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April 2015

April 22, 2015

I am Somewhat for the Trees: Tolkien and Christian Conservation

Tolkien's Lord of the Rings sums up my view about rampant industrialization and the despoiling of...

April 21, 2015

Hoping Atheists (Or at Least Anti-Theists) Do Not Kill Us This Time

Atheistic regimes killed millions in the last century. Nobody denies this fact, though some deny...

April 20, 2015

Love Demands Authenticity

Inauthenticity is the unpardonable sin of American college culture. Do as you will as long...

April 19, 2015

Saintly Science

How often do you get to hear from an inventive surgeon, a compassionate pastor, and...

April 18, 2015

Smother Love or Mother Love

"I will love you no matter what" is a great Christian truth. God will love...

April 17, 2015

Winning!

War analogies can go too far. However great the rivalry between the righteous Packers and...

April 16, 2015

Gloriously Joyful Today!

This is the day that the LORD has made;let us rejoice and be glad in it. We...

April 15, 2015

After Surviving Titanic: What should you do?

Avoid working for the White Star Line and signing up for the maiden voyage...

April 14, 2015

Four Things to Do if You Wake Up on RMS Titanic

If despite your best efforts you wake up one morning to discover you are on...

April 13, 2015

Four Signs You Signed on to RMS Titanic

Tomorrow marks the anniversary of the sinking of the great liner RMS Titanic. We have...

April 12, 2015

Easter (Again)

Easter is here . . .again. An advantage to being a member of the Orthodox...

April 11, 2015

The Limits to Ignoring Reality: God and the Cosmos

You can go a long time and go very far believing falsehoods and ignoring reality,...

April 10, 2015

Walter Scott: What is to be done?

Walter Scott is dead. This is not just an individual evil, but part of a...

April 09, 2015

On Our Next Leader: Seven Characteristics for Our President

2016 will come as certainly as the sun rising and having a Presidential election in...

April 08, 2015

An Appreciation of Jane Kenyon on First Reading

Train up your children in the way they should go and when they are older...

April 07, 2015

Did America become a Christian nation in the Fifties?

My newsfeed has two kinds of common historically inaccurate stories. Members of my own Faith...

April 06, 2015

Why I am not a Nihilist: First Thoughts

I want the truth even if the truth hurts. Oedipus was told by the prophet...

April 05, 2015

He is Risen Anyway (Bad Easter becomes Good Easter)

We are all bad before Easter. We do what we wish we did not do....

April 04, 2015

Worrying about the Dead Guy (Bad Easter Part VII)

Jesus was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The guarantee...

April 03, 2015

Selling Jesus for Money (Bad Easter Part VI)

Judas did the great evil for a petty payoff. Every filmmaker and every novelist try...

April 02, 2015

I am not worthy! (Bad Easter V)

There is great pride in false humility and one way to have a bad Easter...

April 01, 2015

Lazarus Is Alive, Let’s Kill Him! (Bad Easter Part IV)

Occasionally I meet someone who hates Christianity who also wants to see a miracle and usually...

March 2015

March 31, 2015

Irritated with Ferguson and Nazareth (Bad Easter Part III)

Prejudice is not new to humans, no sin is. Our racial prejudice in America is...

March 30, 2015

Grifters in the Temple (Bad Easter Part II)

Christianity attracts grifters like a church picnic in Houston attracts mosquitos. Like mosquitos, the church...

March 29, 2015

Irritated by Palm Sunday (Bad Easter Part I)

Easter celebrates the conquest of death by Life.* This is the day we remember that...

March 28, 2015

Review of “Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory”: Nobody Expects Jerry Walls

Jerry Walls is always doing or saying something unexpected. In some, this is a mere...

March 27, 2015

A Modern Saint on Religion and Science

Brooklyn, yes Brooklyn, has a saint and he wrote on religion and science. For those...

March 26, 2015

Do we want an adventure?

Bilbo Baggins almost passed on adventure. Who could blame him? Gandalf was excellent at fireworks,...

March 25, 2015

Is the PCUSA still Christian?

Given the recent decision to bless vice, the status of the Presbyterian Church USA is...

March 24, 2015

Temar Boggs and Chris Garcia: Well Done Young Men

Temar Boggs and Chris Garcia saw a girl being abducted by a stranger. Boggs says...