Letter to the Editor: In the last line of the postscript to Worser and Worser you wrote: "I have sometimes thought—and why not admit it?—that I am despised in so many corners of effete ...
Letters Have Arrived. Once More.
Worser and Worser
Introduction: @BonifaceOption recently said something that really needs to be carved into marble, and then memorized by your children, and then embroidered on all your cushions, and then tattooed on the insides of your eyelids. This is what he said: “This is the thing: they cannot stop people who are truly having fun.”@BonifaceOption The picture …
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Three Ministries
“The family is the ministry of health, education and welfare. The Church is the ministry of grace and peace. The civil magistrate is the ministry of justice. But the (non-institutional) government that supports and makes possible all three of these is self-government.”
Gashmu Saith It, pp. 42-43
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Some People’s Emotions are Well-Behaved, That’s All
“We like to describe self-controlled people as ‘unemotional,’ but what we really mean is that their emotions are not half-civilized yard apes on a sugar rush.”
Gashmu Saith It, p. 41
Bright Neon
“In a biblical framework, you and all your feelings are like a first-grade teacher taking her whole class to some busy downtown museum, and because she loves them, every last one of them is on a neon-colored leash.”
Gashmu Saith It, p. 40
Quick Retraction
In a recent one of my Plodcasts (discussing the possible overturning of Roe), I said that after the Supremes voted on Obergefell, a lot of pressure was applied to Kennedy, which caused him to subsequently flip. This was a howler on my part. That is what happened in Planned Parenthood v. Casey. I made that …
The Value of Gender Stereotypes
Dear Dawson, By this point you have probably noticed that I have been engaging in what is now called “gender stereotyping.” Perhaps you were brought up by such polite parents that you were able ...
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What God is After
“Hard teaching creates tender hearts. Tender teaching creates hard hearts. The jackhammer of the Word breaks up our hard hearts. The feather duster of the Word leaves our hard hearts just where they were.”
Gashmu Saith It, p. 38
From the Mailbag, As You Expected
Letter to the Editor: I really enjoyed this article. I just had a question nagging me throughout it. What are the ethics of holding a protest when it negatively effects businesses ...