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February 2018

February 06, 2018

Why Are Young People Turning to Socialism?

It's pretty simple to explain the turn to Socialism among the young. It's fear.

November 2017

November 02, 2017

Sloth and the Sexual Revolution

Sloth is the sin of the hopeless.

October 2017

October 17, 2017

The Big Short: A Little Reminder

This review was originally published at Patheos February 1, 2016. A year and a half...

September 2017

September 15, 2017

How to Be a Gracious Pariah

Most of the time it is impossible to know why someone stops talking to you....

April 2017

April 11, 2017

The Way of Men: Nietzsche or Aristotle?

When I was in graduate school (Harvard Divinity School) one of my professors put the...

March 2017

March 31, 2017

Honest Work in a Virtual World, Thoughts on Working with Your Hands

I learned how to frame when I was in seminary. What I mean by "frame"...

February 2017

February 28, 2017

Freedom: I don’t think it means what you think it means

One of the conceptual blocks I ran into as a young convert was the notion...

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 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 24, 2017

I Am Weary of the World-Weariness of the Unaccomplished

The best way to avoid disappointment is to not even try. Life is struggle. Jacob...

January 10, 2017

Why I Don’t Hit Girls

I have a little sister, and like many children who grow frustrated with tagalong siblings,...

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...

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 11, 2016

Was Jesus a Self-Promoter?

I've been working to reconcile myself to a reality I've been denying for years. What's...

October 04, 2016

Christian Humility and the Self-Promotion Problem

A little over a decade ago, when I first began writing fiction, a few of...

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 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 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 10, 2016

Serfdom Is Freedom!

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

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 20, 2016

The Narrative Thread I Followed in Mark 11:1-12:17

Last time I mentioned a "small signal" from Luke 11:11, "...it was already late." I...

May 13, 2016

How about a “Bombadil Option”?

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

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 02, 2016

Thinking about Sex

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