Assistant Village Idiot

Peter gets praised by Jesus for perceiving early on, even before the Holy Spirit has descended, that he is the Christ, the son of the Living...

Lewis's approach, likely descending from his analytic gifts, is to notice where the misconception and muddled thinking is and clear that...

 

An Unfortunate Number of Lawn Ornaments In our search to downsize, we looked at townhouses, small houses, and apartments, but nothing ...

Our friend, the father of one of our closest friends, died in the NH Veterans Home in Tilton today at 102 years old, of CoVid. One can quibb...

 While looking for something else I saw my whole month of posts for January 2011. It was the month that Jared Loughner shot Gabby Giffords,...

 After my post on traditional worship, it occurred to me that someone might have put the various pieces from the old "Red Book" up...

 

This is not how reasoning is done.  You don't start by assuming that the election was basically fair and just dismissing all complaints....

In the Ransom series, the number of self-deceived people in the first two books is small, because the number of characters is small. In Out ...

The update from the NH Veterans Home is that they are up to 20 deaths.  Our 102-year-old friend is still alive, but failing. It's tough ...

Just some links to Lewis giving examples of people deceiving themselves. I will comment going forward, but it's better to let the man sp...

 

 I used the phrase in the last post, and I think people get what I am saying and roughly assent to it. But our impression is still often str...

 My son's podcast this week (First Methodist Houston, Episode 97) was a discussion of the false dichotomy of traditional versus contemp...

Though David French's new piece on Christian Celebrity is not based on CS Lewis, he is referenced and quoted, and I thought it a propos...

The opinion pieces I see referenced from the NY Times, the New Yorker, Slate, etc seem to have become a sort of genre fiction, like romances...

  This is sometimes an Alto-Soprano duet, because of the range. She's not the only one who does this by any means, but it's still a...

Not at all like a goose-step, actually. This is a traveling act from the Netherlands.  You can have them at your festival, if you like.  Wel...

I see over at Althouse that the idea of a straight actor playing a gay person is called "gayface" and is now forbidden. It is rap...