It was a rainy Saturday morning in Eastern Montana. I woke up, made myself a cup of coffee, and similarly woke my computer from its nightly slumber. I checked my Facebook notifications as I sipped. There I found new replies … Continued
Donald Trump campaigned on ‘Make America Great Again’, but was America ever a great nation? And, supposing she was, what made her great to begin with? Call me a conservative, but I believe America has been a great nation. Moreover, … Continued
The large white board in our dining room received a lot of use today. First, over breakfast, I used it to explain to my sons a project I was working on from home. The omni antenna gets assembled, then I … Continued
A Story of White Privilege Consider, for a moment, a young white man from a privileged home who goes off to college and joins a fraternity. This young white privileged frat boy begins to wreak havoc. He tweets out videos … Continued
Why do bad things happen to good people? How can a good God who loves us permit all the suffering in this world? These and other questions related to the problem of evil came up in a recent conversation I … Continued
Today is Mother’s Day, my wife’s thirty-second birthday, and a week and a day since the eighth birthday of my fourth son. Let me tell you about the last of those three.
A few weeks ago, popular evangelical preacher, Ravi Zacharias, responded to the much-talked-about Mueller report with the following criticism: If anyone ever thought the Mueller report would bring an end to this constant turmoil in Washington, they were the ultimate … Continued
I was in high school when JK Rowling wrote Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. Perhaps I thought I was too old to read a kid’s book. Or maybe I was too distracted by sports and friends to care about the intense controversy … Continued
David French recently published an article in National Review titled ‘Franklin Graham and the High Cost of the Lost Evangelical Witness.’ I came across it in my Facebook feed yesterday.
At 12:37 on April 15th, 2019, my wife messaged me to ask if I had heard that Notre Dame was on fire. That was the first I had heard. The fire has since been put out. From what I gather, … Continued