Our lightning access to the collective knowledge of the world through the Internet comes with a sewage pipe emptying into our living rooms. Most attentive parents are careful what kinds of images flicker in their kids’ faces, and have dammed the gaping goop hole with blockers and restrictions, though it is impossible to plug up … Continue reading Ear Porn
Author: Tim Constant
An Intervention
Then he went home, and the crowd gathered again, so that they could not even eat. And when his family heard it, they went out to seize him, for they were saying, “He is out of his mind.” Mark 3:20-21 (ESV) "Either you are crazy, or we are all screwed. It's just easier this way." We … Continue reading An Intervention
Straight Straits
Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few. Matthew 7:13-14 (ESV) The Broad and Narrow Way To … Continue reading Straight Straits
Things that happened
A short story There were spiders, I remember. Not the delicate ones that spin modestly in unbothered corners. These were the fat, grape bellied browns that spanned the posts on the front porch and made you duck your way into the house. And there was the cemetery on the other side of the fence. Thats … Continue reading Things that happened
Trivial Pursuit
Introduction I'm going to play with a couple of Latin words here because each has a peculiar angle on a root word I want to ricochet off. And since Latin is a dead language I don't think it will mind if I dissect and sew a couple of meanings together. If you were a fishmonger's … Continue reading Trivial Pursuit
A Sense of Scale
Introduction A few years back I had my mind blown out watching a video of the relative sizes of stars in our universe. Zooming out from the Earth, the Sun quickly diminished our tiny blue marble, but itself was dwarfed by incomprehensibly massive hyper-giants in the far reaches of the heavens, which are only the … Continue reading A Sense of Scale
The Universal Solvent
Get some leaves! Introduction As a nurse, I get paid to know normal. A busted forearm is easy to spot because I am an expert in normal forearms. Come to the ER with your skin the color of Homer Simpson, and I know you got yourself a bum liver, because I know normal livers. You … Continue reading The Universal Solvent
The Necessity Of Invention
Westminster Shorter Catechism Q7 asks: Q. 7. What are the decrees of God?A. The decrees of God are, his eternal purpose, according to the counsel of his will, whereby, for his own glory, he hath foreordained whatsoever comes to pass - Westminster Shorter Catechism Basically this means that God does whatever comports with His own … Continue reading The Necessity Of Invention
That Darkness Shall Not Overcome
Introduction One of the assumptions taken for granted living in modern times is the fact we are living in modern times. We know it is 2022 and round about that many years ago time pivoted from counting down the BCs and began climbing into the ADs. But the people living around that time had no … Continue reading That Darkness Shall Not Overcome
Interview: Marriage And Society
The following is an interview with Paul McKinney, PA, discussing his secular reasoning for why marriage is good for society. Thought Butter: Well, shall we begin? Paul McKinney: Let's do it. TB: Ok, thanks for being here with me and being willing to share your thoughts on marriage and society. As you made clear in … Continue reading Interview: Marriage And Society
