Consider Psalm 23 in relation to anxious and depressed American teens, as well as young people more generally, and megalomaniacs, and those who want to phase out ‘Mom’ and ‘Dad’.More
Category Archives: Theology
A Little Less Conversation, A Little More Action
In Genesis, we are told of a man named Shechem, the prince of the land where Jacob’s household resides, how he sees Jacob’s daughter Dinah when she is out and about. More
The Lord’s Prayer for Current Events and Political Engagement
Should the Lord’s Prayer frame the way we think about the news cycle, or engage in political action and discourse? I believe it should, properly understood. More
Why We Ultimately Cannot Help Legislating Morality
I maintain that we cannot help legislating morality. To propose, debate, vote on, enact, enforce, or review laws judicially is, inescapably, a moral exercise. More
Against Fatalism, If You’re Not Sure What to Do, Do Something
The most memorable advice my grandfather gave my father in his younger years went something like the following: “If you don’t know what to do, do something, even if it’s wrong.”More
Lamentations 3
Consider the inclusion of a reference to arrows being shot into kidneys, or the destruction and fate of the daughters of my people and city, or eyes being worn out from weeping.More
Sundry Summary Thoughts About Yes and No On New Year’s Eve 2022
As another year draws to a close, it occurs to me that planning boils down in the end to a series of Yes and No answers to various and multitudinous questions.More
Expectations of the Christmas Season, Let Your Light Shine Before Others
What we hope to get by way of reward for our good works makes quite a lot of difference in whether our good works would be better done privately, discretely, and even secretly. More
Blessed Is The Man Whose Delight Is In The Law of Yahweh
Consider Psalm 1, and the blessed man who loves and meditates on God’s Law both day and night, and how he prospers in everything he does, but how the wicked are not so.More
Montana Nursing Home Closures, the Merchant of Death, and Cameron Bertuzzi
Aesthetics is well and good, but Bertuzzi’s reasons are definitionally superficial. Whatever he says about Bayesian analysis, methinks he had a conclusion in search of justification. More