-Christian America. Not only so, but they have been encouraging others to do the same. But this is radically unhelpful and unbecoming …
Keeping Track of the Options
University-Trained Mole Rats
Scripture teaches us that the creation is articulate. “The heavens declare his righteousness, And all the people see his glory. Confounded be all they that serve graven images, That boast themselves of idols: Worship him, all ye gods” (Ps. 97:6–7). The created order pours forth speech. Nature is not a dumb mute, vaguely gesturing in …
C.S. Lewis & Mere Christianity
Title: C. S. Lewis & Mere Christianity Author: Paul McCusker Genre: Biography & Autobiography Publisher: Tyndale House Pub Release Date: May 30, 2014 Pages: 228 Tells the story of the dramatic events and personal sacrifice that went into the creation of Mere Christianity. I liked this one, filing it under biography. But it is actually …
Psmith in the City
Title: Psmith in the City Author: P. G. Wodehouse Genre: Fiction Release Date: 2003 Pages: 201 Psmith in the Cityfinds the inimitable Psmith working at a bank and determined not to let honest toil depress him. Standard Wodehouse fare, and very good. This was different, however, in that it contained no Wodehouse female of any …
To Join the Orgy Porgy
A couple of stories came to my attention today. One was the decision of California to require a verbal yes at every stage of sexual activity on their college campuses. And if that doesn’t work, they will toughen the law, requiring a “yes, oh yes!” at every stage of the proceedings. Certain tropes are like …
Smash the Complementarity
Before smashing the patriarchy becomes mandatory, may we take a few moments to ask what it is? The current push is to get reasonable Christians to back away from it because they reject what is done in the name of it by the outliers. But however carefully reasonable Christians distance or distinguish themselves from the …
The Pickwick Papers
Title: The Pickwick Papers Author: Charles Dickens, Mark Wormald, Genre: Fiction Publisher: Penguin Release Date: 1837 Pages: 800 Four bumbling members of a nineteenth-century London social club, known as the legendary Pickwick Club, journey to places outside the city and become involved in romantic foibles, danger, and a few legal scrapes. Okay, so I have …