Month: November 2008

• On Talking About Creativity

  Before “Let there be light” there is only “without form, and void”.   What precedes God’s Creation ex-nihilo implies that it is impossible to talk about the creative process.   You can stand outside it and talk about appearances, but you can’t stand inside it and talk about it.  The “meta” mode of discourse instantly loses touch…

• My Credo

  Some people read things I’ve written and may miss the irony, sarcasm, or some other tone.  They wonder if I’ve become a zen jedi druid or something.  For the record and for anyone who cares, here is what I believe until another memo is officially issued: I believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker…

• Raymond Chandler: “…all this fairy gold…”

  No doubt I have learned a lot from Hollywood. Please do not think I completely despise it, because I don’t. The best proof of that may be that every producer I have worked for I would work for again, and every one of them, in spite of my tantrums, would be glad to have me.…

• Dougles Wilson: On Children In Church

  Pastor Wilson speaks for those of us who think that “seeker sensitive” started in “children’s church” and ends in Ipod Church, where every person just downloads their own church service and plays it into their ear buds. BLOG and MABLOG Many years ago we made the decision to disband our children’s church and nursery, and…

• Victor Davis Hanson: “…the West itself…vanished on the altar of therapy.”

  Works and Days » Ten Random, Politically Incorrect Thoughts The K-12 public education system is essentially wrecked. No longer can any professor expect an incoming college freshman to know what Okinawa, John Quincy Adams, Shiloh, the Parthenon, the Reformation, John Locke, the Second Amendment, or the Pythagorean Theorem is. An entire American culture, the West…

• Fatherlessness

  This generation of evangelicals really is fatherless and adrift. They know that, they ache over it, they cannot pretend not to know it, but they have no intention of turning back to their fathers. And that means repentance has not yet been given. —    Douglas Wilson, reviewing The Shack. Evangelicals have lost fatherhood, because they…

• “There is a brilliantly worded explanation for this.”

  CЯЦISIИG DOШИ ТНЕ СОДST OF THE HIGH БДЯБДЯEE “Lots of people are secure in their religious beliefs using rationale akin to, “There is a brilliantly worded explanation for this.” The problem is that mutually exclusive beliefs can all claim this. I Either every belief with such an explanation is truly a reasonable thing to believe,…

• Love, or die of loneliness.