Introduction: One of the features of the woke spasm we are in the middle of is that saying things that were unexceptional a week or two ago might land you in a national firestorm tomorrow. Shoot, you ...
The Revolt of the Normals, Part 1
Introduction: I have been asked quite a few times how long I think that our current cultural woke spasm can continue. The answer lies somewhere in between "longer than you might think" and "not indefinitely." ...
A Stonewall Moment of Some Sort Is Needed
Introduction: I do understand that the sexual revolution has their very own version of Stonewall, the one that Obama celebrated when he said that the arc of history was turning out to be in sync with ...
Free Speech in a Christian Theocracy
Introduction: One of the reasons why the question of free speech in a hypothetical Christian republic is such an interesting topic is because it brings together all kinds of issues, and presents them ...
A Gallimaufry of Random Observations
Inspired by the spirit of our times, I have decided to throw together a gallimaufry of random observations. A salmagundi of insights, as it were, or an Eton mess of ironic inversions, a mélange of right wing virtue signaling, a potpourri of punditry. And see how you like it. This is the sort of moment …
As Smoke Ascends to Gods Who Aren’t There
Introduction: In Jonah Goldberg's most recent G-File, he has extended rumination on the distinctions between faith and belief. It was a thought-provoking piece, and so here are some thoughts on apologetics ...
The Death Cult of Expressive Individualism
Introduction: The battle of our time is the war between those who demand their right to be creators, over against those who seek to defend their right to be creatures. Everything comes down to that simple division. The Two Ways: A corollary of the first position—that we must be untrammeled creators, that we must be …
Church and Kingdom, Cathedral and Town
Sermon Video Introduction: Remember that the Spirit moves throughout the earth, converting and restoring individuals, fashioning them into saints, into believers. As His fruit is manifested in ...
America’s Stony Heart
Introduction: Hardness of heart is a sophomoric sin. And by saying this, I am saying that hardness of heart knows how to argue in the direction of what seems to be its own interests. Those arguments ...
Would There Have Been Civil Government Without the Fall?
Correction: There is an error in the sentence below, which I have struck from the essay: "Rutherford distinguishes “power of government and power of government by magistracy” (Q2, emphasis mine). ...