Open Road Doug, you must post this one: Mark Mark, thanks. Okay, everybody, go take a look. It is a beautiful picture. Foundations of Social Justice I think you more or less addressed this, but the King/Trump comparison reminded me how much it … [Read more...]

Social Justice and Justification It follows, therefore, that the two predominant systems of social justification must fight a long and painful “religious” war. And, on the pointy end of every stick will be the biblically-distinct … [Read more...]

Apparently People Want to Discuss Libertarianism It seems that in secular libertarianism that one's rights and freedoms are decoupled from one's responsibilities. For any particular freedom is had in order to fulfill a specific responsibility. And that such … [Read more...]

Inappropriate Appropriation In your article titled “Appropriate This” you ask the question: “What do you call it when you have an acute case of vicarious embarrassment for someone who ought to be embarrassed about what they are doing, but somehow inexplicably is not?” I … [Read more...]

All the Aimee Posts Your unfolding review of Aimee Byrd's latest is an excellent little nugget of discernment. What especially comes across to me is the awareness of subtle fallacies which, when one has truly thought through the biblical principles involved, are not so … [Read more...]

Balsa Wood As one who works at the organization that built Solar Probe (and knows many of the good people who built it; yes it is audacious!), I very much liked your reference. And I do expect there will be some people who speak up about what happened in St Louis. We might not … [Read more...]

Notes for Aimee RE Rats Nest of a Situation (Review/Chapter 3/Why Can't We Be Friends?) Pastor Wilson writes: “‘Do we express our love for one another by not being friends?’ (Loc. 803). Again, note the we. And I would suggest that the answer to this question is yes. … [Read more...]

Refried Revoice No post in particular: In your most recent Plodcast you talked about Revoice and mentioned the idea of Eros (facing each other) and Friendship (side by side). I was reminded of That Hideous Strength: “Those who are enjoying something, or suffering something … [Read more...]

Gaslighting is a Thing I’d encourage you to avoid liberal categories like gaslighting. It definitely might happen, but which is more likely in our culture -- a woman genuinely being manipulated, or one who just has a problem submitting? Dan Dan, well, actually, I have … [Read more...]

Just Breaking The president has now nominated Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. Feel free to use the comments here to comment on that. Open thread. But don’t forget the other issues . . . Continued Revoice Troubles There was no link for the “rent an evangelical” … [Read more...]