The Sword of Abram just arrived in the warehouse yesterday, and are just sitting there, ready for shipping. The illustrations are fantastic, and though the thing is too big for a stocking, it is not too big to set the stocking on. Here is Chedorlaomer, disgruntled about something that happens in the story. To find …
He Came as Clear Speech
“The Word did not come into the world in order to be degraded and unrecognizable” (God Rest Ye Merry, p. 70).
So Learn the Play They Are Running
“When they cheat, and we get angry, this is nothing less that us enabling their cheating to work, to have its intended effect. The appropriate response is for them to cheat, and for us to grin” (Rules, p. 22).
A Grab Bag of Observations About Torture
And because this is a grab bag, we will just rummage through it for now. Maybe later we can unpack it. If you would like to read more, a couple of good articles from opposing corners can be found here and here. That said, here are some thoughts of my very own. 1. You can …
When Mary Counted His Fingers
“The absolute Truth, the one who fills all things (Eph. 1:23) condescended to a place where He would have to fill his diapers. This — to the refined and philosophical mind — was outrageous, impudent, and even blasphemous . . . The ultimate Truth suckled at His mother’s breast, had ten fingers and ten toes, …
Let Them Cheat
“Conservative activists who are surprised or indignant at the gross lop-sidedness of the whole system are being foolish because they are expecting the devil to be a gentleman. They are expecting him to fight clean, and to avoid every form of fighting dirty. What makes us think he might do that? . . . The …
The Yarn in the Public Sweater
Our presenting issue currently is same-sex mirage, but the central issues involved in that extend into everything. What is the proper role of civil government, and who does the civil government answer to? I have been meaning to address the temptations presented by libertarianism for a while, and here is the occasion for it. But …
Hold Your Peace: ICYMI
So, then, there is this little side activity of mine that shows up in public from from time to time, and which would seem to require some explanation. The Jenny Geddes Band is a group of friends that like music as much as I do, and which has a floating, inchoate, but very loyal membership. …
The Final Answer in Swaddling Clothes
“Good Friday answers Nietzsche, Easter answers Schopenhauer, the Ascension answers Hegel, and Pentecost answers Spinoza. But Christmas is the final answer to Plato and Kant, and in many ways it is the foundational answer to all the others” (God Rest Ye Merry, p. 68).
The Applause Comes When He Has Been Dead Fifty Years
“The reformer cannot expect anything worthwhile to happen if all he hears is polite golf applause floating toward him from the establishment” (Rules for Reformers, p. 20)