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A Christian Heart Is Deeply Cynical

On the one hand, rational objectivity is a myth. It’s a myth in the one most important sense that you’ll never see evidence of it when humans make decisions on behalf of others, that thing we call “government policy.” The … Continue reading

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No Virtual Covenant

You know the drill: This blog is a virtual office for my ministry. I can’t do everything, so some things are excluded by necessity. I’m only human. By the same token, you need not buy into everything you see here. … Continue reading

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Plotting against Divine Sovereignty

There is the message, and then we have the methods and means of that message. Were our world not so hostile to heart-led living, we wouldn’t have to waste so much time and effort explaining it. Every blog post holds … Continue reading

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Leaking from the Heart

While whistleblowing is almost pure politics, leaking is a divine art. The Internet itself is pretty deceptive. That is, the same systemic deception you see everywhere else has invaded the Net, in that the coolest and most attractive sites are … Continue reading

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Unintended Confirmations

One of our fundamental teachings here is that God’s character pervades the whole universe. Regardless of apparent facts, you won’t really begin to understand reality until you characterize it on some level as a living thing itself. On some level, … Continue reading

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How Much in Charge?

I’m strictly hands-off on most things. Merely noting that the academic discipline of Comparative Civilizations is often a political boondoggle says so much about our Western Civilization. You would think that folks recognized there is no way to be truly … Continue reading

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BLDJ: Chapter 6

(Serializing here the draft of my book, Biblical Law: Divine Justice.) 6. Far Away Let’s have just a moment of historical review here. So far as anybody can tell, among the current populations of Europe, the oldest occupants were Celts, … Continue reading

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BLDJ: Chapter 5

(Serializing here the draft of my book, Biblical Law: Divine Justice.) 5. Property Unlike Western feudalism, where land was the primary object of ownership and the serfs simply belonged to the land same as animals, ANE feudalism is very personal … Continue reading

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Two Wings of the Same Vulture

It became popular some years ago to refer to the two primary US political parties as the red and blue wings on a doomed aircraft. It didn’t’ matter which color you favored, the destination was the same. Only a fool … Continue reading

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Holy Cynicism: Didn’t Know the Half of It

We didn’t suspect a thing, did we? The eavesdropping was more pervasive than we could have imagined. Think about that for a minute: every cellphone SIM card every chipped ID card every bank card smart chip every hard drive in … Continue reading

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