Simply Wrong
An odd temptation of blogging is to hold forth in righteous indignation against evils that you cannot impact and nobody suspected you supported. It is a big world and lots of people someplace are doing...
View ArticleOn the Grad Glam Shots
My high school graduate picture combined bad taste on my part with artless camera work on the photographer’s part with hair so puffy that it had no part. A great blessing of being (almost!) fifty is...
View ArticlePrevailing over Depression
Sorrow in my life comes several different ways. If I sin, fall short of God’s standards, then my sin makes me sorrow. If I hold onto sin, then my depression deepens, eventually becoming a “new normal.”...
View ArticleI love on private property.
My Dad once pointed at that all my toys belonged, legally, to him. This was frightening until he explained further: I had visions of him swooping up my army men, Teddy, and Sir Gordon and his horse...
View ArticleThe Idol of Love
Mom and Dad are great parents. It is not Mother’s Day or Father’s Day, but events of the past week have set me to thinking about parents, love, and friendship. One virtue they had: my brother and I...
View ArticleLove, Desire, and Taking Up My Cross
Love is a command and no Christian should hate any human being as a human being. If people were perfect, that would be the end of Christian ethics: love is absolute and we should do to other people...
View ArticleJoyful
I have been sad off and on for years. This is a “first world problem” I know, because most do not have the privilege of worrying about their feelings as they struggle to survive. A survivor of the...
View ArticleHate
I am glad I did not say this: 25Now great crowds accompanied him, and he turned and said to them, 26“If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers...
View ArticleRoyal Baby
Excitement about the new heir to the British throne reminds Americans of the strength of monarchy. Britons swear allegiance to a human, Americans to a piece of paper. The human being, the Queen, is,...
View ArticleHistorical Parochialism: American Slavery is Not Ancient Slavery
Americans do not know much about history and when know a little we tend to Americanize it. Like American cheese product, this American history product is sort-of-like history, but also not very good:...
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