Sometimes we give ascent to anyone who accepts the label “evangelical” without appraising their actual belief system. For instance, Beth Moore treats the Word as an allegory to apply it to life. As the following analysis provides, she takes the content and does not give it any direct . . . . Continue Reading »
This Sunday marks “Sunday of Orthodoxy,” also known as “Triumph of Orthodoxy,” a date that meant nothing to me a few years ago because it is only observed in the liturgical calendar of the Eastern Orthodox Church. Two of my close friends, one who converted to Orthodoxy from . . . . Continue Reading »
My point, so far, is that God’s wrath is coming, and Jesus — whose birth we celebrate at Christmas — is the savior from that wrath. It’s a point a lot of people got because that’s what a savior is — and it’s a point I have made here before, so you were . . . . Continue Reading »
We now know of the hoax of anthropogenic (human-caused) global warming. The revealed emails show the manipulation of information. There is nothing left to doubt except the leftist politicians. But what do we do now? Here are some ideas:1) Ask Honda and Toyota to produce . . . . Continue Reading »
When I was a little boy, I knew pious Christians driven a bit mad by their failure to follow reason. I also knew impious pagans sterile as great fact-grinding machines by their lack of care for metaphysical facts. God created a world of spirit and a world of matter, a world of form and substance. . . . . Continue Reading »
Those who want to use this creed as the basis for their concession speech have to grasp first that the creed was not the means by which the universal and apostolic church all held hands and sang the Greek version of “Kumbaya”. It was the means by which the church was separating itself from egregious error. Continue Reading »
When I was a kid, I loved the sight gags in the old Adam West “Batman” series. One in particular used to crack me up: in the Bat Cave, the equipment was labeled with large signs, no matter how obvious it was what the item was. “Bat poles.” “Bat phone.” Etc. Ever . . . . Continue Reading »
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