Years of being away from home during the Christmas season have taught me to appreciate the continuity of traditions that are shared across America. I’ve learned to appreciate Christmas lights hung hastily along roof ledges, grade school pageants, watching It’s a Wonderful Life on TV , . . . . Continue Reading »
Although religious syncretism is as old as religion itself, it’s always depressing to be reminded of its prevalence . Going to church this Sunday? Look around. The chances are that one in five of the people there find “spiritual energy” in mountains or trees, and one in six . . . . Continue Reading »
It’s the lovely time of year where people of all faiths, denominations and economic status levels do their absolute best to reduce the Yuletide season down to the most innocuous, commercially viable standard of celebration. These actions are, in turn, responded to by loud proclamations . . . . Continue Reading »
Fellow Evangel blogger Hunter Baker was the guest on the White Horse Inn this last week talking about his book, The End of Secularism.It made me want to read the book. You should give it a . . . . Continue Reading »
My point, so far, is that God’s wrath is coming, and Jesus — whose birth we celebrate at Christmas — is the savior from that wrath. It’s a point a lot of people got because that’s what a savior is — and it’s a point I have made here before, so you were . . . . Continue Reading »
Mary is the woman of Advent and Christmas.A creche without Mary is missing the main supporting character. It is unthinkable.Mary was the mother of God and the temptation is to stop there. It doesn’t get much greater than that does it?It does and Jesus says so in Luke 11:27As he said these . . . . Continue Reading »
This is unbelievable. Apparently the big deal in the “hide the decline” infamous email had to do with what tree ring shows about climate change. The Daily Mail checked the graphs produced by the UN’s IPPC, and it shows they did just that: When the tree rings (in green) showed . . . . Continue Reading »
The entire Obamacare saga has been the most dishonest, reckless, and foolish bit of legislating I think I have ever witnessed. It is a mess, and it seems quite obvious that our leaders don’t care that it is a mess. The problem—and particularly, Harry Reid’ s part . . . . Continue Reading »
I am not a huge fan of Thomas Sowell, It isn’t that I dislike him particularly, it’s just that he doesn’t give me the warm fuzzies. Sowell apparently has a new book out, however, that raises some issues worth pondering. Sowell believes that intellectuals are hurting . . . . Continue Reading »
Saint Chad’s Progressive Episcopal ChurchOffice of the Canon: the Right Reverend Dr. Dale OwensFontana By the SeaSermon for the Third Sunday of AdventOur text for today is from Frosty the Snowman. I must warn you that what follow is shocking, Glenn-Beck-head-exploding shocking.Global warming . . . . Continue Reading »
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