- Circumspect on circumcision.
- Nobody loves a loser.
- Role models.
- Social Democrats for Ron Paul.
- “America’s Taliban.”
- Knickers in a knot over a pigment of the imagination.
Category: Sundry flakes
Tasty Tidbits 7/27/11
- Googling “synecdoche.”
- Neither Christian nor Conservative.
- What Breivik and Obama have in common.
- Make the machine stop!
- Ecumania.
Tasty Tidbits 7/25/11
- Orthodoxy in a nutshell.
- More time for Malia and Sasha.
- Did Rick Perry flub federalism?
- Gotham SSM, Day 2.
- Douthat on the Norwegian Bomber.
- Old is Green.
- The threat of the West.
Tasty Tidbits 7/22/11
Don’t miss Tidbit number 9.
- The legal logic of polygamy.
- In the name of Christ, I adjure you, sober and truthful spirit, be gone!
- Hey, liberals! Let’s get stupid!
- It’s amazing what you can do without nine robed demigods standing in the way.
- Naming things.
- I think that I shall never see…
- I’m going where they appreciate my kind.
- You don’t have to dig through garbage to find food.
- Bigger than any stinkin’ election.
Tasty Tidbits 7/6/11
Here’s some Tasty Tidbits for the day:
- Casey who?
- Cyrus the Above Average.
- Bradley who?
- How many do you need for a “stampede”?
- Nobody here but us Christians, ya’ darned heretics.
- Rare earth just became a bit commoner.
- Thomas More
- Jacknife Theology.
- Don’t hold your breath waiting for this 51st State.
- Ag-Gag Law?
Not with a bang or a whimper
You’re reading this, and it’s after May 21 in most time zones, so the world apparently didn’t end Saturday. Not with a bang or a whimper. Continue reading “Not with a bang or a whimper”
“Fundamentalism”
I more or less interchangeably refer to myself, in this blog and elsewhere, as having grown up “evangelical” or “fundamentalist.” But I don’t know if I’ve ever paused to try to describe what I mean, let alone make a focused effort at that. Continue reading ““Fundamentalism””
Catholicism versus Orthodoxy
A former Calvinist convert to Eastern Orthodox, I nevertheless have for 13 years tried to give Roman Catholicism its due. But having just finished Scott Hahn’s book Rome Sweet Home, where he dismisses Orthodoxy fairly perfunctorily, I rise in brief defense, letting chips fall where they may. Continue reading “Catholicism versus Orthodoxy”
You can’t make this stuff up
I recently stumbled upon a fundamentalist site, so absurd that it has lingered with me, explaining “why the Apocrypha isn’t in the Bible.” It’s absurd as any patent circular “reasoning” is absurd: the Apocrypha isn’t in the Bible, in substantial part, because it teaches false doctrine. And how does one discern false doctrine? By seeing if it’s in the Bible. Continue reading “You can’t make this stuff up”
Separated at Birth?
Is it just me, or does über-creepy Julian Assange of Wikileaks look a heckuva lot like John Hurt playing creepy Caligula in the BBC/PBS series I, Claudius? Judge for yourself: Continue reading “Separated at Birth?”
