The worldmagblog food fight apparently continues, although everyone appears to be almost out of ammo. Steve Wilkins found out about the fracas after it had been going for several days, and sent a statement I will include below to worldmagblog, which they posted under a separate thread. I am posting Steve’s comments here in their …
My Relationship With World
I think it can fairly be said that I am (and remain) a friend of World magazine. I have a link to the magazine off to the left, as you can see, and my wife and I are subscribers. I used to be on the masthead a number of years ago, and have written for …
Son of Can’t Tell the Players
Tim Rigsby was a late-comer to the “slavery conference” controversy here in Moscow, but has tried to do some tub-thumping to help generate opposition to our next history conference (which is not on slavery, just like the last one was not on slavery). Our next history conference is part of the upcoming Trinity Fest in …
Can’t Tell the Players Without a Scorecard
I have referred before to the very odd coalition that has formed in opposition to the various ministries of Christ Church. My calling it a coalition is not just based on the fact that people happen to be opposing the same entity (making them cobelligerents). The coalition, in a number of places, is a functioning …
Getting Up To Speed
For anyone who needs to get up to speed on the latest scuffling, some of the backstory for the article in World can be found on this blog in the Archives, under General Ruminations, around the time of August 2004. I am not saying that you do need to get up to speed, but if …
What in the World?
In the latest edition of World magazine, just out, a short article has appeared on the flap surrounding the booklet Southern Slavery As It Was. In that article, I was quoted (accurately) as saying that this was an issue where we deserved the lump on our head. This being the case, I also want to …
Not Fooling Anybody
One of the demands of any polemical exchange is the demand of naming. In every dispute, both sides always want to define the nature of the dispute. This need to name properly is not optional for the party that is in the right. Everyone has to do it. But when one of the parties is …
Hostility and Discrimination
In the alternative universe of some, mere assertion substitutes for argument. An assertion that Christ Church, NSA, and other ministries, should start “obeying the law,” is enough to persuade a certain kind of mind that we must not have been obeying the law. But of course, in a sober kind of universe, this kind of …
Takes the Breath Away
Bob Dylan once said that you don’t have to be a weatherman to tell which way the wind is blowing. Seeing that there is a concerted campaign of harassment against private education in Moscow is about as difficult as one of those test-your-smarts questions in kids’ magazines. Three triangles and a circle in a row. …
What Is Actually Happening
A year or two ago, I bowed out as a participant in the Vision 20/20 discussion group. I had come to the conclusion that pursuing a discussion with the people who were diligently trying (successfully) to turn it into Venom 20/20 was like arguing with the troubled guy trying to squeegee your windshield at a …