Category Archives: For Anyone who dares
“These are Men Who Jump and Die”
For weeks, maybe months, in 1966 while my mom was shopping for groceries I was at the soda fountain in the Muir’s drug store with my father listening as Barry Saddler sang the “Ballad of the Green Berets.” One of … Continue reading
History in the Making
Have you noticed how many people get their history from the History Channel? Isn’t that a bit like getting sex from the Playboy Channel?
The Road to Perdition is Paved by Antichrists
I feel sorry for the LGBT community – if “community” is what a group of people who prey on each other sexually can be called. Right up till June 26, though we celebrated them in song and on screen, though … Continue reading
Surprised by Surprised by Joy
I think I know why Surprised by Joy is not spoken of as much as other works by C. S. Lewis. It’s his defense, apologetic, explanation, or toleration of homosexuality. Having leveled such a charge I surely must put up … Continue reading
The Voyage of the Damned
This is the title of a 1976 movie and 1974 book based on a true WWII era event. A ship with over 900 Jews sailed from Germany to Cuba in 1939 because of the rising tide of anti-Semitism. Cuba wouldn’t … Continue reading
Justin Long-Lived
That wasn’t his nom de guerre. Martyr was. There was a reason for that. He was an apologist not a satirist. About the same time Justin Martyr was making a defense for the Christian faith Juvenal was satirizing the Roman … Continue reading
Chances Are
In the late 1950s Johnny Mathis sang “Chances Are.” I’ve never liked that song. Though it ends with the line “The chances are your chances are awfully good!” I always thought there shouldn’t be … Continue reading
Fear This?
Ebola is the sum of all current fears. It’s zombies come alive; it’s the outbreak scenarios films have warned us of; it’s the pandemic Big Brother has promised is surely coming. Be afraid; be very afraid. We’re on the Eve … Continue reading
A Brief Statement about the Brief Statement
Had not the Brief Statement been adopted by the LCMS in 1932 there would not have been the Statement of the Forty-Four in 1945. Yet though confessionals bang the Brief Statement gong loudly and even LCMS, Inc. will appeal to … Continue reading
Scratch a Fund Raiser and You’ll Smell a Pietist
That’s probably too strident, stringent, harsh even. But you Waltherians can blame Walther for getting me to think along such clamorous lines. He says in Law and Gospel that there are only two groups that humanity can be separated into … Continue reading