The bearer of good news hesitates to follow his unwelcome counterpart too closely lest his audience still be shooting at the first, but he is also spurred by the hope that he can bring encouragement in the heat of engagement. In that light, I hope you will be encouraged that the Second Circuit on Friday issued a permanent injunction favoring the church to which I | Read More »
Men ought not to content themselves with a general repentance, but it is every man’s duty to endeavour to repent of his particular sins, particularly. (WCF* XV:5 Of Repentance unto Life) Little children, keep yourselves from idols. (1 John 5:21, ESV) As the nomination of a Republican candidate has millimetered nearer over recent months, the volume of commentary–in both senses–on every aspect of process and | Read More »
Shared memories of place and time are among the great shapers of any culture. While some of these are wedded by spatio-temporal events of such enormity that popular metonomy is assured–Pearl Harbor never really existed other than on a particular day of infamy, did it?–many others–as the Rockies and the Sixties–can mentally exist almost entirely in a single frame of reference: the former simultaneously enfolding | Read More »
While the music started long before the hat was dropped in Charleston, the dance around the implications of Gov. Perry’s Christian faith is just entering full swing, and couples now flying around the floor can be expected to prance only more frantically until the last bar is played next November. Leon’s More Drooling Idiocy on Rick Perry’s Faith draws attention to the self-conflicted steps of | Read More »
All flesh is grass, and all its beauty is like the flower of the field. The grass withers, the flower fades when the breath of the LORD blows on it; surely the people are grass. The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever. Isaiah 40:6-8 (ESV) When I was in grade school, my mother fixed up the couch for | Read More »
Recent references to Christmas on the site have emphasized its benefits in realms ranging from cultural to redemptive; its helpfulness in improving the state of that precious location, the interior life*, has been variously extolled. The enduring Christmas carols, taken as a whole, emphasize many aspects of Jesus’ advent and birth–prophecy revealed and fulfilled, the local manifestations of drama which occurred when the eternal covenant | Read More »
Caveat Lector: Notwithstanding our allegiance to this most anti-monarchial of Republics, some of us have found ourselves simultaneously subjects of a different kingdom, meaning neither Animalia nor our particular ancestral “old country”, but rather that new city under its most absolute of monarchs. The following is addressed to those who recognize and love that new city, who know themselves to be its current and future | Read More »
From Isaiah, no stranger to political reversal: Behold, the nations are like a drop from a bucket, and are accounted as the dust on the scales; behold, he takes up the coastlands like fine dust. : All the nations are as nothing before him, they are accounted by him as less than nothing and emptiness. : It is he who sits above the circle of | Read More »
While we are hopefully about to witness the landfall of a tectonically-scaled political realignment, even movement on a more humble scale can and should be appreciated for its part in the overall potency of effect, i.e. DOOM. Such a movement occurred yesterday when NY State Sen. Ruben Diaz (D) endorsed NY-15 (R-Cand.) Michel Faulkner in his bid to send Charlie Rangel out to pasture, imploring | Read More »
Despite the risk of offending most of the management and readership of this site–upon whose joint efforts much of my political education gratefully rests–I hope it may prove profitable to lay out a case for difficulties in the Manhattan Declaration which constrain me from signing it in good conscience. By doing so I intend no disparagement of any here who have declared their intent to | Read More »
Some of you already know that I live in the Worst Place in The World. We who live here–the ubiquitous “they”–are among the Worst People in The World. TheyWe are born Liberal, live Liberal, think Liberal, work Liberal, vote Liberal, die Liberal; then TheyWe are worshipped Liberal by all TheirOur Liberal brood, in saecula saeculorum, Ommmm[1]. Before the Great Quarantine, but at a time still | Read More »
Thank you, Macon Phillips, for so adroitly wielding your journalistic skill in your recent missive intended to remove all things scary and/or fishy: … Linda Douglass … addresses one example that makes it look like the President intends to “eliminate” private coverage, when the reality couldn’t be further from the truth. I guess you didn’t really need all those sentence-diagramming drills after all, did you? | Read More »
Sarah Palin’s elevation to the national stage nearly a year ago brought much excitement and hope to many of us who had long been frustrated with the inability of the Republian party to launch a leader capable of articulating the hopes and aspirations of We, The People. Now that she has left that stage, we are leaderless, we are rudderless, we are without hope in | Read More »
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