A View from the Right Science, POLITICS, & Religion

In case you hadn’t heard, Joshua Harris (no relation), one of the leading lights of “purity culture”, is no longer promoting the practices he wrote about in the popular I Kissed Dating Goodbye (1997/2003). But, this is only part of the serious and surprising changes going on with Harris. Harris would follow up that first […]

“MINAHASA: an Indonesian people inhabiting the Minahasa Peninsula of northeast Sulawesi” — Merriam-Webster Do you ever get really grossed out when you see or hear what certain other cultures eat? Certainly, missionaries and other visitors from one part of the world to another will encounter some “delicacies” that seem awfully strange, even disgusting. Why is […]

I didn’t post one in June, but this week I’d like to continue my series of excerpts from Hugh Ross’s book A Matter of Days, 2nd ed., about scientific measurements for distance and, especially, time (e.g., the age of the Earth and certain things on it). Whereas in May we looked at radiometric dating, this […]

“Forty years ago, Liam Neeson roamed in Black neighbourhoods across Northern Ireland looking for an innocent Black man to attack—a Black man like me….”  — Samuel Sey I have recently become aware of the writings of Samuel Sey at the Slow To Write blog. Sey is a Ghanaian-born Canadian who writes with brutal honesty — […]

“It seems anything this president does or tries to do, Democrats object and go after him for — and that’s just wrong. It’s gotten so tiresome.”  — a New York-based attendee, father of four and a military veteran No sooner had Trump announced the “A Salute to America” event in Washington, D.C. and that he […]

“The truth is that Iran and the United States are now engaged in a great chess match. But the stakes are not those of intellectual gymnastics. The game is no game, for it involves the lives, and possible deaths, of thousands.”  — Victor Davis Hanson, noted author/historian/professor For the past couple days, the biggest Trump […]

MORES (pronounced like “morays”): “folkways of central importance accepted without question and embodying the fundamental moral views of a group”  — Webster’s Dictionary Bible reading can be… confusing, at times. And, even when it doesn’t seem to be, sometimes we misunderstand what is actually being advised, commanded, described, or otherwise referred to. One of the […]

“[I]t seems to me to be very unfair; it’s called freedom of speech.”  — President Trump to CNN Just to be clear up front, the particular “problematic” women I’m referring to are not those who are actually a problem for the President — e.g., Omarosa or Stormy or Nancy. Rather, I’m talking about influential women […]

“If you think President Trump is a terrible person and you’re mad that a pastor chose to pray for him, then you need to swiftly reexamine the gospel message — and your own heart. Trump’s sin should not deflect our desire and responsibility to pray for Him — indeed the more sin we observe the […]

“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”  — Jeremiah 29:11 (NIV) God’s Word is filled with words of wisdom, encouragement, and comfort, primarily for those who put their trust in Him. Unfortunately, many […]