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May 2015

May 30, 2015

Joan Died Triumphant

My daughter played "Joan of Arc" in the play Triumphant this weekend and I saw again why...

May 29, 2015

The Shield Failed, the City Endures

Today the shield of the West failed and we are still paying the price. When...

May 27, 2015

Celebrity Christianity Must Die

The Greeks had a wise saying: "Call no man happy until he is dead." Celebrity...

May 26, 2015

A Modest Proposal Concerning Pronouns

Evidently, a privilege helping me along life's way has been my access of the pronoun...

May 25, 2015

Memorial Day and the Real World

Cartoon movies lose allure when I look at a picture of my dad with my...

May 24, 2015

Keep Calm, Be Constantinian

Christians need to stop reading the news and thinking doom is coming tomorrow. Doom might...

May 23, 2015

Constantine not Benedict?

Constantine wanted a strong, united Roman Empire and at that time as did every other...

May 22, 2015

The Constantine Strategy

Forget retreat. Triumphalism is two centuries ago. The time has come to change our strategic...

May 21, 2015

Waiting for Constantine

Today is the feast of Constantine: one of those rare heroes that certain people love...

May 20, 2015

Ida: An Idea Film

If a film is good, does it cease to be "faith based?" That is my...

May 19, 2015

Humility: Who doesn’t need it? How to get it?

A problem with "self-esteem" is that it makes it hard to be humble. How can...

May 18, 2015

The Most Qualified By Far: On Clinton and Qualifications

Read about Clinton and her run for the White House and phrases like "most qualified"...

May 17, 2015

Mercy on His Soul – Judgment on His Body

Americans fantasize that we live in an nonjudgmental age or at the very least we...

May 16, 2015

The Most Common Graduation Lie

Some graduation somewhere always features some speaker who tells the graduates that they are a...

May 15, 2015

A Lie They Will Tell You At Commencement

I have been to more than my share of graduations . . . both as...

May 14, 2015

Caesar Isn’t Even That Important

Thank God none of my children is likely to become President of the United States....

May 13, 2015

Unfit for Office, Secretary Clinton

Abraham Lincoln helped my family secede from Virginia when Virginia seceded from the Union. West...

May 11, 2015

I never told you: You were my hero.

My cousin J. Paul Mace died a few weeks ago and I never told him...

May 10, 2015

I like Mother’s Day

I know it is a weird holiday . . . not quite real . ....

May 09, 2015

Applying the Golden Rule to my Islamic Neighbor

Nobody should die for being offensive and the fact that people want to kill Americans...

May 05, 2015

A Maddening Itch

Yesterday Houston was so like Los Angeles that I sat without shoes with Dad on...

May 03, 2015

Passive Aggressive Dissent: It’s a Trap

I know how to hold any view in Evangelical churches and remain in good standing. This...

May 02, 2015

Hey Mom: thanks for teaching me about Hell!

I am thankful that my mother taught me about all of reality. She never pretended...

April 2015

April 30, 2015

Do Not Give the Four Spiritual Laws to an Idea!

Nobody was ever damned simply by hearing an idea. This kind of magical thinking is...

April 29, 2015

Don’t Just Trust Theists: Five Characteristics of Regimes That Will Go Bad

History shows that there has never been an atheist# regime that was not horrific. There...

April 28, 2015

Anti-Theists are Sure They Will Not Kill You This Time

Anti-theists are sending Christians to labor camps in China and killing us in North Korea,...

April 26, 2015

He Saw Hitler: Find God’s Man in Odd Places and Listen

Human history would be different if humans learned to find the people that know what...

April 25, 2015

Ten Jolly Things About Now

I am flying to Rivendell and that is a wonderful thing to write. As Christians...

April 24, 2015

Wagner: He is so wrong and so beautiful

I think beauty is important and that too often Americans, particularly American Christians, do not...

April 23, 2015

Live Art: Go Forth and Assemble!

A wonderful thing about Christianity is that we are forbidden to stay in caves of...