Category: Christianity

In The Hideous Strength C.S. Lewis makes an interesting statement, put in the mouth of his hero (Ransom). …that when you mean well, He always takes you to have meant better than you knew. Lewis has his character say that…

We have owned three Akitas, a Japanese breed introduced into the U.S. after WWII. Orignally bred to guard the Emperor and protect villages from bears (three Akitas have brought down a marauding bear), the enigmatic large breed is powerfully built…

A priories are the foundation of what comes later. They are the starting point of your argument. They are not formed from evidence or facts, but are choices. They form the foundation on how evidence and facts are interpreted. In…

The Sara Groves’ song Awakening has a line “His blood is real, not just a symbol of…” Those words bring up lots of images. There is the scene from Mel Gibson’s movie where Mary and Mary Magdalene use towels to…

There are those who believe that all religions of any consequence are an attempt to deal with the problem of evil and it is that problem that perplexes even the rationalists. I disagree. If we really lived in the sterile,…

One of the blogs I visit every so often (if you read my history I was Episcopal for 27 years), is the Midwest Conservative Journal, an ongoing critique of all things Episcopal. In a recent post, Christopher Johnson talked about…

“I the LORD search the heart and test the mind, to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds.” Jeremiah 17:10 One effect of our culture of immediacy, where anything more than a few…

For all practical purposes, everything has a starting point. In searching for beginnings, we are ultimately led to one of two premises: God or not God. Many in our age argue that science naturally leads to not God, and if…

I was reading through some old postings this morning, searching for something and I noticed something in one of my Lenten postings from earlier this year that struck a cord with me, so much so that I decided to pull…

The current thinking about the confrontation between radical Islam (Sunni Wahhabism and Shi’a Islam almost across the board) and the West is that it is a long war. No matter where you fall on the political spectrum, this is a…