Letter to the Editor: This all reminds me of a lesson I taught a few years ago to my 6th grade choir. The demographic of the group was 70% boys and 30% girls. While we sang 90% of the time ...
Letters in a September Hue
The American Creedle
Introduction: I would like to draw your attention to comments that were recently made by Neil Gorsuch, one of the more sensible members of our Supreme Court. And, as those comments should reveal, it ...
Always the Last Thing You Think Of
Psychotic Empathy
Introduction: As I write these words, the trial of Lindsay Clancy in Massachusetts is wrapping up. She killed her three kids a few years ago, and the trial is over whether she did so in the grip of post partum psychosis, and so not guilty by reason of insanity, or whether she was responsible for …
Letters on the DoorSept, I Mean Doorstep
Letter to the Editor: Would you please share with us who deeply appreciate your ministry and the whole CREC/Moscow Mood, what you think fuels the gut reaction against all this by the "standard ...
A Sabbath Variation
“It does seem awkward and asymmetrical to say that the timeless moral authority of the Decalogue arises out of nine and a half of the commands. Nobody likes seeing the Ten Commandments walk with a limp.”
Concise and to the Point, p. 62
Both Brilliant and Blind
Introduction: I first read Eric Hoffer's book The True Believer in 1984, over forty years ago now. I had also read Orwell's 1984 in that same year because I thought it was an appropriate time ...
As In, No Bueno
“One of my daughters described the youth ministries of many churches as ‘potato salad at room temperature.’ Sleepovers! Lock-ins! Back rubs! Jesus!”
Concise and to the Point, p. 58
Ah, Yes. It is the Way.
A Basic Distinction
“To object to an ambulance chaser is not to display a calloused disregard for the pain of the people in the ambulances. To object to hypochondriacs is not the same thing as being insensitive to those who are really sick.”
Concise and to the Point, p. 57