Category Archives: For Anyone who dares
Effeminacy and the Liturgy
Reading The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, I discovered I might not know the real meaning of effeminacy. It doesn’t mean weak or even sissified to the author of that work.
Acting for God
“The more genuine and deeper our community becomes, the more will everything else between us recede, the more clearly and purely will Jesus Christ and his work become the one and only thing that is vital between us” Life … Continue reading
More on Kakistocracy
Kakistocracy is “government by the worst men in the state: opposed to aristocracy” (Webster’s New Universal Unabridged Dictionary, 995). I believe in an earlier blog I made mention of this and how I perceived it to be true of all … Continue reading
Animal Tales
I don’t like Veggie Tales; they are a memorable but moralistic retelling of Bible stories that many Christians think are good for children. Vegetables are but Veggie Tales aren’t. The behavior they teach isn’t distinctively Christian. Muslims, Jews, and Mormons … Continue reading
Fancy Let Herself Down
Bobbie Gentry first recorded the song in 1969; most know the Reba McEntire remake of 1990, but no matter who sings it Fancy says the same schizophrenic thing. A woman can give up her body and still be true to … Continue reading
Private Confessions and Public Movies
In the movie Sleepers young teens sneak into the priest=s side of the confessional to hear a nice looking woman=s confession. They are astounded when she acknowledges that they are not the priest but confesses her sins anyway. She unburdens her soul … Continue reading
The Myth of Sexual Moral Neutrality
There it is on a list of 60 or so clubs at my daughters’ high school. Amid the Chess Club, Karate Club, Astronomy Club, Powerlifting Club, and Robot Club is the Gay and Straight Alliance Club. With straight faces we … Continue reading
Quibbling is better than not Knowing
This is off-color, but there is often pointed truth in ribald humor.
Is it a sin not to Vote?
On February 5, 2008 the Reverend Paul McCain of the LCMS Concordia Publishing House wrote the following in his blog. “Did you vote today? I almost did not. Then I realized that not voting is a sin.
The Papacy with Lots of Beane
No real Texan believes that chili is chili if it has beans. I am no Texan, so I don’t know about chili, but I do know about the papacy and no matter how much Beane is added to it, it’s … Continue reading