Bearing God's Image Thoroughly
Originally Published Here on Truthwire Politicians like to talk big. We all know the equation of a politician’s speech: one part hypocrisy, one part lie, and one part exaggeration that sometimes technically true. The politician who actually tries to live
A good book (with some flaws) Death Mask follows The Long Moonlight (reviewed here). Xerdes the thief is now a fugitive, on the run from the criminal empires he brought to a fever pitch, and his path lies across a vicious, potentially supernatural
Allegory versus application The question of who Tom Bombadil is has puzzled Tolkien’s readers ever since he came out. Maiar? Valar? Man? Elf? Something else? He seems to possess certain traits which imply or exclude each of these, and the
Third Way theology is abdication, cowardice, and dereliction of duty. The pretension of ‘third way’ theology is that it joins neither side and charts a distinctively Christian course. The reality is that it acts as an excuse to stand out
Christians sometimes end up guarding God’s foes…. Winger hits one nail on the head here. Churches and evangelists which refuse to address the difficult issues are betraying the witness they proffer. If a man has an idol (which is what
A Tale of Three Values “Truth, justice, and the American way,” runs the classic Superman slogan. Even I know that, with next to no comic book exposure and never having watched one of the Superman movies (I have seen some
What can you glean from face value? The point of this short consideration is not to answer the material it considers, at least not to the point of refutation. The goal of this assessment is to 1) establish why I
Originally Published Here on Truthwire What’s the value of fiscal conservatism? Tennessee has pride in its balanced budget, pride that politicians like my current state senator, Jack Johnson, love to trade on. We have also many small business owners, entrepreneurs
Originally Published Here I neither celebrate Halloween nor condemn it. However, for those who (understandably) want to replace it with Reformation Day, the challenge isn’t just to replace it; the challenge is to outdo it. Less than this, and Reformation
Read Part I here. Judge Just Judge Just succeeds Judge Pragmatic and brings what he calls a ‘metaphysical’ approach. He holds the work of judging to be ultimately a moral endeavor, a work of conforming to “our moral heritage” (Delaney