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January 2017

January 31, 2017

The Family that Stays Together Can Pray Together

That little reversal in the title of this post is intended to shake you out...

January 26, 2017

Feminism, the Women’s March, and Aesthetics

The other day I stumbled across a post by a fellow Patheos blogger entitled, The...

December 2016

December 21, 2016

The Church Impotent–the transitional paragraph

My last post noted that I'm working my way through Leon Podle's fine book, The...

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 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...

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 14, 2016

Slavery and You: Why You’re Not as Free as You Think

Laws often trail practices, not the other way around. In most slave-keeping societies the law...

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 12, 2016

The Economics of Love

The words love and economy rarely find their ways into the same sentence. Economics has been called the dismal science but...

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...

July 07, 2016

Just What IS Science Good For Anyway?

Last week I created a little dust up with this provocative post. I knew what...

July 05, 2016

The Ministry of Self-Defense

I'm not much of a martyr. I suffer from other complexes, I suppose, but the...

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 24, 2016

Brexit and The Great Homogenizator

The Great Homogenizator took a punch to the face yesterday. Whether other blows will follow...

June 22, 2016

Poverty is Big Business

Watching Poverty, Inc. made me angry like I've not been in a long time. It's...

June 17, 2016

The Tyranny of Pity Manipulation

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

June 08, 2016

Is Blogging Like Ambulance Chasing?

You may not be familiar with the idiom, but an "ambulance chaser" is someone who...

June 06, 2016

Gravitas: How to Gain Weight and Keep It On.

I received a note recently with a question about something I wrote on the subject...

May 2016

May 25, 2016

Are Men Obsolete? (Short answer, no.)

Are men obsolete? In her book, The End of Men and the Rise of Women,...

May 11, 2016

Is Multiculturalism a Scam?

I concede that many enthusiasts for multiculturalism mean well, I know that was the case...

May 09, 2016

Globalists Versus the Rest of Us

People who claim to be citizens of the world have always impressed me as purchasing...

May 06, 2016

On Acquiring a Wife

A wife these days is considered little more than a recreational partner. You can see...

May 04, 2016

Why Gender-Egalitarians Hate Natural Household Political Economy

When the choices you're given don't answer your question you know the people giving you...

May 02, 2016

Thinking about Sex

Sexual desire is a swamp. There's no firm ground to stand on in psychology, biochemistry...

April 2016

April 29, 2016

The Anthony Option

The time may be near when we can greet a new Anthony as a deliverer--an...

April 27, 2016

Writing Good Character

I've had a small measure of success writing fiction for young adults. What I mean...