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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
Lessons from the Life, and Death, of Rachel Held Evans
Since everyone else it seems has commented on the unfortunate and untimely death of Ms. Evans, I figured I would as well because there are important lessons to be learned from her short time on this earth. In case you are not familiar with Evans, she was an author,...
What is the Gospel? Find Out at “Saints and Sinners Unplugged”
All Evangelical Christians know what the gospel is, right? It's the good news (in Greek) that Jesus died for our sins. Unfortunately, most Christians see the gospel as the means of becoming a Christian, and then it's on to other things, like learning how to become a...
“Don’t Let Me Down” . . . . They Always Will!
One of the most important things we can teach our children is that people will always let us down. I've tried all their lives to teach mine to have realistic expectations about human nature, others and their own. This way when people inevitably do let us down, we are...
Articles on Explanatory Power
#ShoutYourAbortion
The Planned Parenthood videos (see a "Quick and Easy Guide" to them at the Federalist) have put the pro-abortion movement on the defensive unlike at any time in the sordid history of legal abortion in America. Of course many abortion defenders have just attacked the...
Ashley Madison: Men Acting Like (Sinful) Men
As shocking as it may seem, a website dedicated to helping people find extra-marital dalliances is used almost only by men! Who could have seen that coming. The tag line for the Ashley Madison website, much in the news this past week or so, is, "Life is Short. Have an...
What the Heck is Natural Law Anyway?
At the website of the Theopolis Institute a piece was recently posted by Mark Horne with the curious title, "If There is 'Natural Law' How Can People Believe in Same-Sex Marriage?" I say curious because I'm not sure why five lawyers in black robes declaring gender...
Articles on Culture
Historical Aberations – Secularism and the Berlin Wall, Part 2
As I stated in my last post, The Berlin Wall is a great metaphor for the current reigning worldview in the West, secularism. My thesis: Secularism is a deeply flawed and weak explanation for the nature of reality. Correctly understood, we don’t need to fear secularism...
Secularism – The Modern Berlin Wall, Part 1
On the evening the title of this post came to mind, I'd been interacting with a possible publisher for the book. They have a concern with what appears my excessive confidence that we, Christians, can keep our kids Christian. Having read just the first few chapters...
The More Secular a Society, The Fewer Children Will Be Born
When I was growing up in the 60s and 70s, the big concern and among fear-mongering apocalyptics was over-population. One best-seller at the time, published in 1968 by Stanford University Professor Paul Ehrlich, was subtly titled The Population Bomb. It predicted that...
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