“That mission statement was, ’To fight the pagan death cult until we hang their last dog’”
Ecochondriacs, p. 34
Studying Hard
“He defined ecological sanity as a world that didn’t have any environmentalists in it anymore, except three at the South Pole perhaps, studying the weather. Not the climate, but the weather”
Ecochondriacs, p. 33
Religious Liberty, Blasphemy, and a Forthcoming Movie
Introduction: One of the things that is fueling our current cultural turmoil is our failure to agree on what constitutes blasphemy. We have gotten to the point where everyone is reacting to ...
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And That’s Good Writing
“The prose read like it had been written by the archangel Gabriel—when the muse was on him, when he was writing hot, and was going real good”
Ecochondriacs, p. 31
Falling on Us Like Epistolary Dew on the Roses of Truth
Letter to the Editor: Superb post on envy as one of the big sources of the darkness of this present world system. One of the things about believing that Christ died for my sin is that I have ...
A Total Unit
“The man sitting in front of him was a total unit, like two or three Navy SEALS packed into one. Moreover, he looked like a logger, the kind that could walk out of the woods with a tree under each arm”
Ecochondriacs, p. 31
That Little Lizard Self Inside
Introduction: I want you to work with me on a thought experiment, and it is a thought experiment with two constituent parts. Weighed rightly, this leads naturally to a consideration of real gospel, permeated throughout with real grace. The first thing is that with this imaginary humanity that I am about to construct—in the second …
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A Tough Cookie
“He was a hard case, with a straight-line edge, but not a sociopath. That said, if he ever got bitten by a diamondback, the snake would be the one that died”
Ecochondriacs, p. 30
There’s Always a Bright Side
He, Like They
“He, like they, talked a serious game, for the future of the planet was at stake, and he, like they, was more or less a lummox, an oaf, and a simpleton”
Ecochondriacs, pp. 26-27