by ProfDave, ©2021 (Aug. 31, 2021) — One of the first things you learn on your first day of school is where the bathroom is and which one to use. Now, thanks to the Biden administration, the teachers are confused – or at least they are supposed to be. They are not allowed to know […]
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Portland, Ferguson and Watts
by ProfDave, ©2021 (Aug. 26, 2021) — So race riots are back. Some of us thought we had surmounted that fifty years ago. The conscience of Christian America freed the slaves, but failed, for almost a century, to erase prejudice and racial barriers. We finally got serious about Martin Luther King’s dream of Christian unity […]
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Step Two: The Hope of Freedom
by ProfDave, ©2021 (Aug. 23, 2021) — Recovery folks are the only people who really know what freedom is. Because they have truly understood their slavery. What is freedom? For the secularists it is unrestricted expression of their nature – without answering to anyone but themselves. Be yourself. Do it your way. Let it all […]
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American Privilege
by ProfDave, ©2021 (Aug. 19, 2021) — [See Part 1 of this series here.] The Declaration of Independence, the American credo, states that we derive the fundamental freedom to pursue happiness from God, not from government. What our founders meant by ‘happiness’ was a lot more than Disneyland. Basically, the ideal was well-being. Also note […]
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American Privilege
by ProfDave, ©2021 (Aug. 13, 2021) — Hate is never a good thing – even for good reason – but it has been around since the beginning. I renounce “white privilege,” but I am proud of American privilege and believe everyone is entitled to it. Most fundamental of all privileges – and the foundation of […]
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Consenting Adults
by ProfDave, ©2021 (Aug. 12, 2021) — “Nothing is wrong if it’s between consenting adults!” declares one of my young friends. He probably doesn’t realize this is the Playboy slogan from the 60’s – or before. I’m getting heartily tired of it, but I suppose I should answer the question. Why not? Is it true that […]
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Who’s Pulling the Wagon?
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The R-Anon Conspiracy
by ProfDave, ©2021 (Jul. 13, 2021) — Don’t you miss objectivity? We have been hearing about a Q-Anon conspiracy. I don’t know anything about it (don’t really want to) except the left narratives accuse the rest of us of believing in it. Allegedly we believe some secret order of shadowy powerbrokers is pulling all the […]
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Human Dignity and Worth
by ProfDave, ©2021 (Jul. 8, 2021) — Split? Worldview. What do you see when you look at other people? What are they? The ordinary folks, the clerk, the celebrity, the derelict, the veiled woman, the children, the refugee, the stripper, the handicapped, the unborn, the elderly, the weird all have one thing in common. The […]
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Am I God?
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Tale of Two Kingdoms
by ProfDave, ©2021 (Jun. 30, 2021) — Is your pastor preaching on politics? The Johnson Amendment (to the tax code) has muzzled pulpits for half a century and a Christian legal society tried to recruit clergymen to provoke a constitutional challenge. The IRS has not taken the bait. Trump promised to remove the muzzle but […]
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Can You Change the Apple without the Core?
by ProfDave, ©2021 (Jun. 28, 2021) — Some years ago, European courts determined that objections to same-sex marriages are “not core Christian beliefs” [Rose, Austin, “Yet More Christians Silenced in Europe…and America,” Crisis Magazine, January 18, 2013]. What, then, are core Christian beliefs? And, more to the point, who decides what the core beliefs of […]
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Ugly Duckling Updated
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The First Step Towards Wholeness
by ProfDave, ©2021 (Jun. 16, 2021) — Step One: We admitted we were powerless over our addictions and compulsive behaviors, that our lives had become unmanageable. Romans 7:18: “I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot […]
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The Narrative Game; Post-Truth January 6, 2021
by ProfDave, ©2021 (Jun. 15, 2021) — [See previous installments of this series here.] There’s a line in the Serenity Prayer that says, “taking, as Jesus did, this sinful world as it is, not as I would have it.” Post-moderns need recovery – they certainly are not taking the world as it is. If you […]
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The Narrative Game; Post-Truth January 6, 2021
by ProfDave, ©2021 (Jun. 10, 2021) — [Editor’s Note: See previous installments in this series here, here and here.] What really happened on 1/6/21 we will never know. Or rather, we all know different and opposite things. Democratic investigations will conclude one thing and Republican investigations another and no “independent” investigation will be trusted, even […]
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The Narrative Game; Post-Truth January 6, 2021
by ProfDave, ©2021 (Jun. 8, 2021) — Anyone can have a narrative. Under post-modernist theory, facts are formed, selected and rejected according to our narratives. The election of 2020, falling in the midst of a deadly pandemic, was one of the most controversial in our history. Its meaning – even its winner – did not […]
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The Narrative Game; Post-Truth January 6, 2021
by ProfDave, ©2021 (Jun. 3, 2021) —[Editor’s Note: See Part I of this series here.] Since objective news and truth itself have become obsolete, everyone is entitled to his own version of reality, determined by race, class, generation and sexual preferences. We may never know what happened, but we may entertain ourselves with chosen “narratives” […]
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The Narrative Game; Post-Truth January 6, 2021
Round I: Characters by ProfDave, ©2021 (Jun. 1, 2021) — [Warning: message includes shameless sarcasm] There is no use waiting to find out what really happened in Washington, DC, on January 6. We may as well go ahead and guess, like everybody else. The “facts” presented to us by the talking heads on TV and […]