Postmodernism
Sometimes it is important to add your voice to a subject. Your unique view might give valuable insight that touches on points that others do not. Sometimes you write about something because it helps you to clarify your own thinking….
…A heart and mind searching for truth in a lying, fallen world.
Sometimes it is important to add your voice to a subject. Your unique view might give valuable insight that touches on points that others do not. Sometimes you write about something because it helps you to clarify your own thinking….
Most of us spent at least some the time during our periods of formal education engaging in bull sessions, wrestling with ideas with a group of friends or acquaintances in a self-sustaining battle of ideas in which point and counterpoint…
When atheists and secular humanists dismiss Christianity, they are dismissing more than religion. They are dismissing a cogent moral system, along with the system of rights that system bestows upon us all. Lest we forget, our inalienable rights, which form…
There was a bumper sticker that was popular for a while that said, “He who dies with the most toys wins!” While most people focused on the materialism represented in that sentiment, I want to instead look at the underlying…
In a wonderful article at Another Think, Charles Lehardy writes about Tradition As DNA. I particularly took note of his identification of one of the apparent inconsistencies of the Progressives. If Harris is right, what progressives are attempting is a…
I was going through on a deleting pass of the approximately 200-300 spam comments I get a day when I forgot to click the “Invert Checkbox Selection” link and deleted the good comments rather than the spam. Real comments get…
Most young people, unless they have seen the 1960 movie Inherit the Wind with Spencer Tracy and Fredrick March, have no inkling of the 1925 trial in Tennessee that became known as the Scopes Monkey Trial. It pitted two of…
This is an essay I wrote on September 11, 2003. It wasn’t written as an anniversary missive, but the events of 9-11 do form the backdrop to the premise, a canvas on which the power of renewal is painted in…
Is history really important? History says it is (and that is not a circular argument) as does the philosopher George Santayana whose famous quote has become a maxim. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. Life…
My original plan was write this post yesterday, but my daughter’s Father’s Day gift did me in (literally) and the aftereffects continue to do so for much of today. It all started out with church with my daughter. Afterward, Sarah,…
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