Beyond The Rim…

Some people believe the war we (the U.S. and Western Civilization) are currently engaged in is with Al Qaeda and the arbiters of radical Islam. While it is true that we are fighting those elements in several places around the…

In case you wondered about this or any other blog’s readability, this link will tell you the level required to read the entered blog. I tested a few well known and personal interest blogs for fun. [HT Rebecca Writes who…

This post was originally supposed to be only a draft for future development, but somehow it got published. I am sorry about that. You may have noticed that I have been on hiatus for a while. I have been trying…

I thought I might point out a few posts I have stumbled on and read recently. In a way this is my own private Carnival… Mad Minerva writes about how when Hugo Chavez put up a statue of Che Guevara,…

Most times, when I get up in the morning, my brain is in high gear; sometimes, rarely, it is somnambulant. Today I am at a run, with ideas flitting around like birds around a feeder. So here is one of…

Christianity, over the centuries, has been described in many ways. For most people, it is a system of beliefs and practices based on the Jewish Scriptures and the New Testament teachings of Jesus and his Apostles. Those beliefs and practices…

In 2005, I began a yearlong study of J. I. Packer’s wonderful book, Knowing God. Today I begin what will become a yearlong effort to write my own book along similar lines as Packer’s. You could say this study is…

Some people are irreverent to the end, even in the face of impending judgment. “This is no time to make new enemies.” Voltaire, when asked on his deathbed to forswear Satan. I wonder if he ever considered whether Satan was…

If you stand overtly as a Christian, then everything you do will be judged against Christianity, not just you. Former President Jimmy Carter made his public position overtly Christian, so now, whatever he says or does reflects back in the…

There is an interesting dichotomy going on in Western Culture and especially the United States. It has been noted that when politics moves away from the individual to the abstract, that is when the most terrible things happen, such as…