Believe to Reason

(Based on Isaiah 5:1-7, John 15:5-7 & Matthew 28:18-20) Once upon a time the son of a Great King decided to plant a vineyard on a certain hill. His Father had done the same years before. But because the gardeners — husbandmen they called them in those days — had been unfaithful, the vines had…

“How about you?  Ever wonder if you’re the only one who doesn’t quite fit into one of the sanctioned queer worlds? …Well I’ve got news for you…you’re simply postmodern. Isn’t that neat?”* One doesn’t have to study or think long about the current trends in our culture relative to the normalization of homosexuality before realizing…

And when Jesus had stepped out of the boat, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit… And Jesus commanded him, “Tell me your name!” (Mark 5: 2, 9) There are few things I enjoy more than God’s wisdom, love and sovereign grace shining into darkness…and then watching as…

“It is instructive to know that under the influence of seduction the child may become polymorphous-perverse and may be misled into all sorts of transgressions. This goes to show that it carries along the adaptation for them in its disposition…. it is absolutely impossible not to recognize in their uniform disposition for all perversions the…

File this under ONE OF THE BEST QUOTES ON HUMAN NATURE AND POLITICAL THEORY EVER UTTERED. Would that every politician had this tattooed on their heart; their forehead if necessary. “There are only two possible forms of control: one internal and the other external; religious control and political control. They are of such a nature…

             His mouth forms, and breath adorns       and lathes the hearts that see Earth’s armies sing a ten-stringed song          as awe unstrings the warrior’s knee.

You can file this under “Broken Clock Gets It Right Twice a Day.” It is not a stretch to put Charles Darwin near the top of the list of people who have changed the world. His theory of evolution by random mutation and natural selection is viewed by most academics as providing the foundation for…

“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself–and you are the easiest person to fool.” Nobel Prize-winning physicist, Richard Feynman, in his 1974 Caltech commencement address, “Cargo Cult Science” Feyman was right*. But therein lies perhaps mankind’s greatest problem. If we’re predisposed to fooling ourselves, when can we know we have stopped and…

“God, who needs nothing, loves into existence wholly superfluous creatures in order that He may love and perfect them. He creates the universe, already foreseeing – or should we say “seeing”? there are no tenses in God – the buzzing cloud of flies about the cross, the flayed back pressed against the uneven stake, the…

I happened to catch a four-minute clip on today’s (4/17/14) episode of All Things Considered. It was one of those off-the-beaten-path stories that helps me appreciate NPR, regardless of its progressive leanings. (Actually – all things considered – I think the government-subsidized radio network has been doing a fairly good job of moving towards the…

I”ve fallen out of love with him; this band”s become a fetter A quick glance back, the thought emerged I could have done much better Deferring hopes became as dust and settled round her soul Shadows stretched by sinking lights collapsed into the whole. And then one morn a sunbeam danced and flashed the gloom…