Bearing God's Image Thoroughly
By breaking the family If you want to find the root of the West’s instability, it lies in the constant failure of the righteous as a whole to defend the family. Chesterton said of the family that it “may fairly
On the reaction to Rep. Massie’s second marriage I’m a writer. I’m also a reader. More, I read history, contemporary and otherwise. The sum of this is: give me facts about a person, and I can come up with some ugly explanations.
Not nearly as much as we’d like…. I frankly don’t believe I have electronic privacy. The government could look at anything with a potential internet connection and power. The program providers, in many cases, could do the same. Any camera
Writing serves a purpose beyond communication…. Writing serves a purpose beyond communication for me. I have a lot of ideas, many of them correct, some of them… not so much. That’s the standard human state, and I have no objections
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