Just a few more comments on Miss California, and then I am done. Done, that is, until the next revolution on this merry-go-round that we call cultural commentary. First, one commenter in the previous thread on this had a "physician, heal thyself" question which I thought would … [Read more...]

Am I prescient or what? Here is the reception that Miss California Carrie Prejean got at the gospel music Dove awards the other night. A standing ovation. And here is a clip from a press release by the Liberty Counsel "Miss California, Carrie Prejean will be in Lynchburg … [Read more...]

Our discussion of this issue can now continue without anybody having to speed scroll past the picture. I would have responded sooner, but was out of town at a conference. So here I am, getting up to speed. There were a number of good comments in the previous thread, but out of … [Read more...]

Well, let me say just a couple of serious things before I talk about what makes me wheeze. I saw an interview with Miss Carrie Prejean about her now infamous run-in with the kind of insane interaction that must have occurred on Lot's front porch. She seemed like a sweet and … [Read more...]

Last night Nancy and I watched Fireproof and I wanted to tell you what I thought of it. I figured I needed to give it a look because it is a big evangelical thing and some folks in my congregation had asked me about it. I did not have high expectations going into it for what I … [Read more...]

"Besides, I have observed, that old men have blessed themselves with this mistake; namely, taking the decays of nature for a gracious conquest over corruptions, and so have been apt to beguile themselves" (John Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress). … [Read more...]

We know that when she cast her eyes upon him, Joseph fled from Potiphar's wife (Gen. 39:12). We know also that Paul told Timothy to flee youthful lusts (2 Tim. 2:22). In a world crammed full of enticements to lust, adopting this basic strategy is something that a lot more men … [Read more...]

Nietzsche was a master wordsmith, and so he effectively projected a bad boy image of himself up on our culture's screen, an image calculated to make all his maiden Lutheran aunts shudder, and perhaps weep a little. But inside, that man was Burns' mouse beneath the harrow -- a wee … [Read more...]

See more Jack Black videos at Funny or Die No, I have not gone all nerdy on you, and yes, I am about to analyze the argument presented in the above musical spoof of California's Prop 8. Here is the argument presented by Prop 8: The Musical. Christians who profess to follow … [Read more...]

One of the testing points of wisdom is the matter of identifying what the real issue is. In ancient rhetoric, this is what stasis theory was about -- what is really at issue? What is the hinge upon which all turns? Luther complimented Erasmus at the conclusion of The Bondage of … [Read more...]