“When it comes to the culture wars, distinguish between those who are tired from being on the right side, and those who are tired of being on the right side” (Same Sex Mirage, p. 126). … [Read more...]
A Limit to Everything
Quite the Hailstorm
“Evangelicals are nice, there is no getting around it. It is our besetting sin. That means about the worst thing you can tell us is that we are being mean to somebody. Maybe that meanness is turning someone away from Jesus. Our niceness is the steering wheel that we always want … [Read more...]
Kavanaugh, Social Justice, and #MeToo
An alternative title for this post could have been “Justice is Never Wholesale.” Justice is always particular, having to do with individuals and their situations. You can never buy justice in bulk at CostCo. At the general level, there can be just laws, but if you apply those … [Read more...]
A Vanishing Center
Although it be Tuesday, there will be no letters or responses today. It is a long and unhappy tale, what with me being on the road, and the wireless on my laptop konking out, such that I am reduced to typing with one finger on my iPad, and I don’t have ready access to your … [Read more...]
And It Happened So Quickly
“Liberals have become what they have always professed to detest: bigots” (Same Sex Mirage, p. 117). … [Read more...]
Viewing the Kavanaugh Game Film
1 I knew that the Left had been guilty of a gross overreach late last week, prior to the final confirmation vote on Kavanaugh. I was en route to an early morning 6 am meeting, and stopped at a convenience store for some coffee. The other customer in there was a … [Read more...]
But Their Own They Tolerate Quite Well
“Secularism is incoherent, like a plane made out of spherical cubes. What has our tolerant state done? Well, they have outlawed discrimination. They are intolerant of intolerance, which means, in effect, that the only intolerance they will tolerate is their own, and this on the … [Read more...]
There’s an App for That
Go With Him Two
“Jesus simply refused to answer Herod at all. Herod wanted Jesus to do a trick. Why didn’t Jesus apply His own teaching here and do two tricks?” (Same Sex Mirage, p. 112). … [Read more...]