There are no more New Worlds. Consider the original “Brexit,” if you will. The United States of America, in a revolution born from the chaos of desperation and reaction, effectively...
ON NEW WORLDS
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On Race Scars
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Like John beat Peter in a footrace to the tomb on Easter morning, some folks outpaced me on the way out of some unhelpful and simply false teachings. And of course, I judged them harshly when they...
ON COVID
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I have COVID. Again. For the third time. That’s three strains now. I’ve experienced Beta, Omicron, and now this new Omicron-related strain called “BA-5.” Or “XBB.”...
On Kissing Waves
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“I have learned to kiss the waves that throw me up against the Rock of Ages,” said Spurgeon. I haven’t nearly perfected this to where I can resolutely say that this is something...
On Coors, Coitus, and Churros
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Let’s get right to the point: today’s Christianity — mess that it is sometimes — has large pockets of people who proudly proclaim the perils of alcohol and smoking and other...
On Departing From Sound Doctrine
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About seven years ago, I was ordained and sent out by a local Baptist church where I had trained and served as the associate pastor for a couple of years. Soon, they will be rescinding that...
On Evening Services
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I recently read a social media post by a popular pastor in my region both bemoaning the loss of “night services” (evening meetings at church on Sundays and Wednesdays) and chastising...
Oh, the Blasphemy
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These three words were urgently uttered in unspeakable umbrage on Facebook by a lady not after reading a sermon by Robert Tilton, Joseph Smith or Charles Taze Russell, but after seeing a snapshot of...
On Blogging
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I am starting this blog for a few reasons. Truncation is the rule of social media, like it or not. Blogs, however, have no such expectation. Controlled comments. Way more conducive to charity...
