This has been the way of things for most of human history, with the exception rather than the rule being that men of good character are calling the shots, humanly speaking.More
Category Archives: History
Flaming Dictionaries, and What It Meant for the Magi to Call Jesus the King of the Jews
A critical difference between the “King of the Jews” named Herod, and the one the Magi were seeking, was who had declared this, and from whence the power and authority was derived.More
Andrew Garfield, Roman Censors, Judean Dates, and Herod the Great
Did you know that Herod’s father’s association with Julius Caesar helped him to secure the appointment by the Roman Senate in 37BC to the position of “King of the Jews”?More
Year Zero and Partisanship
All that being a partisan means is that you are partial, or devoted, or an adherent. Therefore, a partisan for Christ is a good thing to be, all the better the more you are.More
Religious Liberty, Helm’s Deep, and the Protestant Magisterium
My Friday was filled watching debates and panel discussions about Christians and politics while remote programming from home. The big take-away? We really need to rethink religious liberty.More
Last of the Mohicans Is a Thanksgiving Movie, and the David French and Indian War
Men like myself don’t think David French’s kind should hold our forts in the New World; as I am reminded in watching Last of the Mohicans, we never have.More
Columbus Day, School Choice, Internet Trolls, and Colorado’s 8th Congressional District
I recently engaged an attack ad on Facebook against the Republican candidate for Colorado’s 8th Congressional District, and her ‘extreme’ support for a nationwide ban on abortion.More
Why Women and Young Men Weren’t Allowed to Read Ezekiel
An old Jewish tradition held that men under 30 were not permitted to read Ezekiel. And, as will surely shock feminists in our day, women were not permitted to read it at all.More
Three Years in Colorado, Plutarch’s Life of Camillus, and Credentialism
We would all be better off if fewer of us went to college, and more of us read our Bibles and Plutarch instead, and then became conversant with one another about what both can teach us.More
Book Review: ‘The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind’ by Mark A. Noll
Why have so many American evangelicals in recent decades not invested more in intellectual pursuits? Mark A. Noll here in ‘The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind’ wants to know.More