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Buchanan, Conservative Pessimism, and the Resurrection of the West
I recently finished Pat Buchanan’s, The Death of the West, and it’s been a fascinating experience reading Buchanan’s thoughts about the dying West with twenty-plus years in the rearview mirror. The book was published in 2002, and the Bush administration was in its...
Peter Walking on Water – You Can Too!
Well, maybe not actual water, but in Christ we can do the seemingly impossible in not giving way to fear and doubt because circumstances are greater than our Savior God. The gospel story of Peter walking on water has been significant for my life in many ways. There...
Parables of the Mustard Seed and the Leaven: Did Jesus Really Mean It?
Ever since, shockingly to me, I embraced postmillennialism in August 2022 and learned about these parables of Jesus in Matthew 13 (also Mark 3, Luke 13), I’ve wondered how people can deny the message he was conveying. Or how they can interpret it to be saying...
Articles on Theology
Private Property: Another (Necessary) Blessing of Christianity
In this unique time, to say the least, of an over-hyped pandemic (no doubt about that at this point), work and what it accomplishes, private property, is increasingly being seen for what it is, essential. How perverted is it when government tells us what is essential...
If There Was No Jesus, There Would be No Dignity in Work
Given that many Americans are unemployed through no fault of their own, and are chomping at the bit to get back to work, a few thoughts on Christianity and the dignity of work are appropriate. I'm currently reading How Christianity Changed the World by Alvin J....
Jesus of Nazareth: “Who do you say I am?”
These trying times are a reminder that the most important question of human existence came from a Jewish Rabbi 2,000 years ago: "But who do you say I am?" Jesus of Nazareth, objectively the most influential human being who ever lived, is himself life's ultimate...
Articles on Explanatory Power
Why Death????
In my last post on the nature of plausibility structures, I used a movie with death as a central character to show how subtle messaging in movies leads to making God seem more or less real to people, thus more or less plausible. As I said, death never caused one of...
Notable Quotation
In her fiction, O’Connor deliberately tried to alter her readers’ perception, to get them to notice what she called the “distortions” of modern life and to look at the created world closely enough that they might perceive in its depths proof of a creator. For secular...
Famous Christian’s Son Rejects His Father’s Liberal Faith
Liberal Christianity (J. Gresham Machen's Christianity & Liberalism is an excellent study on the differences between liberal and conservative Christianity) got it's start in America in the late 1800/early 1900s. It started with the 17th Century Enlightenment that...
Articles on Culture
In What Kind of Culture Do 45,000 People a Year Commit Suicide?
The statistics tell us that 45,000 people kill themselves in America every year; that is 123 per day! According to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (which obviously isn't doing a very good job), for every successful suicide, 25 people try to kill...
“Conspiracy” and the Longing for Justice
In the soon to be blockbuster best-seller, The Persuasive Christian Parent, I tell the story of "the clicker." Yes, that clicker, more commonly known as the remote control. As you'll read in the book, the clicker is a great tool for engaging popular culture with our...
Public (Government) Schools Must Be Abolished!
You can tell from the title of this post, that I won't be running for political office anytime soon. What's wrong with public schools? Why would I think they should be abolished? Many would call me crazy, but my argument is based on the first amendment to the...
Articles on Apologetics
The Criterion of Embarrassment, And Why You Shouldn’t be Embarrassed By It
The more I read the Old Testament, the more amazed I am that a people could be proud of such a book. I'm currently reading through Jeremiah, a prophet to the southern kingdom of Judah that was shortly to be destroyed by the Babylonians as God's judgment for their sin....
Is It Wrong to Torture Babies for Fun?
I can imagine you thinking at this moment, What kind of person would ask such a stupid question! Hang with me, and you'll realize it's not such a stupid question after all. In my previous post I shared an Alice in Wonderland adventure I had with a...
What and Why is This Thing Called Death
In my previous two posts I wrote about how death in a movie contributes to a secular plausibility structure, and how death lends more credibility to Christianity than atheism/materialism. In this post I want to explain what death is from a Christian perspective, and...
Articles on Parenting and Family
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