Just got back in town from a marriage conference in Lynchburg, Virginia, and spent the day yesterday trying to shovel things off my desk. Right before we left, a discussion arose on worldmagblog.com about the issue of Credenda we published last year in which we argued for “owning the curse” of homosexual marriage. In the …
Getting Up To Speed
For anyone who needs to get up to speed on the latest scuffling, some of the backstory for the article in World can be found on this blog in the Archives, under General Ruminations, around the time of August 2004. I am not saying that you do need to get up to speed, but if …
Schindlers” List
Terri Schiavo’s parents, the Schindlers, are continuing their desperate fight to save their daughter’s life. This is a current Schindlers’ List, but there is only one name on it. As the vigil and the appeals continue, here are just a few more scattered observations. First, as Thomas Sowell observed, this whole fiasco shows exactly how …
Terri Schiavo
As we speak, by order of the court, Terri Schiavo is being starved to death in Florida. But there are other victims, among them the godly use of words. When men want to obscure their lusts, or hide their greed, they always create a fog of words. Obscure, deny, lie, evade, change, slice, spin, and …
Intolerista, Baby
Dr. James Dobson is ticking off all the right people again. For the last two nights, I have watched (on national news!) the controversy between Dobson and SpongeBob SquarePants unfold. Well, actually, the controversy is not unfolding there, it is simply being perpetuated from one monomanaical vantage point. Those who want to find out the …
Bad At Dodgeball
A goodish bit of indignation has been expressed by the Intoleristas over the apropos application of the word Intolerista. Remember when we were kids and used to play dodgeball with those red, rubber school balls? And there was always that kid who thought that getting hit by a ball constituted a foul and an outrage, …
Pride and Prejudice
Inspired by Peter Leithart’s new (and very fine) book, Miniatures and Morals, I recently began reading through Jane Austen. I had read a few of them many years ago, and am not quite sure which ones. So this time I started with Sense and Sensibility, which was fun, and then on to Pride and Prejudice, …
Bush as False Teacher
After my post yesterday on the Bush/Kerry thing, here are just a couple of follow-up comments. The first is to note Bush’s qualified support for same-sex civil unions. He now says that such a decision should be up to the states. But anyone who does not see this as a wedge issue is just kidding …
Bush and Kerry
So I hear there is an election in a few days. If you all can bear with some amateur punditry, I think that Bush is going to take it, walking away. Such a result would be satisfactory in some respects, but extremely threatening in others. I am not going to vote for the president, and, …
Robert E. Lee and Honest History
Ethical relativists believe in the relativism of truth and morality. They do not, however, believe in the relativism of power. They either have it, or they don’t. And if they do not, they know what direction they want to go. We don’t need a print-out of their agenda to know what is on it. Part …