The Backdrop of Understanding is Always the Eye of Faith: "Faith is so quick a grace that it presents things past, things above and things to come—all in a moment, so quick, is this eagle-eye ...
The Sinkhole of Secularism
The Fighting Moderates, aka the Pink-Pilled
Introduction: I have from time to time noticed a certain measure of exasperation with me. I am not here speaking about the exasperation of the progressives on the left because that can be hard ...
That Time Virginia Flogged a Baptist
Introduction: This is a picture of the flogging of Obadiah Holmes in Massachusetts, who was flogged for holding unauthorized worship services. Let us even stipulate that Obadiah was a handful, and still our response is one of disapprobation. And the same kind of thing happened down in Virginia a century later. So yes, there was …
The Shameless v. the Unashamed
Introduction: We are living in remarkable times. Throughout the Western world, there is a huge fault line, now clearly manifest, that separates the transgressives from the normals. This fault line ...
That Acrid Taste of Damnation
Introduction: There was a time, back in the olden times, when the aftermath of a horrific event like a school shooting was crowded with politicians making dubious policy pronouncements about ...
Rival Flag, Rival Nation
Introduction: So one of the things we need to do, if you don't mind my saying so, is figure out what the heck is going on. It would seem to matter, would it not? I have written extensively ...
Power, Escape, Dominion
Introduction: I once learned a very useful metric from the late Gary North, one that describes virtually every circumstance in which religion interacts with culture. Putting it in a shoebox, there ...
This Carnival of Claptrap
Introduction: We really need to do a better job viewing the game film. And by "game film" I am referring to last three centuries or so, going back to the birth of Rousseau, an mal-auspicious ...
Seven Theses on Theocratic Libertarianism
A Way Important Preamble: An important debate is occurring among those Christians who have noticed that our culture has come untethered, and has floated off like a child's lost carnival balloon. ...
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Biden Their Time
Introduction: Every so often, it is needful to step back a few paces and look at the whole chess board from another angle. Political junkies can be like cats chasing the laser dot, and can be overwhelmed ...
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