The Wandering Heretic

I used to have a porn problem. No, not the kind of problem you are thinking of right now. Instead, I had a porn spam problem. Hundreds, indeed thousands, of comments with links to pornography sites were attaching themselves to this blogsite. Nor was I alone in this attack. Apparently Real Live Preacher had much [...]

Warning: Don’t use this series of posts on the Millennium and Preterism as ammunition against the Preterist (or “Full Preterist”) eschatology. As I noted previously, Rev. 20:1-10 presents problems in almost every theology. We even define the main eschatological theories by these chapters (Pre-Millennial, A-Millennial, and Post-Millennial). Only Preterism does not have “Millennial” in its [...]

Last Lectures are the in thing right now. A book entitled The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch was a runaway hit on Amazon. At my old college, some brave professors participated in a program called “The Last Lecture Series.” In this series, they were to give a lecture to those attending as if it were [...]

Déjà vu: The ultimate “been there, done that.” For most people, déjà vu is a feeling, an uncanny impression that you have been in a place before, or met someone before, or generally been in a certain situation before; although you have no current recollection of it. It has been the rather tenuous basis for [...]

And don’t think I am protected since I don’t live in Canada. After all, Mark Stein is living in America and he was charged via the Canadian Human Rights Commission with publishing “hate speech” in a Canadian magazine. Also, many Canadians are being charged even if Americans post supposedly “hate filled” comments on their websites [...]

(For the record, the church I discuss below is not where where my daughter graduated. In case this institution wishes to punish those who homeshool within their walls based on this post, please note that I do not attend there. We merely had some friends who graduated on the day discussed and we went to [...]

Somewhere along the path of Ohio legislative sausage-making, House Bill 333 was transformed into House Bill 545. HB545 (ne. HB333) was the legislation I wrote extensively about that limited the interest rates that could be charged by Payday Lenders in the State of Ohio. The bill was signed into Law on June 2, 2008 by [...]

Solid Gold? Read below if you are too young to get the joke.

In my mental exercise or excursus into the benefits of the Christian/Enlightenment dichotomic dance that buttresses the American Experience, I listed several witnesses of the dangers a divorce between the two influences engenders. My first draft of that post had six instances; the final version—if for nothing other than length—had four. I now present the [...]

I am going to make a historic/philosophical proposition that is generalized beyond the bounds of forgiveness. That scope will not make it less true, however. Freedom as a political reality was brought about by the turbulent marriage of Reformation Christianity and the Enlightenment. On its own, Christianity made a great deal of progress in granting [...]