Introduction: I begin with the foundational axiom that Christ rose from the dead, and that He was who He claimed to be. Everything else follows. Christ is therefore Lord. He, the incarnate ...
All the Usual Topics, Along With Some Others
Letter to the Editor: "The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Here is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners.’ But wisdom is proved right by ...
Public Health and the Libertarian Lure
Introduction: As most of you well know, I do want to do whatever I can to encourage resistance to this overweening tyranny we all find ourselves dealing with. You know what the last year and a half ...
Theology Among the Deplorables
Preamble: That moment when you hear Rolling Stone wants to do a human interest story on the women of the CREC . . . When engaging with a subject like this one, I usually feel positively invited to limber up my keyboarding digits, and to then give way to some jolliment. But at the same …
Letters Rounding into the Straight
Letter to the Editor: This is not the article I wanted to read on the Maricopa County audit. In the first place, I wanted the audit to blow the lid off of a massive fraud. But since that ...
Preparing for the Savage Gods
Introduction: The reason the apostle John tells the members of a faithful Christian church to "keep yourselves from idols" is that he knew that there would be times when they did not want to keep themselves ...
Letters in Early October
Letter to the Editor: You and Toby got into a bit of a tiff with the Warhorn Media guys last year, which finally settled down when you posted "On Leaving a Church Over Masks." Unfortunately, ...
Letters, Missives, Epistles, Messages, Dispatches, and Communications
Letter to the Editor: "A man might be foolish for not seeing the tell tale signs of the trap . . . Other ministers foolishly failed in their calling by not recognizing the wolves in sheep’s ...
Understated Beauty
“Simplicity is beautiful when it is elegant. Complexity is beautiful when it is understated. The lines should be clean, not cluttered . . . Compare what we are going to do architecturally and liturgically with what a godly women should do to adorn herself. She should adorn herself, and she should make herself beautiful. But the Bible is explicit that this is not to be done by bedizening oneself with various spangles.”
Let the Stones Cry Out, p. 43
Letters of No Little Empathy
Letter to the Editor: Thank you for all your work. If you have a moment, would you mind providing a list of books that would help one think through the questions: "At what point should ...