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Our Bread and Circuses: At Ease In Babylon

Posted on August 19, 2025 by RC

While Christians martyred under the Roman empire died for their faith, I fear they didn’t die for our faith. First, we must understand what Rome had against these saints. Part of the genius of the Roman empire was their “broad-mindedness.” … Continue reading →

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The Bride Wore Black: Protesting Our Pride

Posted on August 14, 2025 by RC

A week or so ago the folks at Protestia tweeted this: Better to marry a former OF model who has come to know the depths of her sin and the mercy of the Lord, than an unkissed virgin with a … Continue reading →

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Angels, Angels Everywhere- Messengers of Unbelief

Posted on August 12, 2025 by RC

Being sick has its advantages. I am constantly encouraged when sick by the willingness of others to pray. I am grateful for the prayers, and goaded to be a more faithful prayer warrior myself. It is also a timely reminder … Continue reading →

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Narcissists Gonna Narcissize: Popping Psychology’s Bubble

Posted on August 7, 2025 by RC

It is bad enough when a group of scholars determine themselves to be experts on the human psyche, while leaving behind God’s Word. Sometime in the late nineteenth century psychology as a field of study was birthed at the University … Continue reading →

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To Be is to Be Perceived: Falling Trees in the Woods

Posted on August 1, 2025 by RC

Like Xeno’s paradox, the counter-intuitive claim of Bishop Berkeley (pronounced Bark-lee for some strange reason) that esse est percipi, to be is to be perceived, is difficult to refute. The good bishop argued the world outside of us is only … Continue reading →

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Why is there so much demon possession in the Bible?

Posted on July 28, 2025 by RC

I don’t know. The Bible doesn’t say. I do, however, have a few thoughts. The first I remember learning from my father. He suggested that it may that the scope of demon possession when Jesus walked the earth may have … Continue reading →

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Lessons in the Crucible of Tyranny, in the Hand of Grace

Posted on July 25, 2025 by RC

C.S. Lewis, in his essay “On the Reading of Old Books,” which is found in the collection of essays, God in the Dock, argues that we are all by nature time bound. This frailty will, of necessity, give us a … Continue reading →

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People Are the Worst And Too Evil To Admit It

Posted on July 24, 2025 by RC

About six years ago Inc.com published a survey that showed that 83% of people believe that people are basically good. My own assessment is that 100% of those people who believe people are basically good are basically not the sharpest … Continue reading →

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The Specious Origin of The Origin of Species

Posted on July 22, 2025 by RC

Dear Dr. Darwin: There is an interesting angle on teleology that is rather like tossing a bat to see which team is up first, in the reverse. You may not remember that children’s game. One captain tosses the bat to … Continue reading →

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Will AI Take Over the World? Ghosts in the Machine

Posted on July 21, 2025 by RC

Though he was by no means the first nor the last to make this point, my father did a great service to the church by reminding it that “chance” has no causal power. Indeed it has no power at all, … Continue reading →

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