This past Saturday I returned from my two week residential intensive Davenant Hall course, "How to Read the Bible and the World." Naturally, it was a great time, but as with all great times, it produced many thoughts, along with a pesky number of emotions. Many of these thougths and emotions orbit around the … Read more…

The other day, as my wife and I were watching a pretty unobjectionable TV show, we came upon an all too common development. The protagonist was in love with a woman who was already engaged to some inferior man, and at the last moment she experienced a crisis of heart and called off the wedding. Now she is free to recon… Read more…

[A repost from my last blog, with which I still 95% agree.] Christianity doesn’t have the place it once did in the West. This has raised a lot of questions for Christians, particularly those who actually believe in the historic faith. Some people think Christendom was a bad idea to begin with, others think it was good … Read more…

In certain corners of the Internet, such as among my Twitter mutuals, a certain app has suddenly come to everyone's attention. It may not last long, but for the moment people "Are Reacting" to artwork created by WOMBO Dream app. Here is one of its masterpieces: The Dream app uses AI to turn a few keywords a… Read more…

[A repost from a previous blog] The moon landing was a hoax. Chemtrails are poisoning our brains. Roswell is covering up an alien spacecraft. Obama is a secret Muslim. Jet fuel doesn't melt steel beams. The Illuminati run the world. Everyone knows about conspiracy theories. Most of us don't believe most of them, of cou… Read more…

However much we know love, we also in many ways do not know it. We do not always see it for what it is, but from time to time we see startling glimpses into its reality. These flashes of light come from all manner of revelation. Sometimes we experience purest love in a dark night from a kind soul, or we may awaken to i… Read more…

Yesterday I read an article reporting that 1 in 4 young adults surveyed by the CDC admitted to thoughts of suicide during coronavirus lockdowns. Obviously, this should be the most pressing and discussed of all the news coming out in These Unprecedented Times™, and, even more obviously, it's not even close to being so. … Read more…