Introduction: Last Friday the Supreme Court dropped its 5/4 ruling in the Dobbs case, effectively reversing the infamous Roe decision of 1973. Their decision ended 49 long years of political heartbreak, ...
Sounds Kind of Insurrectioney, Jane
Introduction: We are coming up on the release of the Supreme Court decision on Dobbs. In anticipation of that decision, quite a few people are bracing for real trouble. As they ought to be. ...
A Banana Republic, But Without Any Bananas
Prolegomena to Any Future Monkeyshines: So then, let us review. Donald Trump, for all his mean tweets, was sitting on top of a pretty robust economy. When the infamous J6 protest went down, ...
Theological Deplorables
Introduction: Let me begin this thing with a little story that is somewhat off topic, but it does illustrate the point that I will be making more broadly. One time I had occasion to debate the head ...
White Boy Summer, or How Republics Rot
Introduction: When the thick fog of a judicial stupor has descended upon a people, there is really no way to write a sprightly article that will successfully explain to everyone how we might ...
SCOTUS and Throckmorton, Two Hot Takes, Sorry About That, I Know It’s Early
SCOTUS: Yesterday somebody leaked a draft opinion written by Justice Alito, in which we were given a strong indication that Roe v. Wade was going to be struck down. In response to this, I tweeted the following. If Roe has been struck down, then glory to God. But sit tight—the unprecedented leak means that we …
Truth Veneer in a White Oak Pattern
Introduction: Evangelical Christians are nice, and so when they lie it is in the interests of keeping things nice. They therefore have a hard time comprehending those unsavory characters who ...
The Naughty Boy of Evangelicalism
Introduction: One of the things I learned from the late Gary North was the three-fold division regarding different kinds of religion. There were, according to his taxonomy, these three: power religion, escape religion, and dominion religion. This grid can be applied to all religions, which means it can also be applied to the evangelical subsets …
Ghastly Simplicity
Introduction: Some things cannot be said without presupposing other things. All words require a speaker. All laws require a legislature. All design presupposes a designer. All morality assumes a standard. ...
The Authority of True Revival
Introduction: A.W. Tozer once said that if revival means more of what we have going on now, then we most certainly do not need revival. But we do in fact need revival, and I want to write ...