Introduction: In one sense, this chapter of Campbell's is inoffensive in that it is chock full of Christian advice and counsel. In another sense, that is one of the most offensive things about ...
Yes, Context Matters Quite a Bit
An Open Letter to President Trump About Heaven
Dear Mr. President, Greetings in the Lord. Thank you for your service to our country. As I have noted the various comments you have made about Heaven, I have felt burdened to write to you. I decided ...
You Know, Letters. It’s Tuesday.
Letter to the Editor: I was very excited to hear your interview with Ross Douthat. He is one of my favorite writers. It was a very good exchange. I would say that the way Ross asked questions ...
Bad Sinners Too
“So I don’t believe in free speech because I think that everybody has something valuable to say. No, I believe that all men and women are bad sinners, and it shows up in their speech. The trouble is that as soon as you start talking about regulating their free speech, because it is bad, all the possible enforcers and regulators are rock hewn from that same quarry. Censors are sinners too.”
Them Apples
Background Richard Land Really Should Have Had: This is the kind of meme that floats around, as you might already know. It appears to represent the extent of Richard Land's research. For your sake, ...
Brent and Christiana
We are assembled here in the name of Jesus Christ, and this means that we are assembled here in the presence of God. This is a Christian wedding, certainly, but not simply because it is being held in a Christian church, or because a Christian minister is officiating. Nor is it a Christian wedding just …
Letters Serving as a September Closer
Let me begin this letters installment with an expression of regret. Because I was out of the country last week and consequently did not post any letters, and because, upon my return, I have been ...
A Better Job Meeting the Wrong Standard
“For decades, we have been placing effeminate girly men in the pulpit, and this is one of the things that has given the progressive argument so much force. How can you demand femininity in the pulpit, and then argue with the fact that women would do a better job at that than our evangelical beta males do? And they would, too.”
Virgins and Volcanoes, p. 93
Reactionaries and Their Discontents
Introduction: In times of turbulent churn, one of the things you can usually anticipate is even more turbulence, especially from young men. Their reactions are often predictable, and therefore rational in one sense, while their selected scapegoat targets, upon which they vent, are often arbitrary and capricious. In other words, you can look at the …
Outlawing Good Men
“A return to sanity will be a return to an unapologetic acceptance of the fact that men are of necessity going to be dominant. They only choice we have as a society is between whether the dominance is going to be constructive or destructive. Because the poobahs in charge have spent the last generation or so outlawing every form of constructive male dominance they can identify, we are now discovering that—far from empowering women—they have actually empowered destructive male dominance. Put another way, when constructive male dominance is outlawed, only outlaws will have male dominance.”
Virgins and Volcanoes, pp. 72-73