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July 2015

July 09, 2015

Vanity of Vanities

Gym slogans are prose written by devils to tempt me to cynicism. These are the...

July 08, 2015

You Still Cannot Be Moral Without God

This post is part of a feature from Patheos called Head to Head. This week,...

July 07, 2015

American Anti-Intellectualism and the Theological Left

When I was a boy, the temptation to join the theological left was based on...

July 06, 2015

God and American Government: People Who May Exist Should Change Their Minds

Evangelicals love to be told how terrible they are. If you lash them, they will...

July 05, 2015

Last Acts: Serve Regardless like Elizabeth Romanov

Show me a Christian who does good only to do well in the things of...

July 03, 2015

Dear Doctor: Is is not Ought

This post is part of a feature from Patheos called Head to Head.This week, I'm...

July 02, 2015

My Life Long Pal: Brother Love

My brother and I were close enough, anti-Soviet enough, and 1980's enough to weep when...

July 01, 2015

Just Quit? No. We don’t panic.

One of my all-time favorite television programs was Dad's Army. This was the story of the aging...

June 2015

June 30, 2015

The Heart of the Problem: A Society that Wants More

Americans have always struggled with limits. Even our Victorian era was more expansive than the...

June 28, 2015

Thank You Sir

Taking a plane trip is wonderful because I always meet someone new. On the day...

June 27, 2015

In Which I Have Nothing Much To Say about Wiz Khalifa . . . Yet.

Much of pop culture is horrible, but then much of pop culture has always been...

June 21, 2015

When Your Anniversary is on Father’s Day

Today is my twenty-ninth wedding anniversary and it also happens to be Father's Day. Since...

June 20, 2015

Some Kids are OK

There is nothing that irritates me more than the fatuous belief that the "kids are...

June 19, 2015

Six Things I Hate Because God Hates Them

God helping me, there are six things I hate following the Lord's example and there...

June 18, 2015

No Muggles- Nobody Left Behind (On How Harry Potter Got Me to Wheatstone This Summer) Part III/III

Mr. Weasley is more important than you might think if you read the Harry Potter series without...

June 17, 2015

Find Good Friends and Stick It Out OR How Harry Potter got me to Wheatstone this Summer (Part II/III)

The Harry Potter books helped create my summer vacation at Wheatstone Academy this summer. Harry Potter is a...

June 16, 2015

No Umbridge, OR “How Potter taught me to go to Wheatstone this Summer” (Part I/III)

The Harry Potter books are better than anyone other than the insightful John Granger believes....

June 13, 2015

Falling When You Never Stood Up

I have never posted a picture of a cute cat, but I shall do so...

June 12, 2015

Fight, Pray, Fight, Pray, Build Culture: A Plan

What should we do in difficult times? Today marks the celebration of a man with...

June 11, 2015

As Good As You: Redemption is Possible… Even for Me.

I have not lived as good a life as Hope. Generally, with far less going...

June 10, 2015

What about the “least” of us? On the janitor. . .

My dad and mom did a lot right, but one of the best things they...

June 09, 2015

What Jane Didn’t Tell Rochester

Jane Eyre is a manual for Christian romance and anybody in love should read it. The...

June 07, 2015

Losing and then Winning: Marcellinus

Failure on a big stage is failure indeed just as triumph is true worldly triumph...

June 06, 2015

It is More Important to Be Beautiful on the Inside

Raising daughters is easy, they grow up. Tomorrow is the birthday of my first daughter...

June 05, 2015

I Judge Your Celebration

An American may never read the Bible, but he knows that Jesus said: Judge not,...

June 04, 2015

In which I thank Bronte and Montgomery for My Love Life

Romance? I love romance. When I am not careful, I am in love with the mere...

June 03, 2015

Get Real Prophets

Only the open narcissist admits that he will not listen to criticism.. Interview anyone for...

June 02, 2015

Don’t Get Overwhelmed

Reading the news can be discouraging if you care about reality. You do not need...

June 01, 2015

Pentecostal Power

I have seen miracles and experienced a few of my own. I have also known...

May 2015

May 31, 2015

Five Signs A Christian Celebrity Isn’t

A bad feature of celebrity culture is the tendency of smaller groups to develop celebrities...