I got an e-mail not too long ago which purported to have been a television address by a name-brand conservative. I won’t give the name because I suspect the named was innocent of this particular pontification. It was the “God is a gentleman” routine about how we asked God to get out of our schools, so He left and then Read More

The revelation of God is fulfilled in Christ Jesus. What have we seen? The love of God. What shall be our practice, if we follow him? The love of God. Of all the authors in the New Testament, nobody speaks about the love of God by name as much as John. When people want to show how lovely God is Read More

I recently heard the “Star Spangled Banner.” This is actually an uncommon experience for me so I was able to really appreciate the strengths of the song properly sung. Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave? It is a song of triumph, no doubt; a song of assurance, confidence, victory, necessary and inevitable success! But if that success actually Read More

For a class presentation in college another student showed a clip out of a video about a woman who wished she were male. One of the concepts in the class was that the roles and functions of gender are something we invent and impose on people (which, like a lot of modern criticisms, is partly true but greatly overapplied). I Read More