Letter to the Editor: Re: Application, Allergies & Anaphylaxis For the last several years I have noticed concrete applications coming from pulpits where I live becoming as rare ...
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Application, Allergies & Anaphylaxis
Introduction: One of the great characteristics of modern Reformed preaching and teaching is that there appears to be a deep and abiding aversion to making any concrete applications. Sometimes various things are decorated as though they might be a matter of possible application, but this is illusory, like a heat shimmer off a highway in …
How Feminumbulum Got Into Everything
"Oh, what a tangled web we weaveWhen first we practice to deceive . . ." Sir Walter Scott Introduction: How it started . . . This famous summary ...
Letters in the Electoral Backwash
Letter to the Editor: One thing is puzzling me. Since they can rig elections, why didn't they also rig 2024? Jennifer Jennifer, three things occur to me. One is that ...
Just a Slaughterhouse
Introduction: Okay, so this was much less of an ordinary election, and much more like a richly deserved paddy-wonking. There are many aspects of this gaudy thing that need to be analyzed with loud hoots of joy, along with some aspects that need to be given the Burkean stink eye. So here goes. I have …
Wimpathy
Introduction: A few years ago, Joe Rigney caused something of a stir when we recorded an episode of Man Rampant together in which he made a crucial distinction between sympathy and empathy. We might call the latter “untethered and toxic empathy” for short. Sympathy is simply fellow feeling, and we have good New Testament examples …
Mostly Peaceful Letters
Letter to the Editor: My wife has been watching Charlie Kirk clips, who I think is a generally smart guy with good things to say. But then she showed me the following video, which immediately ...
Blue Ruin, Black Redemption, Golden Glory
Introduction: Everything is in a bad way, by which we mean in a horrendous way, and everybody knows it. But the reason everything is in such a bad way is not a matter of misfortune or bad luck. ...
Letters Do Help to Pass the Time
Letter to the Editor: I have to think the threat of Trump, who could not be bought off, exposing Epstein's and Sean "Diddy" Combs' "clients" might be driving threats on his life. There ...
A Sexual Marketplace
So the reasons for a young man marrying young, as outlined elsewhere, seem fairly compelling. So why are so few young men doing this? What is the hold up? Why can’t they get with the program? The short answer is that people respond to incentives and they respond to disincentives also. These incentives and disincentives …