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February 2017

February 25, 2017

Theological Foundations of the Family: Priestly Fatherhood

Christian family-based religious life is so dissimilar to the practices of biblical patriarchs there are...

February 14, 2017

Masculinity and the Church (I am interviewed by Radio Free Christendom)

I am pleased to present a podcast of Radio Free Christendom in which I...

February 07, 2017

Deconstructing Feminized Fatherhood

We must live our lives in a larger structure of meaning than we can build...

February 02, 2017

Real Men Don’t Virtue Signal

Virtue signaling is the new self-righteousness. And self-righteousness is for sissies. Every once in a...

January 2017

January 17, 2017

Androphobia Is a Real Thing: And Many Pastors Suffer From It

If you're afraid of your plumber you've got a real problem. Now I'm assuming your...

December 2016

December 14, 2016

Why Western Christianity is Effeminate, Part 1

I'm in the midst of a flurry of last minute edits to my manuscript, Man...

December 07, 2016

Families: No Room in the Church-Inn

I just finished reading a book that I've been commissioned to review for Touchstone Magazine....

November 2016

November 15, 2016

Fish Stories: Is Fiction Just a Well-told Lie?

One of my favorite films--definitely in the top 5--is Tim Burton's, Big Fish. The story...

November 12, 2016

Jack, the Giant, and the Indigestible Bean

A modern fable about love and work. by C. R. Wiley There were giants in...

November 08, 2016

Being a Pastor on Election Day

If you follow this blog you can probably guess my politics. But you might be...

November 03, 2016

Children and Household Religion

Years ago a Haitian pastor asked me, "Why do white people hate children?" When I...

November 01, 2016

Tolkien’s Leaf by Niggle: What Will Become of Our Work?

Leaf by Niggle is a personal favorite. It's right up there with Smith of Wootton...

October 2016

October 27, 2016

Put Your Kids to Work, Go Ahead, They’ll Thank You for It

Some people apparently believe that children are better off when they're useless. I got a...

October 25, 2016

Is Horror Fiction Immoral?

Last evening I was in attendance for a reading at a local library by contributors...

October 20, 2016

What ARE Children For?

I continue my reflections on the New Testament household codes today with a subject you...

October 18, 2016

Story-telling and Sovereignty

When my daughter was a little girl she didn't like stories with bad-guys in them....

October 06, 2016

New Testament Household Codes and the Problem of Slavery

Slavery is an ignominious fact of history. Historically it was also well-nigh universal. I know you've...

September 2016

September 22, 2016

Focus! (Some changes coming to this blog.)

Art makes its demands. Anyone who believes it is merely a matter of self-expression hasn't...

September 19, 2016

What Inside Out Managed to Leave Out

Pixar seems to have found that little spot behind the collective ear that we like...

September 09, 2016

How to Tell a Story Like an Inkling

Chapter One: Kick the Allegory Habit (Editorial note: this puts my last four posts on...

September 02, 2016

Tales of the Sublime: They aren’t Safe, but They Can be Good

G. K. Chesterton once spoke of nature as our "little sister" and C. S. Lewis...

August 2016

August 31, 2016

How to Tell a Meaningful Story without Preaching It

The movie mogul Sam Goldwyn once said, "If you want to send a message, use...

August 29, 2016

How to Tell a Story: a Primer for Preachers

(Note: this is the first in a series of forays on the subject of preachers...

July 2016

July 19, 2016

So You Want to Be Famous?

I have a book on the shelf that I really should to return to the...

July 14, 2016

Darwin and the Gnostics

Seemingly incompatible doctrines can actually reinforce each other. I'm thinking of Darwinism and gnosticism here....

July 12, 2016

If There Is No God, Then Harrison Bergeron Must Die!

Well, my daughter scored 720 on the math portion of the SAT. Not too shabby...

June 2016

June 30, 2016

I Miss the Religious But Not Spiritual

I assume you've endured, as I have, that self-congratulatory nostrum of the Authentic: "I'm spiritual...

June 28, 2016

Is the Scientific Method a Form of Mental Illness?

I had thought of naming this post: Science and the Quotidian Mind, but I was...

June 17, 2016

The Tyranny of Pity Manipulation

It was the summer of 1990 or thereabouts. I was fresh out of seminary and...

June 10, 2016

Serfdom Is Freedom!

When smart people get behind a bad idea you should wonder if you're being scammed....