“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.” — Inigo Montoya, The Princess Bride I wanted to strangle him! It was my Senior year in college and I was one presentation away from graduating with my long-awaited, and hard-earned Bachelor of Science degree. Four long years of study and thousands of dollars spent…
It was just a kiss. That is all it was, one simple kiss. Two people were in a full embrace, lips locked, arms entwined, but it went no further because at that exact moment the two lovers were being watched by the heartbroken husband of the lady. The Beloved Queen Guinevere was caught stealing a secret kiss with Lancelot of…
“Now that is the way to do it!” Gushed Slipjaw the Shameful from the Third Order of Sheol. Following the news that the new Supreme Court nominee, Ketanji Brown Jackson, is close to securing the open judicial position, a firestorm of Twitter activity has erupted from the bowels of the demonic realm. On the heels of Jackson’s refusal to define…
Why are people so impressed with evil? Does it really take a brilliant mind to create perversity? Do you remember Sid Phillips from the Pixar movie, Toy Story? His pleasure in life was terrorizing his little sister by taking her toys and using them to perform perverse operations on. He would tear off baby heads and attach them to steel…
Is there such a thing as being “Too Online” these days? Can’t we just be done with disagreeing? If you would ask the popular consensus, most people would say that both sides on the political/philosophical spectrum need to quit arguing and just agree. Right? Because as the old saying goes, “It takes two to tango.” But I would submit, sometimes,…
This may be the most important question for our times, “Can a lie be taken as communication?” This was the core query that was wrestled within the 1970 book by German philosopher, Josef Pieper, “Abuse of Language, Abuse of Power.” The book discussed how this question has always plagued human understanding. Are people using language to actually “convey reality for…
It is always a straw that breaks the camel’s back. For me, the straw that broke mine was a silly twelve-minute YouTube video called, The Lord of the Rings Superfans Review The Rings of Power Official Teaser Trailer. I happened to be watching a podcast on YouTube and a clip concerning the upcoming Amazon Prime series was suggested as something…
I have tried to write an opening sentence for this post seventeen times in the last four weeks. I write, read, then erase. Delete, delete, delete. Is it a bad case of writer’s block? No, not really. But rather it is the byproduct of a lack of quiet and focused concentration because I have been distracted and undisciplined. Here is…
"Whoever sheds human blood, by humans shall their blood be shed; for in the image of God has God made mankind." (Genesis 9:6) What is the estimated price of bearing God’s image? Is the human body really worth that much? I have once heard that if all things were being weighed equally the fair market value for a healthy body…
So you haven’t heard of the term “exvangelical?” Don’t worry, you will, all in good time. If you look closely enough online, search between the bookshelves of your local Christian bookstore, follow the trending hashtags on Twitter, or even beat down the bushes in your own neighborhood, you will see that exvangelicals are sprouting up like morel mushrooms in the…