Assistant Village Idiot

My son has a post on this . It is a concept foreign to me. When I went on first dates – just south of 40 years ago now – my thinking was n...

There has been some disappointment that I would run such an oversimplified, canned post in support of the Bush Administration (just below). ...

It's simple.

It has become so automatic to declare that the world is changing, ever more rapidly, so that "change itself is changing," that har...

I have myself passed on the speculation that each of the Chronicles of Narnia is intentionally designed to represent one of the Seven Deadly...

A Martian visiting my church would conclude that we worship wood grain and green leaves. A co-worshiper likened it to a worship space for g...

Benny Hinn Ministries has instructed YouTube to remove a video my son uploaded that mentions Hinn. The claim is that there is copyright inf...

Other than the obviously fascinating topic, there's not much stunning in this study. A small correlative effect, with little clue as t...

Today I attended the funeral of a woman I had not seen for decades. She was a childhood friend of my mother’s, loyal to my mother at a time...

Update: Now that I have done some actual writing about the Emerging Church, I am bringing the stories forward again. I think they will mea...

The "Pops" posting was an announcement that my daughter-in-law will give birth to our first grandchild around Thanksgiving. Nana ...

I read the words “Portable Faith” intended as a disparagement recently. It was an emerging church commenter criticising seeker-friendly and...

Okay, I wouldn't read any more commentary about Don Imus either. But Ben asked me to say something, and it has been bouncing around in...

Amidst all the encomiums to David Halberstam, it is well to remember that he didn't get the facts right. His technique was to interview...

Just to keep my streak going, I throw in a dig at postmodernists at the end. We use a form of self-fulfilling prophecy to train the young, o...

The web commentary today is that while conservatives hold their own on certain parts of the web, the internet in general tends leftward and ...

Now that I have half-formed my own EC opinions, I will now turn to the DA Carson book that is somewhat critical of the emerging church. Per...

I shall be known as "Pops." I like it.

The Red Sox swept the Yankees. Life is good. I don't get too excited about it, because they always disappoint in the end. There's...

The banning of DDT in 1972 has caused 1,000,000 deaths a year. Those are deaths of human beings, mostly children, to malaria; not birds to...