Theology That Bites Back
Introduction: First, the definitions. Trump, well, you know that one. NFTs stands for "Non-Fungible Tokens,"which is a cryptographic asset embedded in a block chain, meaning that it has a distinct ...
Introduction: So this is a time when good writers reach into their tool chest in order to trot out a phrase like "much ballyhooed." The much ballyhooed red wave has hit the beach. It was not ...
Introduction: Either we are being ruled by a cabal of incompetents, whose twaddlesome deficiencies rise to near criminal levels, or we are being ruled by criminals, whose master plan is to continue ...
Introduction: This could be regarded as one of my periodic forays into the tangled thicket of "what gives with Israel?" You are to imagine it as me putting on a gray coat and blue trousers in order ...
Introduction: My grandson has informed me of Hanlon’s Razor, which states “never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.” I was previously aware of the sentiment, but not the attribution. These are words to live by. But of course we should also keep in mind the fact that stupid people can be …
Introduction: One of the things that everybody needs to be braced for is a spate of articles, books, think pieces, documentaries, and the like on the rising threat of Christian nationalism. That being ...
Below I have arranged 52 questions on the nature of liberty as biblically understood. If parents work through these questions with their children, memorizing one a week, by the end of that year, their children may serve as something of a bright spot on our otherwise dark horizon. I am crowd sourcing editorial suggestions on …
Introduction: Francis Fukuyama wrote his influential essay The End of History in 1992, and in terms of the macro-thesis, I think we have to say that it has not aged well. History appears to me like it is just limbering up. Mankind has not reached any kind of apotheosis in the secular state, and we …
So I haven’t had an opportunity yet to view 2000 Mules, but what with the buzz about it, and clips floating around, together with other bursts of info and what not, I need to say something. There is one aspect of the whole story that simply encapsulates our fin-de-siècle cluelessness in a nutshell. This one …
