Dear Darla, So I take it that things are getting a mite serious over there. Good for you. I trust you are smiling at him brightly? That apparently being the case, let me compare and contrast two ...
A Different Kind of Daddy Issue
Letters on Bait, Baggage, Books and More
Letter to the Editor: Thank you for the reminder to "Not Take the Bait". This, of course, is wise advice. I worry that some numbskull will go off half-cocked and do something really stupid. ...
A Nest of Asian Murder Hornets Mistaken for a Piñata
Whenever something like this Meet the Press thing happens, all kinds of thoughts crowd into my head unbidden. And while one must always keep in mind that trenchant observation of Wodehouse, which is that some minds are like the soup in a bad restaurant, better left unstirred, it remains the case that other things simply …
Courtship and Sexual Baggage
Dear Darla, So it is very good that your father is putting Trent through his paces. I take it that apart from the central question of your last letter, everything appears to be going swimmingly? So let’s get to it. As to that central question, you raised the issue of his past porn use generally …
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Letters Waft Gently Down, Like Autumn Leaves
Letter to the Editor: With reference to your post entitled "So the Answer is 'No'" I don't have a particular argument to make with regard to women in the military, and I am not a Hebrew scholar, ...
So the Answer is No
[Concerning Deut. 22:5] “Transvestite men certainly are condemned here, but the language with regard to the women is quite different. The operative phrase in this passage is keli gabar, the gear of a warrior. A woman is not to wear the gear of a fighter. The prohibition is not one of slacks, but rather of helmets and heavy rifles.”
The Cultural Mind, p. 129
Why Not More Letters?
Letter to the Editor: This is a question regarding your recent post about not taking the bait. First, I agree that we ought not to take the bait and do our best Quaker impression as you say. ...
Love, Honor, and Obey
Dear Darla, So his name is Trent, is it? Lucky dog. This means that you are now going to be thinking through a number of the things I have written in the earlier letters, but now doing so in a very ...
Letters on Mabloggy Stuff
Letter to the Editor: I watched your March 4, 2013 debate with Andrew Sullivan and your March 26, 2021 advice for Christians . I grew up with the LCMS version of Christianity and still hold ...
In Which Letters Bring Us More in Touch With Our Deeper More Spiritual Selves
Letter to the Editor: This is in reference to your blog, Crossway at a Crossroads. I also posted this on your Youtube site. Doug, you impugn Carl Trueman for (paraphrased) "analyzing Rousseau ...