As I noted in my brief review of Pride and Prejudice below, Jane Austen is amazing. A truly wise woman, she wrote a novel of two kinds of people — people who change and grow, and people who do not. This is simply another way of marking those who are capable of repentance and those …
Calling All Word Pirates
Let me start by giving a quick plug, then make some comments about the art of wordcraft, and then return to the plug. The plug relates to the release of Nate’s latest book by HarperCollins next week. The Outlaws of Time is a fantastic read, and you can order it here. And if that were …
These Things Are Hard
Geopolitical Trash Talk
Let me tell you a story. My ultimate purpose is to talk about the Russian jets buzzing one of our ships in a strafing formation, but first I want to tell you a story. When I was in the Navy on the USS Tusk (SS 428)– the picture attached is one of me obscuring the …
Two Boats and a Helicopter
This is what it looks like when you hit a nerve. A couple days ago I put forward 7 reasons why young men should marry 6 years earlier (on average) than they are doing now. This was hailed by some as the best thing they have heard in a long time, and denounced by others …
Jerusalem Had a Wall
So what can we learn about our controversy over illegal immigration from what the Bible tells us about the gift of tongues? Obvious question, right? “Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men. In the law it is written, With men of other tongues and other …
7 Reasons Young Men Should Marry Before Their 23rd Birthday
I want to argue that the war on marriage has many fronts. And while evangelical Christians have done a decent job in resisting some of the more outlandish attacks (e.g. Obergefell), in other areas we have tended to go along with the secular flow completely. One area where acquiescence is evident is when it comes …
Twice as Much Water!
It used to be that discrimination was a good word. A man with discriminating taste was a man with aesthetic standards that he understood and applied in wisdom. Now discrimination is an all-purpose term of condemnation designed to shut you up, Christian. Of course, discrimination is one of those words that carry the inescapable concept …
Never Silent
“Find me one place in the universe that is silent about Him. The stars sing about Him. The oceans provide the bass line. The mountain ranges skip like a calf, and the tree reach yearningly toward the Heaven that they so wonderfully represent to us. And the azure sky tells men to stop bonking their …
Dead Heat
I am not tired of talking about politics. Are you tired of talking about politics? Let me begin with a brief note about dear old Bernie Sanders. In any other universe, the fact that he had won six of the last seven primaries would count as something called “momentum.” But since the Democratic Party is …