“The sillier a position gets, the more shouting is required to keep people from asking those pesky questions.”
The Cultural Mind, p. 127
Why Not More Letters?
Letter to the Editor: This is a question regarding your recent post about not taking the bait. First, I agree that we ought not to take the bait and do our best Quaker impression as you say. ...
The Bait Lies Before You Now. Do Not Take It.
Introduction: Either we are being ruled by a cabal of incompetents, whose twaddlesome deficiencies rise to near criminal levels, or we are being ruled by criminals, whose master plan is to continue ...
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And One Day, the Memes Just Started Making Themselves . . .
Oh . . .
No Such Thing as Random
“Social calamities, therefore, must not be understood as ‘random bad things’—our God is a God who keeps covenant, and this necessarily includes covenant blessings and curses. And this cannot be understood apart from a diligent study of Scripture and church history up to the present.”
The Cultural Mind, p. 125
Love, Honor, and Obey
Dear Darla, So his name is Trent, is it? Lucky dog. This means that you are now going to be thinking through a number of the things I have written in the earlier letters, but now doing so in a very ...
The Hand of God in Fear
“The teaching of the Bible here is that the chaos of panic is not a response to chastisement but is part of the chastisement itself.”
The Cultural Mind, p. 124
Letters on Mabloggy Stuff
Letter to the Editor: I watched your March 4, 2013 debate with Andrew Sullivan and your March 26, 2021 advice for Christians . I grew up with the LCMS version of Christianity and still hold ...
Affection for Israel as Biblical Requirement
Introduction: This could be regarded as one of my periodic forays into the tangled thicket of "what gives with Israel?" You are to imagine it as me putting on a gray coat and blue trousers in order ...
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