Racism and Ancestry
My wife Lauren and I recently got the results back on DNA tests from Ancestry.com, and I have been joking with people I tell this to that it turns out I am 100% white. Joking aside, the results indicate the … Continued
Weakness As Virtue: The Case of Social Justice v. Real Justice
Weakness is not a virtue. Neither is poverty. This is what I told my sons during one of the many white board talks I delivered a couple weeks ago, when I was home on a ‘staycation’ for my wife’s knee … Continued
Regarding the Genesis Genealogies and Exceptionally Long Lifespans
Several years ago, I started writing a novel. The premise was simple. It was going to be an epic high fantasy in the vein of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings and C.S. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia. The subject matter … Continued
Jason Samenow, The Washington Post, and Climate Change
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
What Made America Great: Individualism, Liberty, and Self-Control
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
Fatherhood & The Large White Board on Our Dining Room Wall
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
How a Gay Black Man Became the Face of White Privilege
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
The Problem of Evil in the World
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
Pro-Life Birthday Traditions In Our House
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.
Tribalism, Morality, and Political Discourse
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