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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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How can the church best bless future generations?

Posted on December 30, 2024 by RC

We must pass down strong churches. A friend once told me about his first day at seminary. All the young men were gathered together and the president of the institution came to address them. He began, as one might imagine, … Continue reading →

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The Boy Behind the Curtain or, Silence of the Clams

Posted on December 17, 2024 by RC

It’s a simple rule really, but a powerful one, one I have found quite helpful to my peace of mind, making the best use of my time and my mental energy. I follow this rule- anyone speaking ill of another … Continue reading →

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Giving Honor To Our Fundamentalist Betters

Posted on December 13, 2024 by RC

It is no new insight to note that in America the evangelical church is worldly and anemic. We are so earthly minded that we are no heavenly good. The anemia comes from the worldliness. But whence comes the worldliness? Like … Continue reading →

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All Quiet On the Western Front

Posted on December 3, 2024 by RC

It probably says more about what defines our moments, the television, than the moments themselves, that we keep multiplying defining moments. For my parents’ generation, it was the death of John F. Kennedy. Everyone remembers where they first heard, or … Continue reading →

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The Year of Our Lord- Marking Time in His Kingdom

Posted on November 15, 2024 by RC

The world is half full of half-empty thinkers, and I am one of them. Puddleglum is my patron saint. And nothing exposes the vast expanse of emptiness in the top half of the glass like listening to the evening news. … Continue reading →

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