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 …
Great Grace, Great Fear
Acts of the Apostles (11): Sermon Video Introduction: We come now to the famous story of Ananias and Sapphira, the moral of which is sometimes thought to be “look what happens to chintzy ...
Letters-0-Rama
Letter to the Editor: What biblical reasoning do we have for self-defense? Why is it justifiable for us to defend ourselves and others? Do you have any resources I can read on this ...
Letters Edited on the Road So Make Allowances
Letter to the Editor: Hello Pastor Doug!Where would you point someone (either to something written by you or a book or two you like) looking for reasons why the American War for Independence ...
Letters That Cover the Waterfront
Letter to the Editor: In Rev. 2:26–27, Christians are said to rule nations with a rod of iron, Psalm 2-style. If preterism is true (big "if"!! haha), what kind of ruling with an iron ...