I have the privilege of attending many commencement ceremonies, and they are not the kind that make you despair of western civilization. A week or so ago, we had the delight of seeing the next NSA class go out to make a dent in the world. “Make a big one!” is the substance of their …
Envy
Envy is a difficult sin for us to address in the modern era because in many cases we have sought to make it into a virtue. Jesus told about the workers hired at different times of the day to make a spiritual point directed at envy(Matt. 20:1-16); we take the side of the workers who …
Untethered Virtue and Other Spooky Thoughts
“Respect for rationality and the rights of the individual; a commitment to the ideals of disinterested criticism and color-blind justice; advancement according to merit, not according to sex, race, or ethnic origin: these quintessentially Western ideas are bedrocks of our political as well as our educational system. And they are precisely the ideas that are …
Exclusive Education Requires Exclusive Worship
“Christian education cannot be sustained apart from the exclusive worship of the triune God. And such worship cannot be offered to Him and to demos. He will not accept it, and, incidentally, neither will demos. The establishment of a Christian school movement is in principle a threat to the current establishment, and the establishment knows …
Yes, I Know There Are Many Godly Youth Ministers
I am re-posting this on December 2, 2015. I do this because I am currently in the midst of a controversy about the sexual crimes (and immorality) of Jamin Wight, one of our Greyfriars back in that era, and one of my adversaries dug this up with a screen grab of some kind, claiming I …
Baggage Handles
“The fact of the matter is that we can no more choose our culture and its languages than we can our parents. A trendy academic recently urged his peers to make a careful selection among what he called our ‘cultural baggage.’ We should not deceive ourselves, however. If our culture and its traditions are baggage, …
A Witty Comeback
After I linked to “why women live longer,” someone helpful sent this picture-spread riposte on women drivers. But all I can see are the cars. Don’t see any drivers at all.
Important Update
I am quite pleased with how the archives feature works now. As I added categories over time, my cyber-basement turned into quite a rats’ nest. But now (although the archives by date feature still works the same way), I have placed the posting categories into broader categories which should make navigation a breeze. Although I …
French Fries and Diet Coke
Just got a card in the mail that breathlessly announced to me that a bunch of Bill Sali’s campaign war chest, not to mention that of Robert Vasquez, comes from “out of state special interests.” Whoa. That’s bad, we are supposed to think. Then the thought comes, who was kind enough to get word of …
Gluttony
As we address the subject of gluttony, we must begin with an important qualificataion. This short essay is not about that second helping of mashed potatoes at Thanksgiving. At the same time, the issues here remain important ones. Gluttony does not refer to a desire to eat and drink, but rather to an inordinate desire. …