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Rebels Without a Cause: Fighting the World With Its Weapons

Posted on March 25, 2025 by RC

It was Marx who argued that, rather than man shaping economic realities, it was the economic realities that shape man. Despite his manifold and manifest follies, he had something of a point here. Setting aside for a moment the chicken … Continue reading →

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A Chosen Race, a Royal Priesthood, a Holy Nation

Posted on March 14, 2025 by RC

The serpent, more cunning than any of the beasts of the field, is a counterfeiter. His wily custom is to not merely construct an alternate realm to Christ’s realm. No, he crafts every piece of that realm as a copy … Continue reading →

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Quenching the Devil’s Fiery Arrows: Jesus the Christ

Posted on March 6, 2025 by RC

There is nothing new under the sun. In our battle with the world, the flesh and the devil there are no tactical advances, no technological upgrades. It’s the same temptations, assaults, dropped payloads as its always been. There are subtleties … Continue reading →

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These Are the Days of Our Lives; Another World

Posted on February 6, 2025 by RC

Dear Bob, What do you suppose that John means when he tells us, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit “Do not love the world, or the things of the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the … Continue reading →

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Evangelizing, Amidst the Ruins, Our Barbarian Hordes

Posted on January 31, 2025 by RC

Our strategies are often rather far from God’s strategies. Indeed, the simple fact that we sit down to strategize may be a sure sign that we are far from God’s chosen path. We are plotters and planners, who believe that … Continue reading →

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The Conquest of the New Promised Land, All the World

Posted on January 28, 2025 by RC

Most all of us, at one time or another, have found ourselves embarrassed by God. He Who has all perfections perfectly doesn’t always fit into our scheme of things. He doesn’t always do things the way we who are altogether … Continue reading →

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War, War and WAR Until the Close of History

Posted on January 24, 2025 by RC

In the last seventy-five years the United States waged war in Korea, Viet Nam, Libya, Panama, Grenada, the former Yugoslavia, Somalia, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Iraq again. These are the ones I can think of off the top of my head. … Continue reading →

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Tipping Points, Peer Pressure and Public Discourse

Posted on January 23, 2025 by RC

One should not be surprised that calamity follows in the wake of post-modernism and its dogmatic truth claim that there is no truth. To deny the possibility of knowing truth is not only self-referentially absurd, but is poison to decision … Continue reading →

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Order Hunger: Understanding The Rise of Christian Fascism

Posted on January 9, 2025 by RC

We all, to our shame, are prone to embracing ideas and behaviors on the basis of what we’ve been through. Trouble is, we usually don’t know we’re doing it. Our experience neither proves nor disproves, makes wise or foolish whatever … Continue reading →

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Bowing Before The Idolatrous Gods of This Age

Posted on January 3, 2025 by RC

Richard Weaver first made a name for himself when he published his seminal work, Ideas Have Consequences. It is a brief work with ideas that are still reaping consequences. He was to the secular academic world something of a Francis … Continue reading →

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