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I write about politics; I write about Christianity; I live in New York. As much as I don’t want to, I feel I need to write something about the same-sex marriage law that was recently passed here. I can almost all but guarantee I’m going to offend someone — won’t this be fun. Some will [...]

This past month one of the books I read was the story Pilgrim Progress’s: A Journey from this World to the Next Delivered on the Similitude of a Dream. I had heard this story multiple times before — it’s almost impossible for any boy growing up in Christian home and attending a Sunday School at [...]

I was asked about my thoughts in response to Russell Moore’s post about the recent Glenn Beck Rally, and the conversation it sparked on his website. This was my reply.
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This is a tricky topic for me to comment on because I’m not really familiar with Glenn Beck. Furthermore, outside of perusing a few articles [...]

The Irish Nationalist Danial O’Connell is credited with the pointed saying:
“Let me write the songs of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws.”
In the abstract, what he is communicating is, the very relevant, point that the music of a society has the ability to more appropriately capture the mood of a people [...]

I saw an interesting tag line associated with a member of a forum I frequently visit this morning. The line read: “Punish the deserving.” Setting aside the fact that this line was associated to a video game forum, and in all likely hood was put there by some thirteen year old, it does open up [...]