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October 2015

October 12, 2015

President Obama is Blowing It in Syria

A basic mistake is that if something is like something else, then we should treat...

October 11, 2015

We are not Sims: We are Free

When I was younger, I loved playing "simulation" games. You could pretend to build an...

October 10, 2015

The Hollow Men Online

We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!...

October 09, 2015

LOL: Our Inflated Sense of Importance

Evidently the House is in chaos, because the GOP cannot, yet, pick a speaker. There...

October 08, 2015

Time for Jeb! to Go

Jeb Bush is a decent man, a conservative man, and the wrong man. Mr. Bush...

October 07, 2015

On Avoiding Death Traps

Isn't it time we did something about a major killer of Americans? If you filled...

October 06, 2015

Sex isn’t Necessary for Happiness

Anybody who has single friends, older friends, or friends who have taken a vow of...

October 05, 2015

Thank God

"Isn't God narcissistic? If I don't praise Him, I go to Hell." This is a...

October 04, 2015

God help us, but we must say, “Yes!”

If a gunman invades my workplace and asks the Christians to stand, then I hope...

October 03, 2015

The Boorish Mr. Biden

Joe Biden picked the week Christians were killed in America for being Christian to declare...

October 03, 2015

Liberty and Law and Gun Control

Increase law and you decrease liberty. We sometimes choose liberty with a bit of chaos...

October 02, 2015

Shameless

Common decency is not a great virtue, but is good to have around in community....

October 01, 2015

I Give Up: History Wins

History always wins and those who stand against the dialectical truth that comes from the...

September 2015

September 30, 2015

Nepotism and the Rise of Unmarried Clergy

In dealing with the "blood moon" debacle, I noticed how often one generation in a...

September 29, 2015

What if you are wrong? (On the Second Coming and Theological Mistakes)

Long ago a Reynolds thought that Jesus would probably come in 1843*. He was wrong,...

September 28, 2015

Two Johns: Hagee and Steinbeck

America is good at producing original personalities and at least two of them are named...

September 27, 2015

On Blood Moon Prophets and Memory

There will be an interesting astronomical phenomena tonight and some Christians have gone quite mad....

September 26, 2015

The Blood Moon: Jesus is Coming Soon

I will see Jesus soon. He (almost) certainly will return for me in the next...

September 25, 2015

Avoid the Weird: Why Conservatives Should Stay as Mainstream as Possible

Once I went to a Christian event with a friend and realized: "We are weird...

September 24, 2015

The Muppets: A Show Not Bad Enough

Watching the première of The Muppets would have been boring if it had not become...

September 23, 2015

Keeping My Eyes to Myself

Nobody looks at The David and thinks: "I should buy that and take it home...

September 22, 2015

Three Trends to Love

So the news is bad and for the Christians of the Middle East, their world...

September 21, 2015

Stupid Statements and Dying Christians: which matters most?

Today in Church we learned that the oldest Christian diocese in the world is in serious...

September 20, 2015

Saint Eustace: what do we want?

Any of us can be great. Holiness requires no IQ test, wealth, or even victory....

September 19, 2015

Happy Leaders: A Clue for Leadership

Picking a President is hard, but at least our vote does not count so much....

September 18, 2015

Carly Cannot Win

Carly Fiorina is Mitt Romney without the heart. That is not my opinion, I like...

September 17, 2015

Better to Die than to Tell a Lie

My Dad has, as far as I know, never told a lie. He is...

September 16, 2015

Live Debate Blog

The second debate has begun and the candidates introduce themselves. Just as a sophomore movie...

September 16, 2015

Establishment Republicans and Trump

Establishment Republicans are on the ropes: Donald Trump and Ben Carson are the leading Republican...

September 15, 2015

A Pearl Not Worth Anything

Jesus told a story about a man who found a pearl of great price and...