[This article is 3,500 words long. If you want to live, you’ll read it to the end.] Not too long ago, I updated my disclaimer to the right with the note: Because I believe that people are being manipulated into regularly scheduled outrages, … I will generally abstain from opining on ‘national conversations’ until I …
I’ve been spending a fair bit of time acquiring and analyzing books that advocate for manipulating people. Not, as you might be thinking, so I can manipulate people, but because I find manipulation to be disgusting, vile behavior. It is prima facie evidence of that the manipulator is a bad actor. Bad actors should be …
When I was in high school one of my religion teachers had us memorize this statement: “I am a unique child of God, full of potential.” When I became a religion teacher, I modified it slightly to, “I am a unique child of God, full of potential, and my life is hidden in Christ. (From …
Losing the battle on ‘gay marriage’ should be a stark reminder that this world is not our world. The worldly fight for the world tooth and nail because it, literally, is all they’ve got. We cannot fight their fights in the same way that they fight them. We can, however, fight tooth and nail for the health and well-being of our own families, minding our own business, and seeing to it that as the Titanic goes down, our own children, at least, are on the lifeboats.
One day you wake up and you realize that a vast number of our fellow citizens simply do not live in the same universe as we do. You cannot persuade people who live in this alternate universe. They are as beyond our reach as one universe is beyond the reach of another universe in the Multiverse. They must instead be out-voted.
Fifth graders everywhere should have sex and anal sex. This (common core compatible?) school curriculum will show them exactly how to do it. Oh, and urge them to be abstinent.
Nancy Pearcey, author of Saving Leonardo and a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute, will be the 2014 keynote presenter. The theme this year is ‘Women Equipping Women’ so all of the presenters are ladies, but men, of course, are welcome.
Stop treating the symptoms, and look for the illness.
No one wants to be told that they cannot play with their toy. No one wants to be told that their toy might even be dangerous in certain contexts–like the child that wishes to play baseball in the living room does not like being told to take the baseball bat and ball into the field, where that toy is more appropriate–or, that they shouldn’t bash people in the head with the baseball bat.
4. What is your opinion on the current intellectual state of the modern church? Some apologists have begun to heavily criticize it. I think there is no question that there are vast stretches of ignorance in the modern church, but I doubt the ‘modern’ part of that phrase is relevant. I’m not very impressed with …
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