Recently, I wrote a piece on various issues, and where various groups stand on them – I outlined the far left, left, right, and far right positions. I also outlined what I thought were the characteristics of my new whipping boy, neofundamentalism. However, today, after...
As a former biochemist (I’m in computers now), I totally identified with Geoff Down’s story of how he became a creationist (from the book In Six Days: Why 50 Scientists Choose to Believe in Creation). Here’s my redux, with quotes from the article. 1. Evolution...
William Dembski, well-known Intelligent Design spokesperson, had a very funny article the other day entitled Evolution and the Stages of Grief. I just *have* to summarize it ;). In the article, he outlines three models for the process of how new truths are recognized. You’ve...
In Part I, we introduced the idea of wounded masculinity, and how all men have some level of injury, and many men have significant wounds that need to be healed. A big part of healing the masculine soul (apologies to Gordon Dalbey) is seeing the...
Most men today arrive in adulthood with injured masculinity. We are victims of bad or absent fathering, or abuse by other males. Rather than displaying the characteristics of mature manhood, we display the absence of masculinity in passivity, indecision, effeminacy, and moral weakness, or the...
I’ve had it with my conservative fellows who insist on tightly linking abortion with right-to-die issues. Sure they are related. NO, they are not synonymous, nor must the decision to allow the right-to-die be instricately linked to abortion rights. Let us instead try to separately...
Here’s one more article from Mark Beliles, culled from an old publication, and probably expanded upon in his book Liberating the Nations: Civil government is one of the five main areas of jurisdiction to whom God gives certain responsibilities and very definite limits. This article...
The following essay on government is from an out of print Christian newspaper. I want to post this short section of the essay, since it is a great primer on a biblical view of government. This essay was originally written as a response to a...
