Author: Tim

• Melting Pot

  Somehow, America told herself “diversity” made her great.   Not only is this not true, the people who say it don’t know what it means. It’s more feeling than meaning. Of course America was “built” by _immigrants_ from many shores.   Many languages, cultures, religions came together and poof!  America.   First diverse cultures, then…

• What Was That Crack of Stone?

  If we are not explaining some event that has no plausible natural explanation, we’re just adding to the cacophany.    The Christian church’s power is not in winning a “battle of worldviews”,  or in “contending for biblical truth”.   If this is all we have to say then the proclamation of the church cannot pierce through…

• Genesis 1: The Layers of Intelligent Design

  A very rough draft. First, the primordial cosmos: the earth was “without form and void”. This is not something other than matter. In fact, you actually can’t imagine something other than matter. Even when you imagine energy, the nebulous form of matter, you imagine a picture drawn from visible angles of matter. What God made…

• Government Workers Are Structurally Hamstrung

  People who work in government are normal people (you might be one) but their organization hamstrings them — necessarily.    It is not possible for a government institution to compete with a private institution. Their work takes place in an adversarial arena with legislated transparency. Nobody can do well in this environment.   It’s like…

• The Presidency

  To the Left, the President is the Chief Executive of the country. That makes us his employees. In the Constitutional vision, he is Chief Executive of the government. That makes us his customers. You can’t have conversations when your words mean the opposite.  

• John 9: Jesus talks about design

  The sermon today really was about the healing of the blind man in John 9, though it might be hard to see that from these notes: 1. Man chose a random universe. If this part is left out, the rest makes no sense. And this is the part secularists insist on leaving out, so that…

• J.R.R. Tolkien: on “eucatastrophe”

  “…the sudden happy turn in a story which pierces you with a joy that brings tears (which I argued it is the highest function of fairy-stories to produce). And I was there led to the view that it produces its peculiar effect because it is a sudden glimpse of Truth, your whole nature chained in…

• History and Politics and your Future

  …in one sentence: When “person” means anything other than “object of God’s love”, bloodbaths ensue. I’m not sure democracy can survive as the Judeo-Christian tincture fades from the West, leaving…what?  The science we learned from Aristotle?   What is a vote-deserving agent under the gaze of reason alone?   The sanctity with which people regard “one person,…

• Grace versus Karma, by Bono

  This exchange has become well-known and Bono is praised for his acumen: Bono: Yes, I think that’s normal. It’s a mind-blowing concept that the God who created the universe might be looking for company, a real relationship with people, but the thing that keeps me on my knees is the difference between Grace and Karma.…

• The Zen of Watercolor

  The brush is a better artist than you are.    The water is a better artist than you are.   Just introduce the colors to each other then go get a coke.   They’ll form their own friendships and you can sit in the corner and eavesdrop.