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Does America Have a Judeo-Christian Heritage?
Since I started getting active on Twitter in early 2024, I’ve come across many on the New Christian Right, or whatever we might be called, who are not fans of the phrase Judeo-Christian, to say the least. It upsets them because it seems to make Christianity a part of...
The Christian Nation and the Westphalian Nation-State
If you want to create some consternation among some “right thinking” people just use the phrase Christian nationalism, or God forbid, say you are a Christian nationalist. You’ll be branded as either a white supremacist by leftists, or a Theonomist by conservatives....
Christian Western Civilization Should Have Never Happened
From a merely human perspective Christian Western civilization shouldn’t have happened. The odds of a ragtag crew of manual laborers in a small corner of the Roman Empire eventually turning the world upside down, or should we say right side up, were as close to zero...
Articles on Theology
Deuteronomy 4: Theological Implications of God Rescuing His People from Slavery
In my last post I focused on some of the uninvented takeaways from this chapter, or why I think it couldn’t be made up. Briefly, if it was, the author was a liar, and the Bible is a worthless piece of trash. Not that I feel strongly about it or anything. You’ll...
Embrace The Suck! The Gravitational Pull of Sin
I apologize for the semi-vulgarity, but this has become something of a favorite phrase of mine of late. I guess it’s because life can so often seem so sucky to us. Things rarely go like we think we want them to, and even when they go like we think we want them to,...
Why I Love Hymns, And You Should, Too!
I’m one of a rare breed, those who love hymns, and will only go to a church where hymns are sung. When we were younger and moved to a new state (which has happened four times), we would go church hunting. A couple times with my wife and kids in tow we walked into a...
Articles on Explanatory Power
Early Sun’s ‘Goldilocks’ Rotation Rate May Be Why We’re Here: Nope, it’s God!
I love secularists! They make the Christian apologist's job so easy. For the last few hundred years of Western civilization, intellectuals and cultural elites have painted the inevitable ark of history as secularism. Full stop. As scientific knowledge increased...
Mommy, Mommy! Watch Me!
Human nature is one of the most powerful apologetics for the veracity of the Christian faith. What else can explain so well the glory and mess that is humanity, but that man was made perfect in God's image, a glorious creature capable of the most exquisite heights,...
Are You Saying There’s an Oak Tree in that Acorn?
Our family moved from Illinois (thank God!) to Florida in June of 2017. Talk about a contrast, one that doesn't have to be explained. We moved to the Tampa area, and the first thing I noticed is that oak trees and their moss are practically ubiquitous. They evoked in...
Articles on Culture
Billie Eilish: A Clueless Teenager the Secular World is Going All Lady Gaga Over
Until I read a thoughtful article about her a couple days ago at The Federalist, I had never heard of pop superstar Billie Eilish.
Voddie Baucham on the The Abomination of Sodomy
In case you're not familiar with that word, it means homosexuality, and to call it an abomination is, well, just not polite! Not to mention, it can get you "cancelled." I'm shocked this video by Voddie hasn't gotten taken down from YouTube, or what I've come to call...
Milo Yiannopoulos Is No Longer a Homosexual!
When I told my son, I guess the more cynical of my three children, he didn't believe it. He, like a lot of people, figured he wasn't even homosexual in the first place, that it was all an act to gain attention. If you don't know who Milo is, he is a provocateur who...
Articles on Apologetics
Miracle Stories in The Gospels Reveal their Historicity
Critics and skeptics of the Bible think that the miracle stories in the gospels are what make them so hard to believe as history. Just the opposite is the truth. In fact, the way the stories are portrayed, and that they happened at all, are evidence for their...
“The Robe”: How the Gospel Message Spread, You Can Believe It!
In my previous post I wrote that the historical novel, The Robe, was the greatest historical novel ever written. I haven't read every one, so this may be a bit of hyperbole, but author Lloyd C. Douglas makes a compelling case about how the spread of the gospel message...
“The Robe”: The Greatest Apologetic Historical Novel Ever!
If you've never heard of the The Robe (later made into a movie), I'm delighted you are now. The book played an important role in bringing me to Christ. My grandmother gave me a copy when I was 16, and it captivated me. I just finished reading it again for the fifth or...
Articles on Parenting and Family
The Wedding Supper of the Lamb, and My Daughter’s Wedding
We had the incredible privilege last weekend of enduring the traumatic experience of hosting our daughter's wedding. Until one actually does such a thing, you have no idea the insanity of such an undertaking, but the blessings and memories among the all the craziness...
Now I lay me down to sleep . . . Teaching Death to our Children
I grew up as I think of it as a typical Catholic of the 60s and 70s. We attended Mass every Sunday, I went to Catechism, and did my first Communion and Confirmation. Otherwise, our faith was not particularly relevant to the rest of our lives. But my mother did pray...
Toxic Masculinity: Teaching Your Boys To Become Men
All the secular left-wing isms of our day (feminism, progressivism, liberalism, cultural Marxism, secularism, etc.) have culminated in a phrase so oxymoronic it must have been invented by Satan himself: "toxic masculinity." To be masculine in the fevered, relativistic...