Tomorrow is the worst holiday in the secular calendar: Presidents’ Day. We do not have a Supreme Court Day or a Congress Day because it is all about the presidency. Our new imperial presidency demands we honor not just the great leaders, Washington and Lincoln, but James Buchanan and Herbert Hoover. There was a discussion of an Unelected Agency Head Day until it was pointed out that every day is Unelected Agency Head Day.  The power to regulate is greater... Read more

Here is bad news: God exists. Why is this bad news? Someone is watching and it seems more than a little scary that He sees us when we are sleeping, he knows when we are awake. We are never alone and this, at least initially, horrified me. Here is better news: God is good, all knowing, and all powerful. If God existed, then He might be wicked, delighting in our torment. That possibility is one reason the ancients invented atheism:... Read more

Clashing bad ideas on college fill my social media provoked by Scott Walker. Like Washington, Lincoln, and Truman, but also like several neighborhood bums now watching Netflix everyday in their parent’s dens, Scott Walker did not finish college. Defenders of Walker are right to say that college is not for everyone and that a great many successful people do not finish (Walt Disney!). I would go further. Given the education he was getting or was willing to get, dropping out... Read more

I miss my Auntie Karen: gone so long. I miss my grandfathers’ example and friendship: Papaw Earl played a great game of checkers and Papaw Shelby was a master story teller. I miss my grandmothers’ practical wisdom: Nana could create an “alternate” world when we played together and Granny was wonderful at creating restful space for her guests. I miss so many people I love who are gone. Once when talking to an atheist, they said to me: “You are... Read more

Google “Christian worldview” and you will discover a large number of people whose profession it is to teach Christians to look at issues from a Christian perspective. The most common explanation of “worldview” is the intellectual “glasses” we use to clarify our vision of the world. Safe to say, there are two different opinions about “worldview” education that I encounter. Christian academics (or want to be academics) generally dislike it while standard church goers are not big fans, either. The... Read more

Good people are going into the shadows to discuss a book and a film coming out soon. I commend their courage and am glad that is not my calling. Instead of condemning the eclipse of love in pop culture, let me commend the beauty of love found in an excellent book: The City of Tranquil Light. America is choosing, as civilization always do, between erotica and romance, between a plunge from the shadows into darkness or a move from the shadows... Read more

“My hope is built on nothing less than Jesus’ blood and righteousness . . .” So went the hymn from my childhood and it is stuck in my head today along with the versions my Mother and I invented when we sat in hospital waiting rooms waiting for Dad to visit the sick of our church. “My hope is built on nothing less than bubble gum that is sugarless. . . “ suggested our aversion to the dentist. Surely nothing... Read more