Ponderosa Pine Bark Chips
“If anyone seriously thinks by going natural, he will be escaping The Establishment, finally getting away from The Man and from the clutches of the good corporations, I have a bit of bad news. The corporations are way ahead of you. There are high-powered boards sitting around half-an-acre mahogany tables on the thirty-third floors of …
Those Letters Keep Coming
The Liberalism is Not in Remission Yet Pastor Doug, have you seen this? Thoughts? https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/10-lessons-from-reformation-in-sbc/ I find it ironic since from the contact I have with people in local SBC churches, liberalism is far from having been defeated. Amanda Amanda, I thought that article was outstanding, and on point. I like Al Mohler a great …
Bueller? Bueller? Mueller?
So let us begin with what the president tweeted on Sunday. “I hereby demand, and will do so officially tomorrow, that the Department of Justice look into whether or not the FBI/DOJ infiltrated or surveilled the Trump Campaign for Political Purposes—and if any such demands or requests were made by people within the Obama Administration!” …
Dirty Omniscience
Introduction: The next time you find yourself in need of a deeply unsettling experience, I suggest that you click here, and then scroll through some of the things that Dylan Curran found out about himself, as stored up by some of our brainier brethren. All the same stuff has no doubt been stored up about …
The Courteous Thing to Do
Not Responsive, In Other Words
“And so this explains why, when harangued, I do not run off. I just sit there, like a scolded cat” (Confessions of a Food Catholic, p. 72).
Les Mis: A Worldview Lab
Contrary to popular assumptions about “worldview,” the issue involves much more than simply the propositions you think. Thinking certainly is an important part of it all, but much more is necessary—as a particular case study of Les Mis may show. For many reasons, I believe that reactions to Les Mis are a great way for …
No Atoms Either
“Every time I see something advertised as ‘all natural and free of chemicals’ I brace myself for the day—and it cannot be far off now—when certain food items are touted on the package as being entirely ‘molecule free’” (Confessions of a Food Catholic, p. 72).
Gadsden Love
The second greatest commandment is that we should love our neighbor as we love ourselves (Lev. 19:18). The command presupposes that we love ourselves, and tells us to render that same kind of love to our neighbor. This became problematic for conservative believers over the last generation or so because representatives of our therapeutic and …