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March 2015

March 23, 2015

Finding Truth: A Review and Some Comments

Nancy Pearcey* makes the complicated so clear a reader can forget how insightful she has...

March 22, 2015

Dear Nate: Sinners Happy to Sin Welcome to Dinner, Not Welcome to Communion

Dear Nate, Both of us agree sin is bad. For Christians this is not, perhaps,...

March 21, 2015

Andy Jackson: Deserving of Dishonor

Andrew Jackson was a maniac, racist, and perpetrator of a lawless attempt at genocide. Andy...

March 20, 2015

Happy Birthday: On Friendship

Today is a friend's birthday and he has been, is, and will be a good...

March 19, 2015

The Worst Progressive Argument Ever?

I think the worst arguments are the ones where the response of the critic is...

March 18, 2015

Beware the GG! (The Blacklist Gets it Right)

More evil is done in our daily lives through trying to be good than trying...

March 17, 2015

Earth: Neither Size Nor Position Mattered

When it comes to Earth, science never showed prideful Christians that the size of our...

March 16, 2015

On Money: Neither For It Nor Against It

Christians do not have a love/hate relationship with money. Beware any Christian that spends a great deal...

March 15, 2015

On the Road to Boredom

Yesterday's subversive literature is revealing because we often long for the very society the book...

March 14, 2015

Loving Orcs: It’s Fantasy Not Reality

I remember seeing three black books with a red eye stamped on them in the...

March 13, 2015

Another Red Letter Day at the Bailey Building and Loan

Someday they will make a movie about a lad who dared to dream he would...

March 12, 2015

Not Angry: At Least Not For Long

Two types of equally sickening media appear before me daily: sugary sweet happy videos (often...

March 11, 2015

This Intense Passion

There are desires so intense that they can overwhelm us: this can be a great...

March 10, 2015

The Apple and the Tree: Generational Failure in Traditional Christianity

When finding out why there is an apple on the ground, it is generally best...

March 09, 2015

Forgive My Sins, But Healing is Good Too

Occasionally I meet someone who tells me that the problem of sin is a problem...

March 08, 2015

Ferguson Police: The Conscience of a Conservative Christian Soul

The police departments like the one in Ferguson are one of the great moral challenges...

March 07, 2015

How much do you trust your government?

How much do we trust our government? This is a practical question for a Christian...

March 06, 2015

“Have a (nearly) Cheerless Lent!” He said thoughtfully.

Recently someone said: "Happy Lent!" I paused and considered. Lent strikes me as a terrifically unhappy...

March 05, 2015

On “Person of Interest,” Nelson Eddy, and Jeanette MacDonald, and Other Related Pop Cultural Items

Person of Interest forgot what it was as a television show, and so is dying,...

March 04, 2015

Why I support Israel

I would support Israel if I were not a Christian, but given that I am a Christian,...

March 03, 2015

Letters to William: On God- He is Good, Even in the Old Testament (Part III)

Dear William, God, some people think is an odd sort of person, and this is...

March 02, 2015

On Breaking Fellowship: Heresy and Sin

Here is an obvious, and uncomfortable, fact: the New Testament writers were as likely to...

March 01, 2015

Rest In Peace: Why I Always Have Hope for the Dead

Someone once asked how I could pray that the soul of a person I know...

February 2015

February 28, 2015

Help me, Spock!

Only Kirk is left. Saturday nights I would endure the end of Lawrence Welk to...

February 27, 2015

It Can End Well

If you were Henry, everything started splendidly and ended badly. He was born King of...

February 26, 2015

On Hating IS and Loving People

I hate IS (the Islamic State): a true perversion of Islam, monotheism, and humanity. I...

February 25, 2015

The Case for Grace (Review of a Book by Lee Strobel)

The Case for Grace is the best book Lee Strobel has written and that is praising...

February 24, 2015

Facing Up to Christian History: the Good, the Bad, the Ugly

Christians have made a great deal of history. If you name Christ, we have to...

February 23, 2015

Prince Valiant (What fun he is!)

Feeling sad? There are two sure fire drugs in our household against sorrow: Sherlock Holmes...

February 22, 2015

Happy Birthday Hope

Today is Hope's birthday . . . not the virtue, which has been with us...