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 |
March 2, 2025
“Wishing doesn’t make things so. It’s time to get hard-nosed and real about what’s going on so we can stop this nightmare before it spins completely out of control.” — Col. Kurt Schlichter, U.S. Army, Ret. Conservative columnist/commentator Kurt Schlichter — who is also a retired Army colonel and a trial lawyer — put out […]
Tags: bigger threats, Donald Trump, enormous costs of blood and treasure, Kurt Schlichter, mineral reserves, NATO, peace attempts, Russia, Russian invasion of Ukraine, Ukraine War, Vladimir Putin, Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Posted in Politics |
February 23, 2025
Slippery-slopes are all around us, and they can be dangerous. But, the appeal to a slippery-slope fallacy is not always legitimate. To be fair, most people (myself included) are unclear on the types of slippery-slopes and what may or may not make their use a fallacy. On an episode of the STR podcast last year, […]
Tags: Apologetics, bad arguments, born that way, causal slippery-slope, follow the logic to its extreme, Greg Koukl, logical fallacies, logical slippery-slope, reductio ad absurdum, slippery-slope fallacy, Taking the Roof Off
Posted in Politics / Science / Religion, Uncategorized |
February 16, 2025
If the topic revealed in this post’s title sounds somewhat familiar, it may be because roughly a year ago I began my “What to Make of This Weird Bible Passage?” series with the opening lines from Genesis 6. In those posts, I laid out what four of the best Study Bibles had to say about […]
Tags: angel/human hybrid, Book of Enoch, daughters of man, giants after the Flood, giants of Genesis, how tall was Goliath?, human lifespan, Nephilim, sons of God, weird Bible passage
Posted in Religion |
February 9, 2025
It seems that I underestimated the time I needed to write the article I planned to this week. It will have to wait until next week. Meanwhile, I refer you to three articles for your consideration which have been put out by faculty from The Heritage Foundation. Since I’m a bit pressed for time to […]
Tags: Border Czar Tom Homan, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, CPB, heavy demand for electricity, ICE, Inflation Reduction Act, IRA renewables subsidies, leftist bias, mass deportation, misguided climate policy, NPR, PBS, priority for Congress
Posted in Politics |
February 2, 2025
A few more YouTube recommendations for you… Readers may remember that last Fall I wrote two posts in which I shared YouTube channels that I enjoy watching on topics of “Science & Tech” and “Politics & Culture”. This third post rounds out the main topics covered in this blog with “Bible & Religion”. Of course, […]
Tags: Bible doctrines, Bible languages, Bible questions, Christian apologetics, Christian denominations, cultural commentary, DiscipleDojo, Mark Ward, Melissa Dougherty, Study Bible reviews, textual criticism, worldview issues
Posted in Religion |
January 26, 2025
“If we thoughtfully and tenaciously combine populist energy with conservative principles, it is a fight we can win.” — Kevin D. Roberts Kevin D. Roberts, president of The Heritage Foundation and former CEO of the Texas Public Policy Foundation, gave a talk at Hillsdale College last October. As usual, the folks at Hillsdale have adapted […]
Tags: conservatism, constitutional order, Heritage Foundation, Hillsdale College, Imprimis, Kevin D. Roberts, nation of laws, populism, populist conservatism, take the country back, U.S. Constitution, undermine Leftist agenda
Posted in Politics |
January 19, 2025
“Increasingly, the citizen stands denuded before the total state, stripped of the protection of mediating non-civil private institutions and even of the inherited liberties of private civil law.” — Joe Boot In last week’s Part 1, Dr. Joseph Boot commented on failed attempts at church/state/society relationships due to both faulty designs and abuses by those […]
Tags: Abraham Kuyper, Christian world and life view, church and state, civil private law, creational principles, false dilemma, Herman Dooyeweerd, independent jurisdictions, Joseph Boot, kingdom of God, non-civil private law, ordained by God, public law, question of authority, scriptural solution, spheres of law
Posted in Politics, Politics & Religion, Religion |
January 12, 2025
“There has clearly been a radical departure from our Christian moorings in acknowledgement and confession of the sovereignty of God in Jesus Christ for all humanity.” — Joe Boot The book: Ruler of Kings: Toward a Christian Vision of Government (2022) The author: Rev. Dr. Joseph Boot, a British-Canadian pastor, apologist, and cultural theologian I […]
Tags: Abraham Kuyper, Christian world and life view, church and state, creational principles, false dilemma, Herman Dooyeweerd, independent jurisdictions, kingdom of God, question of authority, scriptural solution, social institutions, temporal spheres of life
Posted in Politics, Politics & Religion, Religion |
January 5, 2025
As I did for my first post in 2023, I have considered the AVftR posts of the previous two years and picked the top ones. Specifically, by either the importance of the subject and/or my having written (rather than cited) the bulk of the content, I thought these posts were the best ones I put […]
Tags: blogging, favorite posts, recommended, sample posts, suggested reading, Top 12
Posted in Politics, Politics / Science / Religion, Religion, Science |