Quality interweb mischief from Jared Bridges
I was reading Carl F. H. Henry’s The Uneasy Conscience of Modern Fundamentalism last night and something was bothering me—Henry used the terms “evangelical” and “fundamentalist” interchangeably. If I were reading the book in 1947 when Henry wrote it, I wouldn’t have any problem with that—the terms meant the same thing in 1947. Today, however, … Read more
My mother-in-law, who works for his office, sent me a great article on U.S. Congressman Zach Wamp (R-Tenn.) in The Hill today. The article chronicles Wamp’s personal changes from a drug addict to the God-fearing man he is today, and is an inspiring read. Wamp, who incidentally was one of only two congressmen in 2003 … Read more
Each Tuesday, until I decide otherwise, TruePravda will feature a different book in the Books That Haunt series. Human reactions to adverse situations are varied. There are some who whine and pitch frenzied fits for as long as they can; some who become enshrouded in bitterness and allow that to motivate them; there are others … Read more
When I was in college, as an advertising major, we used to spend our post-Superbowl class periods discussing the ads during the game. We would try to see how many we could recall (naming all the commercials we could remember with no aids) as opposed to the ones we could merely recognize. I can recall … Read more
“In the beginning was the image, and the image was with God, and the image was God.” Of course, that’s not how it John 1:1 goes exactly, but considering how the visual image has replaced the written word it doesn’t sound so peculiar when aligned with today’s culture. This veneration of the visual image is … Read more
Stanley Kurtz’s article in the Weekly Standard frighteningly shows how the decline of marriage (and subsquent allowance of gay marriage) has virtually destroyed the concept of the family in Scandinavian countries: SCANDINAVIA has long been a bellwether of family change. Scholars take the Swedish experience as a prototype for family developments that will, or could, … Read more
We all have our rare, peculiar hobbies. One hobby I’ve had for more years than I can remember is the collecting of matchbooks. When I was a teenager I started picking up matchbooks from my favorite restaurants. When our family went on vacation I really “racked up.” My dad began aiding the collection by picking … Read more
Jonah Goldberg on “undecided” voters: No, I’m not saying that all undecideds are dumb, and I’m not saying that the choices in presidential elections are as cut-and-dried as the strawberry ice cream versus the garden-rake smack. But what I am saying is that the rush to show one’s independence of mind in contests between Republican … Read more
Each Tuesday, until I decide otherwise, TruePravda will feature a different book in the Books That Haunt series. Flannery O’Connor has always been an author whose writings have intrigued me. I first learned of her in an American Literature class in college. One of the volumes of the colossal Norton Anthology of American Literature had … Read more
The recent row at the Vatican regarding Mel Gibson’s The Passion is nothing short of strange. The “final word” given by Archbishop Stanislaw Dziwisz was that, “I told the producers the Holy Father did not make any judgment, because he does not make judgments of that kind.” If, therefore, the Pope does not make judgments … Read more