Profaned Among the Nations

The Second Commandment, that of not taking the Lord’s name in vain, is, like all the Ten Commandments, a summary of a deeper, tangled web of sinful thoughts, actions and tendencies which plague fallen humanity. For example, we all know…

The Great Regression

Recently I decided to torture myself for my Lenten Penance by reading another “exposé” by Vice, which has fallen so far from what actual journalism they used to do almost a decade ago in regard to the Islamic State and…

Apology Tours

RULE 4: “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.” Saul Alinky, Rules for Radicals One of the torments of living in a culture that denies the concept of personal sin is having to grapple with the…

Linguistic Inflation

One of the occupational hazards of writing is that you can be reasonably certain that someone, somewhere, at some time has either had the thought you have had, or has come eerily close. Being a bit of a finance and…