Inspired by the spirit of our times, I have decided to throw together a gallimaufry of random observations. A salmagundi of insights, as it were, or an Eton mess of ironic inversions, a mĂ©lange of right wing virtue signaling, a potpourri of punditry. And see how you like it. This is the sort of moment …
The Death Cult of Expressive Individualism
Introduction: The battle of our time is the war between those who demand their right to be creators, over against those who seek to defend their right to be creatures. Everything comes down to that simple division. The Two Ways: A corollary of the first position—that we must be untrammeled creators, that we must be …
Allies, Co-belligerents, and Strange Bedfellows
Introduction: As our cultural . . . what shall we call it? . . . as our cultural melee continues apace, one of the problems Christians will increasingly have is the one caused by the political need ...
Devoured by Cannabis
Introduction: The ongoing push to legalize recreational marijuana in all fifty states is a very clever juke move on the part of the progressive left. It certainly looks like an expansion of personal liberty, but it doesn’t smell that way at all. Liberty smells like crisp mountain air, right next to a glacier-fed lake. Legalized …
The Fiasco of No Fear
Introduction: I am currently enjoying a book by Michael Reeves and Joel Beeke called Following God Fully: An Introduction to the Puritans. It is a marvelous book thus far, but I bring it up merely ...
Ain’t Got Time to Take a Fast Train
Letter to the Editor: Moscow, Idaho. Greetings, a little bit of a personal note. I think I had forgotten that you were based out of Moscow. Back in the day, my father and mother were owners ...
Jory Micah and the Hall of Lame
Introduction: https://twitter.com/douglaswils/status/1372604409306177538 There seems to be an odd impulse that follows any kind of mass shooting, and that is the impulse that some people have ...
Many Letters, None of Which Urged Us to Kill the Wabbit
Letter to the Editor: Thank you for continuing to shed gospel light on these dark times. Over the past year, I’ve struggled to put words to the deep feeling that everything we have experienced ...
John Piper and the Fire in the Attic
Introduction: The best book of devotional theology I have ever read was God is the Gospel by John Piper. The first time I read it, as soon as I was done, I went back to the first page and started ...
In Which Time Magazine Reports That We Have Always Been at War with Eastasia
Introduction: Time magazine has published a remarkable piece, one which might leave more than a few sensible observers gobsmacked. It is a piece which acknowledges all manner of jiggering with this ...