May 11, 2025
“Nobody can ‘live their truth’ for long. Everyone knows this.” — Melissa Dougherty, Happy Lies I have addressed the issue of relativism in the past. But, it’s always good to have a reminder of the causes and consequences of this faulty mindset. The citation below comes from the new book, Happy Lies, by Melissa Dougherty. […]
Tags: Happy Lies, living my truth, Melissa Dougherty, moral relativism, New Thought, objective truth, only one reality, spiritual component, subjective vs. objective truth, subjectivism, truth and consequences, truth based on facts, truth based on feelings, You do you
Posted in Religion, Uncategorized |
May 4, 2025
I re-read Michael Denton’s Evolution: A Theory in Crisis (1986) recently. When he wrote the book, Denton, an agnostic, was an Australian medical doctor and scientist doing biological research in Sydney. It was one of my favorite books when I was reading a lot on the evolution/creation/ID “debate” back in the 2000s, and I wanted […]
Tags: a theory in crisis, bewildering complexity, great analogy, Intelligent Design, Michael Denton, protein synthesis, self-replication, skeptical of Darwinism, supreme technology, the cell as a factory
Posted in Science |
April 27, 2025
Having already addressed the Genesis 6 issues in “My Take on the Sons of God and Nephilim in Genesis 6” and the awkwardness of Genesis 9 in “My Take on Noah’s Drunken Nakedness and the Sin of Ham in Genesis 9”, it’s now time I finally took a shot at this seemingly out-of-the blue attack […]
Tags: angel or theophany, bridegroom of blood, circumcision, Gershom, God attacks, Moses in trouble, neglecting covenant obligations, weird Bible passage, Zipporah
Posted in Religion |
April 20, 2025
“Instead of fiction and fairy tales, archaeology indicates that the Bible preserves an accurate recounting of the history addressed in its pages.” — Titus Kennedy, writer, professor, and professional field archaeologist I bought a new book — Unearthing the Bible, by Dr. Titus Kennedy — that I’ll be reading through soon-ish. I was flipping through […]
Tags: Alexamenos Graffito, archaeological evidence, burial bench, Church of Holy Sepulchre, crucifixion, edict of Caesar, Judean custom, limestone tomb, mocking Jesus, nail through heelbone, Roman nails, The Nazareth Inscription, Titus Kennedy
Posted in Religion |
April 13, 2025
“Indirects are just ways for wealthy academic hospitals to pocket money that their investigators won and then create slush for those who are incapable of getting funded on their own. It’s a huge grift and great place for cuts.” — David Whelan, a healthcare consultant and former healthcare writer for Forbes Last week, I wrote […]
Tags: 15% cap on overhead, cancer research, corruption, DOGE, federal funding, fraud, grant money, indirect costs, Isaiah Hankel, lack of accountability, lack of oversight, National Institutes of Health, NIH, slush fund, Trump administration, Vinay Prasad, waste
Posted in Politics, Politics & Science, Science |
April 6, 2025
“The world’s richest man took $190 million away from kids with cancer.” — MSNBC host Chris Hayes on X (referring to Elon Musk) Instead of ranting about Trump’s tariffs like everyone else this week, I decided to address something else… Lately, I have become aware of certain claims made by some Leftists and other anti-Trumpers, […]
Tags: Appropriations Bill, canceled meetings, cancer research, delayed grant approvals, DOGE, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, false accusations, federal funding, Gabriella Miller Kids First Research Act, HHS, indirect costs, National Institutes of Health, NIH, pause on mass communications and public appearances, TDS, Trump administration, Trump Derangement Syndrome
Posted in Politics |
March 30, 2025
“Until we know all the basic facts about that day, Americans will have no reason to be confident that justice has been served.” — John Daniel Davidson, Senior Editor at The Federalist The events that occurred on Capitol Hill on Jan. 6, 2021, and the question of who is to blame is a divisive and […]
Tags: anti-Trump bias, Brian Sicknick, delayed National Guard deployment, Donald Trump, false allegations, Hillsdale College, House Democrats, Imprimis, January 6 attack on Capitol, John Daniel Davidson, omitted information, Ray Epps, security footage, Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack
Posted in Politics |
March 23, 2025
One of the books I’ve been reading lately is Decision Making God’s Way by Gary T. Meadors. It has some good stuff in it and, as usual, I keep an eye out for sections that might make good articles in themselves. So, this week I have an excerpt that talks about, you guessed it, the […]
Tags: 2 Timothy 3:16.17, Christian scholars, creative constructs, decision-making, direct teaching, Gary Meadors, hermeneutics, implied teaching, prescriptive vs descriptive, reading Bible, record of redemptive history, scriptural commands, theological systems, What is normative?, worldview and values set
Posted in Religion |
March 16, 2025
The other week I posted “My Take on the Sons of God and Nephilim in Genesis 6”, wherein I reviewed four Study Bible commentaries regarding Gen. 6:1-4 (from two previous posts) along with a couple extra sources. This week I’m doing basically the same thing but for a longer passage, Gen. 9:18-29. As before, I […]
Tags: Curse of Canaan, disrespect, Ham's sin, mocking, Noah drunk, Noah naked, sexual assault, weird Bible passage
Posted in Religion |
March 9, 2025
Derick Dickens is a professor, speaker, and writer in the Reformed Presbyterian tradition. He is also a Facebook “friend”, so I see his posts and have cited him at least a couple times on this blog. This week’s “article” is based on Derick’s response to someone else (probably on FB) in a discussion about Calvinist […]
Tags: Augustine, compatibilism, Derick Dickens, determinist philosophy, divine influence, free will, John Stuart Mill, Kantian autonomy, materialism, Reformed theology, sovereignty of God, spiritual regeneration
Posted in Religion |