“The time to train your kids is when they’re kids.”
Keep Your Kids, p. 84
Because That’s Not Like Him
“We need to be done with leaders who want to be like Jesus, only not so bloody.”
The Bonding Agent
“Biblical masculinity is cultural gluten. Without it the cookie just crumbles to pieces in your hand, and is tasteless on top of that. Or someone at the organic equivalent of DuPont comes up with an artificial bonding agent that either doesn’t work or turns the cookie into an all-natural shower tile.”
The Custody Battle
“Biblical child-rearing is a gigantic custody battle between the state and Christ.”
Keep Your Kids, p. 80
Letters From the Likes of You
Girlhood in Merica Letter to the Editor: This is in response to your suggestion in that podcast to force Muslims to convert to Christianity (amongst other things you want to do to them): ...
Different Kinds of Special Effects
“In such a movie, a petite woman can throw five 300-pound guys around like they were made of balsa wood. All she has to do is have the director on her side. But that’s not the way it works in the real world. If your daughter buys into it, at some point she is going to be thirty-eight, owner of her own company, very lonely, and wondering where all the good men have gone. It turns out they didn’t want to be married to a girl boss.”
Keep Your Kids, p. 78
Liberty is a Religious Value
“So I don’t want liberty for secularists because secularism is true—it isn’t. Secularism is an opium dream, complete with flashing eyes and floating hair. I want liberty for secularists because Jesus is Lord. Because Jesus is Lord, the right of fallen sinners to wield coercive power must be strictly limited. One of the toughest lessons for sinners to learn is the necessity of leaving other sinners alone.”
Blut und Boden Sounds Scarier in German
Introduction: The worst corruptions are corruptions of the very best things. The devil himself fell from a very great height, and it is not surprising that the greatest creational gifts can be turned ...
Springsteen Digested
This morning Nancy and I had a really fun time going down to watch our fourth annual Fourth of July parade. It was a blast, and for quite a number of reasons. Thousands of people turned out, and the parade entries were just one motorized slab of Americana after another. It was just the right …
Strategies for Celebrating the Fourth
