Category Archives: Religious/Spiritual

More Loving than God?

Posted on August 9, 2019 by

One of the chief arguments against hell is that a loving God wouldn’t consign anyone to eternal punishment. I appreciate this sentiment and think it’s a typical response to the notion of eternal suffering, at least in the West. (Punishment, … Continue reading →

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Beginning And End

Posted on May 14, 2019 by

Sometimes an image or a moment, a word spoken or a flash of understanding hits us such that we not only never forget it, but are left imprinted, changed. Such a moment hit me several years ago. In a former … Continue reading →

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Review: Choosing Donal Trump: God, Anger, Hope, and Why Christian Conservatives Supported Him

Posted on January 26, 2019 by

Choosing Donald Trump: God, Anger, Hope, and Why Christian Conservatives Supported Him, by Stephen Mansfield.  Reviewed by Mike Halpin I gained unlooked for sympathy for Donald Trump from Choosing Donald Trump, and a wish that the author would have stuck … Continue reading →

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Lest We Forget

Posted on January 26, 2019 by

Rudyard Kipling wrote Recessional for Queen Victoria’s 60-year Diamond Jubilee in 1897. Her life and reign were winding down, she would die in 1901, and though the British Empire was at its zenith, it too would soon descend from its lofty … Continue reading →

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Batter My Heart

Posted on November 3, 2018 by

Batter my heart, three-person’d God, for you As yet but knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend; That I may rise and stand, o’erthrow me, and bend Your force to break, blow, burn, and make me new. I, like an … Continue reading →

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Mr. Kavanaugh Goes to Washington

Posted on October 5, 2018 by

Allysia Finley has an outstanding article in the October 4th, 2018 Wall Street Journal Opinion section titled, “Will the Senate Kill A Mockingbird?” It’s a great, point-by-point comparison of the treatment Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh is receiving with Tom … Continue reading →

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There Must Be Factions– Social Justice

Posted on September 22, 2018 by

Social justice and the gospel. Continue reading →

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