In December 2014, over 2,800 atheists responded to a challenge to rewrite the Decalogue (Ten Commandments) with modern, humanist alternatives. After collating and condensing the submissions, thirteen judges voted on the top ten atheist Ten Commandments - or perhaps to avoid the hierarchical implications of the word, we ought to call them Suggestments. I would … Continue reading First Suggestment
Author: Tim Constant
A Study In Scarlet: Investigations in Communion Wine, Part 7
Juice in the Dock As we end our exploration into the history and symbology of communion drink, our only remaining task is to summon grape juice to the dock and pump it for answers. Because the sacrament of the Lord’s Supper is at the very center of our worship, and because of the Biblical principle … Continue reading A Study In Scarlet: Investigations in Communion Wine, Part 7
Running Thoughts #26
America is not a nation founded by immigrants; it is a nation founded by settlers. The latter relocate to begin a society where there is not one, the former leaves an established society to join a pre-existing one. Pilgrims and Puritans, for example, established a society into which the Irish, for example, immigrated to. The … Continue reading Running Thoughts #26
Running Thoughts #25
The physical brain functions according to the laws of biology, physics, and chemistry. The immaterial mind functions according to the rules of faith (in the form of axioms), logic (reasoning from those axioms), and symbolism (the referents to express reasoning).
Diaper Drama
My daughter (13) and son (16) attended a homeschool dance last night. Yes, homeschoolers have dances, and from what I am told they are heavily monitored with moms perched like hawks along the perimeter of the dance floor, vigilant for scurrying sins. Debriefing the evening afterward, my kids spun tales of young hearts spurned, hot … Continue reading Diaper Drama
Running Thoughts #24
Unto us a Son is given — the son of the virgin, the Eternal Logos formed in flesh; He is Immanuel, not only on account of his miraculous conception, but because of his eternal generation, the Word, who was in the beginning with God, had glory with the Father from before the worlds and loved by Him, and through him created all worlds and … Continue reading Running Thoughts #24
Running Thoughts #23
Poems cannot be translated into prose straight across without massacring the meaning. It is like dissecting a cat to find its curiosity. Juice is the prosaic diction of the poetic wine. It is a mistranslation. They may be homonyms; they are not synonyms. They're is a difference.
A Love That Can Hate
Introduction A number of weeks back, some of the guys out at New Saint Andrews (NSA), a Christian college up in Idaho, released an advertisement geared toward attracting a certain kind of young man. The video was fashioned after an ad Ernest Shackleton posted in a London paper for his Antarctica expedition in 1913, which you can see … Continue reading A Love That Can Hate
Running Thoughts #22
"Because of this, take up the complete armor of God, so that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all things, to stand." Ephesians 6:13 Evil assaults Christians seasonally, crashing against the phalanx of shields interlinked. We are to withstand it, give it no purchase, not one square inch. … Continue reading Running Thoughts #22
Running Thoughts #21
Definitions, among other benefits, let you know what you can do with a thing and what you cannot - they provide parameters for proper use and function. When a society cannot define a woman, then it cannot define a man, then it cannot define what is a human. If you happen to be a human, … Continue reading Running Thoughts #21
Thought Butter 