I linked to a picture of the Palouse wheat fields yesterday. Here is a pic taken by a friend, with the wheat the color it is now (HT: Rob Sentz). That’s still a lot of bread.
That’s a Lot of Bread
As I continue to labor manfully away with my machete in the jungles of foodism, a former student has written me a thoughtful set of questions that I thought would be good to address here. First, he agrees that idols need to be rejected, period. “So I agree with the necessity in honoring God as …
The Whole Fairy Ring
It has been a spell since I have written much on food issues, but it has never been far from my mind. And then the brief post yesterday reminded how important the whole issue is. The world is full of friendly rivalries, and when they get unfriendly in any serious way, most people observing can …
A Small Can of Corn
Come now certain pesky scientists who have shown that organic food isn’t any more nutritional than the kind that has had the bugs sprayed off (HT: Joe Rigney). But all is not lost. We can still feel superior, which is the thing we are fundamentally hungry for. Organic food production is much better on the …
Evil Skews Everything
Sorry for the category this is under. Closest I have. In the course of our discussions of Medicare, and inconsistent Christian use of the same, I made a passing reference to Medicare use by “hobbyist” midwives. Discussion on this point rapidly developed into its very own sideshow, deteriorating rapidly from the point about government aid …
Watermelon Green
In the previous post on stewardship, one commenter asked a reasonable question. Why is it that I consistently use green as a term of contempt? And when do I, if ever, speak of the genuine demands of biblical stewardship in the environment? Consider this as a first pass in attempting to answer that question. First, …
Their Frenzies and Crusades
One area of secular blindness (one of many) is their inability to see how religious they are being. Having defined religion quite narrowly as church buildings and altars, they are utterly incapable of seeing the all-pervasive and quite religious nature of their frenzies and crusades. The problem with invisible religions like this is that one …
In Like a Lion, Out Like a Bear
I would take a photo out my window of the snow storm that is pounding us here, but enemies of the gospel of global cooling would think I had photoshopped it. This is a crisis. We clearly need to hand over unlimited power now to government bureaucrats and regulators, not to mention faceless international functionaries, …
Boy Howdy
I put my truck in 4-wheel drive this morning to help me get to work . . . in March. Late last week, I was assuming that we were dealing with a spring snow, the kind of thing we have to put up with in Idaho from time to time. But no, this is the …
The Cow With Some Evangelistic Liturature
We arrived in Oxford yesterday, and appear to have brought some Idaho winter with us. It was snowing again here this morning, which is apparently somewhat remarkable here. And of course, whenever it snows in some remarkable fashion, in any kind of proximity to me, I rise to say a few words on the important …