Introduction: Try to ignore the steely-eyed and thoughtful gaze. I just look that way occasionally, and can’t help it. So just about a week ago, the guys at Canon Press took a snippet of mine from the “Sin of Empathy” episode of Man Rampant, put it into a meme, and posted it on Facebook. They …
Letters Help Us Communicate, While It Is Still Legal to Do So
Letter to the Editor: Re: Free speech, you say that Christian principles "will eventually show up in the law, but will not be implement through the law." So are you envisioning a law against ...
Free Speech in a Christian Theocracy
Introduction: One of the reasons why the question of free speech in a hypothetical Christian republic is such an interesting topic is because it brings together all kinds of issues, and presents them ...
As Smoke Ascends to Gods Who Aren’t There
Introduction: In Jonah Goldberg's most recent G-File, he has extended rumination on the distinctions between faith and belief. It was a thought-provoking piece, and so here are some thoughts on apologetics ...
Missed Opportunity
“Of the three women, the one who was out in front and apparently the spokesman for them all could have been attractive if she had wanted to be, or she used to be attractive, or something of that nature. The other two were in a different category entirely. They looked like nothing on earth”
Ecochondriacs, p. 57
That Sort of Pother
“And at just that moment, there was a clatter and a rustle and pother of self-importance at the door of the office, and three women, of the protesting variety, came in.”
Ecochondriacs, p. 57
The Content Cluster Muster (05.13.21)
Open Road by the Sea: And more here. Screwtape for Women: Some good stuff here and here. Some Lessons We All Need to Master: And I am talking about the fundamental rules of politics. Jokes I Like to Tell: One time an elderly man and his wife were unfortunately killed in a car accident. But …
The Duties of Christian Cops
Introduction: So we live in topsy turvy times, do we not? That being the case, we need to budget for the topsies turving, and turvies topsing. We all need to do a little better at anticipating what ...
Falling on Us Like Epistolary Dew on the Roses of Truth
Letter to the Editor: Superb post on envy as one of the big sources of the darkness of this present world system. One of the things about believing that Christ died for my sin is that I have ...
That Little Lizard Self Inside
Introduction: I want you to work with me on a thought experiment, and it is a thought experiment with two constituent parts. Weighed rightly, this leads naturally to a consideration of real gospel, permeated throughout with real grace. The first thing is that with this imaginary humanity that I am about to construct—in the second …