Not Detritus At All
“What we are looking at through our telescopes is not the debris field and leftover gasses from a large and rather unfortunate explosion . . . Lord Sabaoth means Lord of hosts, Lord of the armies, Lord of all the stars.”
The Light From Behind the Sun, p. 141
Seeing From Afar
“Has any mortal seen Heaven? Well, actually, all of us have seen the outskirts. If you ask a typical modern if he has ever seen an angel, you will likely get laughed at. You are likely to get this treatment even if the modern you ask happens to be a professing Christian. ‘Seeing angels’ is something our more excitable brethren on the charismatic fringes do, and we by contrast are sober, responsible, upright, not drunk, and pretty dude. And so when one of these buttoned-up-tight Christians tells you that he has never seen an angel, has it ever occurred to you to point at the night sky and ask, ‘So what are those?’”
The Light From Behind the Sun, p. 140
Nice Guys and Jerks
Dear Dawson, I think I have laid enough groundwork now. Let’s go back and do some post-game analysis of your break-up with Jan. Now keep in mind that some of this might sting a little bit, but that ...
Well, Hey
“And even Chesterton, who takes shots at Calvinism every third chance he gets, cannot stay out of the truth. For example, in Orthodoxy he says, ‘Thus he has always believed there is such a thing as fate, but such a thing as free will also.’ Well, hey, and amen.”
The Light From Behind the Sun, p. 104
New Letters for a New Year
Letter to the Editor: Regarding Hemingway and the 2020 setup, the big hole in your argument is that the GOP had a federal trifecta early on, and here in Georgia they still have a ...
Not Too Buttoned Up
“The writer of the Song of Solomon wrote some poetry that insinuated his sexual imagination into the sexual experience of other people, and these other people, the readers, were not married to him.”
The Light From Behind the Sun, p. 127
An Election With More Rigging Than a Five-Masted Clipper Ship
Introduction I have written on this topic before, but the need continues. This is because presidential elections are not one-off historical events, like the Norman Conquest or the invention of the printing press. No, they are recurring events, and what you make room for in earlier elections will become standard in subsequent elections. If you …
No Rivalry
“The beautiful words Naphtali speaks do not displace content-bearing words. A pearl necklace on a beautiful woman is not extraneous.”
The Light From Behind the Sun, p. 125