Letter to the Editor: Concerning "And now for some words of encouragement" What should one do if one's own church requires masking in order to attend (everyone, 3 years and up)? I've just ...
You Keep Having Things to Say
Than to Serve in Heaven
“They want to rule the world, pure and simple, even if it is a smoking ruin by the time they get to rule it.”
Ride, Sally, Ride, p. 71
And Now for Some Words of Encouragement
America is currently in the grip of a fever, and fevers break. The task of conservative believers is not to have a good testimony during this time of feverish panic. Our necessary task is to still ...
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Yet Another Identity Group
Although the Exegesis is Uncertain
“As a result of his visionary thinking and visionary back-room dealing, he was soon the CEO of the largest oil company in the history of mankind. I think his oil company might be alluded to in Nebuchadnezzar’s dream of the big statue.”
Ride, Sally, Ride, p. 67
My Word is a Hammer
“His name was John Henry, and there was a divine sense of humor thing in that because he was a steel-driving preacher.”
Ride, Sally, Ride, p. 66
Hardball Huguenots
Introduction: One of the more famous taunts against the fighting prowess of the French is that they are “cheese-eating surrender monkeys.” The jokes are plentiful, and can be pretty funny, and, like much of such humor, historically ignorant. In the First World War, in that particular meat grinder of a war, the heroics of the …
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Misdirection
“Whenever you see wholesale titillation and razzle dazzle, you can be assured the real game is somewhere else.”
Ride, Sally, Ride, p. 64
The Littlejohn Letters
Letter to the Editor: I sighed with relief and felt the burden lift as I read through your article, Littlejohn, MacArthur, and the Binding of Conscience. You touched on three things that ...
Juxtaposition
“She was a set of walking incongruities. Her dress was plain cotton, and she was wearing the same kind of white sneakers that she had worn for years. Apart from the two novelties, she clearly had the Old Order Mennonite look. But the baseball cap made her feel like her head was on fire, and while she had no intention of playing the hussy, the lipstick made her feel like she was almost one.”
Ride, Sally, Ride, p. 42