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January 2016

January 21, 2016

Why Evangelical Gender-Egalitarians are Statists

An ethic is the inner structure of a polity. Sacramental Theology and Covenant Theology are...

January 20, 2016

Are Humans Obsolete?

"Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind." Orange Catholic...

January 18, 2016

Life After the Welfare State

"This too shall pass." The Sufi poets A few years back Francis Fukuyama published a book...

January 15, 2016

Nominalism and the Law of Unintended Consequences

I like antibiotics and air-conditioning, and I'd like to keep them. Many knowledgable people agree...

January 14, 2016

Upcoming Film Review: The Finest Hours–to be posted on 1/22

I've been invited to screen another film, Disney's, The Finest Hours. Here's the trailer-- I'll...

January 13, 2016

Is Evangelicalism a Secularizing Force?

I've thought long and hard about secularism and as I've done so I've come to...

January 11, 2016

An Introduction to Productive Property

Most people classify themselves as middle-class. This is interesting for at least a couple of...

January 08, 2016

The Revenant Reviewed

"O God, to whom vengeance belongeth, show thyself!" Psalm 94:1 I know a man who...

January 07, 2016

Splash page for a new comic of mine…

A splash page introduces a story. Here's a the pencil for the splash...yet to be...

January 06, 2016

Robert Crumb’s Book of Genesis, Part 4 (and last, at last)

Does Robert Crumb hate you? I've used the word hate pretty liberally throughout my review....

January 04, 2016

Robert Crumb’s Book of Genesis, Part 3

I just ordered R. Crumb's Heroes of Blues, Jazz, and Country . The reason I did...

January 01, 2016

Robert Crumb’s Book of Genesis, Part 2

Three or four years back I queried Books and Culture about writing a review of...

December 2015

December 30, 2015

Robert Crumb’s Book of Genesis, Part 1

I begin with a confession: I am not a fan of Robert Crumb. But from...

December 29, 2015

Tribute to Howard Finster & Forthcoming Review of R. Crumb’s, The Book of Genesis

I just finished a tribute to Reverend Howard Finster this morning and thought I'd share...

December 28, 2015

No More Portable Jesus.

It can take years of study for a fish to see water. It did for...

December 26, 2015

How the West Really Lost God: A New Theory of Secularization

We can hope that Western civilization is in the early stages of awakening from a...

December 23, 2015

Atheists Don’t Have No Songs

If someone told me a story about an old industrial town that defended its beautiful...

December 21, 2015

I’m Happy. Should I Feel Guilty About That?

I share good news with family and friends less often than I used to. I've lost...

December 18, 2015

Correction: it’s hats for women that Christianity and Islam share in common.

A Christian woman, teaching at an evangelical college, has unintentionally stirred controversy by donning the...

December 16, 2015

Saving Nature from the Hippies

So I’m a little embarrassed to admit it, but I like granola. But why should...

December 14, 2015

Are Protestants Human? (And what that has to do with my pulpit.)

Animals, I assume, are literalists. Metaphors, analogies: animals just don't get them. I tried a...

December 11, 2015

The Sky Hook and the Virgin Birth

If you're the sort of person who believes that the universe is hermetically sealed, with...

December 09, 2015

The Bombadil Option

“Old Tom Bombadil is a merry fellow, Bright blue his jacket is, and his boots...

December 07, 2015

I Used to Think I Could Walk on Water

I never pulled it off. When Jesus did it it wasn't just a wonder; it...

December 04, 2015

Dying Where You’re Planted

Grudgingly, I am coming to accept that you don’t choose the place; the place chooses...

December 03, 2015

Shop Class as Soulcraft & Recovering the Yeoman Aristocracy

I'm not a fan of Ask This Old House, the spin-off of the PBS home...

December 02, 2015

C. S. Lewis, H. P. Lovecraft, and the Problem of Alien Worlds

Recently some astronomers discovered two earth-sized planets orbiting Kepler-20, a star roughly 1,000 light years...

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