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Elon Musk and the Sovereignty of God
One of the most interesting people in the world in the light of history Many times, when something or someone with historical significance is happening, you can’t really see it at the time. Only later is the impact seen, with long term changes in society revealing themselves. The COVID-19 fiasco may quality as one of…
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The Tyranny of the Pagans
The public has aggressively pushed back against censorship and tyranny. But where did it come from? This week we had meals with two different couples from our church, both ex-military. Both had left the military because of the Covid mandate. One even had a medical exemption (he had a demonstrated reaction to an earlier flu…
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The Dying Woke
A forensic analysis of the mind virus and its cure An end of the year article on the Fox Business news site reads, “Was 2024 the year DEI fell apart?” The article chronicles the ditching of DEI policies and departments by many top corporations, as well as state governments and universities. DEI claims to be…
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America Rejects Wokeism
A spiritual analysis of the 2024 election Trump supporters celebrating the presidential election results at Rockefeller Center on Nov. 6, 2024 (New York Post). It’s been longer than normal since my last newsletter (I apologize) but I wanted to let the dust settle as everyone’s inbox has been overwhelmed by fever pitch political fundraising. A…
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A Christian Response to the Election
It’s not just voting The very title here may make some people flinch. They’ve bought into the idea that ‘politics and religion don’t mix’, or ‘the church should stay out of politics.’ That was NOT the sentiment for hundreds of years in our country, from the pulpit to the street. Most devout believers today find…
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How the U.K. Riots Prove You Can’t Have a Secular Society
Why we need a new kind of leader The recent riots in the UK are different than the riots we’ve seen in the last few years. In the other riots, such as the pro Hamas riots or the Black Lives Matter riots, it was against the supposedly white or ‘Western’ status quo. In the UK,…
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The Pagan vs The Christian View of Marriage
People get hurt if you adopt the wrong view Some of this is taken from my chapter Paganism and Marriage in my book, Modern Paganism. You have to be living in a cave to not know that for some time now marriage, in the traditional sense, has been under assault. When I make this…
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The Christian Roots of Conservatism
Parts of the Republican National Conference last night were very much like a church service. Diana and I watched the last half of the Republican National Convention last night (Day 2) while we sat in the living and caught up on emails. A lot of the heavyweights were up, former presidential candidates such as Nikki…
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When a Christian Leader Falls
What is the real narrative here? This past week has been difficult for a number of friends of mine. Another bombshell was dropped about a scandal of a well-known pastor, Robert Morris of Gateway Church in the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex. Allegations surfaced about Robert’s inappropriate touching and fondling of a twelve year old girl some…
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D-Day – Then and Now
“THE WHOLE WORLD is divided between … pagan brutality and the Christian ideal. We choose human freedom which is the Christian ideal.” These words were uttered by Franklin D. Roosevelt on May 27, 1941, as the world was watching Hitler’s forces march across Europe, as well as the increasing aggression of Japan. Roosevelt framed the conflict as a…
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The Coming Revolution in ‘Higher’ Education
It may already be here. We mentioned in our last issue how our senses have been assaulted by the campus demonstrations supporting the terrorist organization Hamas and calling for the eradication of Israel, in some cases. This speaks to a long standing trend in an alarming number of cases of what Bari Weiss called the…
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A Post Christian World is a World Nobody Wants
Why even thoughtful unbelievers recognize this is a really bad idea. The current new wave of protests on the ‘Poison Ivy’ elite campuses, such as Columbia in New York City continue to assault the senses of the vast majority of the American people. This latest wave seemed to be sparked by Iran’s attack on Israeli…
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The Exciting (and Sobering) Death of Scientism
There are reasons to believe the tide is turning Recently a couple of encouraging events crossed my screen. One was the release of Dr. Jordan B Peterson’s documentary “Logos and Literacy” on the Daily Wire+, a subscription only conservative commentary and media site. In his normally brilliant fashion, he interviews the curators of the Museum…
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Why Are Most of the People Obsessed About Racism Godless?
This morning I was at a men’s breakfast in my church. It consisted of generous helpings of hearty breakfast food (quiche doesn’t work in East Texas), some table discussions and a short devotional. The intention was to meet new men at our church campus. Several times on the way to a coffee refill, I came…
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At the top of a mountain in southern France
Why even the worst cold winters will not persuade the climate cult This last October, my wife and I were able join a bike tour in the beautiful Provence region of southern France. Besides seeing the beauty of the region, we were challenged in climbing the hilly terrain on our daily rides. The most challenging…
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Everything is Ultimately About Worship
Why this is where everyone ends up. imageric.com The myth of secularism Back in the early 1970s, when I was in high school and college, we were confidently told by our self-appointed cultural architects that science would lead us into the promised land and the really smart people were either atheists or at least secularists,…