Monthly Archives: September 2026
It Started With 80 John
This blog started with an article in the May 2024 Texas Monthly entitled The Former Slave Who Became a Cowboy, a Rancher, and a Texas Legend. Daniel Webster Wallace became “80 John” because that was his brand. In this article by W.K. Stratton, … Continue reading
Is Always Means Is Even In Metaphors
I became panicked recently because I could not remember why “is always means is even in metaphors” and more specially how this applied to the all-important words of our Lord “This is My Body.” With so many, particularly LCMS pastors, … Continue reading
Agatha Christie Feminist or Lutheran?
In reading Luck Worsley Agatha Christie: An Elusive Woman, I can’t tell if she’s a feminist, a Lutheran, neither, some, or both. Two things I don’t like about this book is that while Agatha Christie never said that any of … Continue reading
From the Well of Feminism Totalitarianism Will Come
Make no mistakes men have dug that well. In 1997 I asked and answered Why is Feminism So Hard to Resist?: because we are all feminized. Not in the good way that Chesterton said all men are by virtue of … Continue reading