Introduction: One of the challenges that comes with getting married is that, barring any high crimes, it is a vocation that comes with tenure. This is why it is so important for courting couples to ...
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Disorderly Wives
Turned Up to Eleven
“’Any news?’ he said querulously. It sounded like someone was messing with his tremolo knob”
Ecochondriacs, p. 90
Always Nice to Get a Letter
Letter to the Editor: Yes and amen. So who is Stonewall or who are the Virginians at least? And where are they? And when is it time to cut our losses where we are in order to be where they ...
A Stonewall Moment of Some Sort Is Needed
Introduction: I do understand that the sexual revolution has their very own version of Stonewall, the one that Obama celebrated when he said that the arc of history was turning out to be in sync with ...
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Don’t Ever Try to Build on Lies
“Son, I don’t want you to ever apologize to somebody just because they say to. If you owe them one, don’t make them ask. You should be there ahead of them. And if you don’t owe them one, then your apology is not anything with them. It is trying to put things back together on the foundation of a lie. And lies always collapse under any weight you try to put on them”
Ecochondriacs, p. 87
Well, I Walked From the Car
They Don’t Even Know Most of the Words
“Cody suddenly realized that his internal moral monitor, his robust conscience, was going to wake up any minute and start swearing at him like a machinist mate on a tramp steamer. That would not be good. That would be unsettling. Evangelical consciences don’t usually cuss like that”
Ecochondriacs, p. 81
Update from Nate on the Stickergate Prosecution
Dear Friends, Many of you have been asking for an update on the prosecutions of my sons (and myself) surrounding the Soviet Moscow protest stickers. While the City of Moscow has terminated the local mask mandate and dropped the charges against those arrested at the protest/psalm sing, they are continuing to pursue prosecution of both …
Innocence Bumps Its Head
“‘But . . . what about academic freedom? . . . what about my arguments? . . . what about the truth?’
‘What did you get your doctorate in? Idealism? On hobbits dancing in meadows?’”
Ecochondriacs, p. 80
Unless God Thinks You Wronged Her
Introduction: Try to ignore the steely-eyed and thoughtful gaze. I just look that way occasionally, and can’t help it. So just about a week ago, the guys at Canon Press took a snippet of mine from the “Sin of Empathy” episode of Man Rampant, put it into a meme, and posted it on Facebook. They …
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