Who will replace Jerry Falwell Jr.? History allows us to guess. Falwell’s “indefinite” leave may result in a return to power but that appears unlikely. The efforts to oust him look like the case of Paige Patterson two years ago. Many watched in amazement and horror as this “conservative resurgence” Baptist was overthrown using devious…
Continue readingLiberty’s future is predictable based on the 2018 Paige Patterson case
Professor Mike Adams (University of North Carolina, Wilmington) has died. I wrote this piece about his death and why conservatives should treat it as a clarion call. We need substantial action plans now. Below are the texts of four articles I wrote on American Thinker on education. There are a lot of solid points here.…
Continue readingDear Donald Trump: We Need a Commission on Persecution in Education
There are reasons that Christians don’t stand up to evil. Understandable, but unjustifiable reasons.
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Three big takeaways from Trump’s speech: cancel culture, far-left fascism, and cultural revolution.
Continue readingThe History behind Trump’s Mt. Rushmore Speech
Below is the précis of a book I’ve been working on about the rise and fall of universal languages. Statement of Aims: Spirituality, Language, and History Solomon advises us in Proverbs 3:5, “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding.” Why is Solomon so worried about human beings…
Continue readingTraumatizing the Tongue: Why Universal Languages Collapse
Burn me once, shame on you. Burn me twice, shame on me. That’s the age-old nugget of wisdom that people have struggled with, since as long as humans had language. Do you remember the old scenario with Lucy Van Pelt and Charlie Brown, in the comic strip Peanuts? Lucy would promise Charlie Brown that she…
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Chapter I Monuments, Totems and the Veneratio Antiquitatis The prologue of the Passion of Perpetua and Felicity, a narrative about the martyrdom of two Christian women in Africa in 202 CE, begins with this statement about the nature of a text’s authority and its antiquity: If the old exemplars of faith, which testify to the…
Continue readingWhat I wrote about monuments and totems in 2002 (when I was liberal)
It’s hard to believe 10 years have passed since I wrote this paper. I was on my way out of the military at the time. I presented this at an Ethnic Studies conference in early 2011. After receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in December 1964, Martin Luther King Jr. showed a dramatic change in…
Continue readingOn Not Loving Monuments. This is what I wrote ten years ago
“Conspiracy theorist!” Like the now-banned words “retard” and “lunatic,” the charge of conspiracy theorist is a classically Soviet slur. It is designed to make you think that your judgement is so distorted that nothing you conclude about the world could possibly be real. “Conspiracy theorist” is akin to calling someone an enemy of peace and…
Continue readingConspiracy as theory and practice: How much of 2020 has been pure coincidence?
Ralph Ellison’s 1952 novel Invisible Man is a Molotov cocktail. It presents a complex legacy of America’s racial history. The book’s length and experimental prose style make it dizzying. But that’s arguably the point: America has been driven so crazy by its irresolvable racial grudges that the only truthful response to racial problems is dizziness.…
