This essay appeared in the CGG Weekly on August 25, 2006, as “A World Turned Upside-Down.” “Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!” —Isaiah 5:20 God thunders in Isaiah 5:20, “Woe …
I wrote this essay, “The Importance of Parenting,” for the CGG Weekly on July 28, 2006. “And you, fathers [parents], do not provoke your children to wrath, but bring them up in the training and admonition of the Lord.” —Ephesians 6:4 Over the past few days, columnist John Derbyshire has …
This essay, titled “Why We Homeschool,” appeared in the CGG Weekly of July 14, 2006. “Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.” —Proverbs 22:6 Back in the early years of the homeschooling phenomenon, its advocates were …
This essay, originally “Slowly but Surely?” appeared in the June 16, 2006, issue of CGG Weekly. “. . . lest Satan should take advantage of us; for we are not ignorant of his devices.” —II Corinthians 2:11 Common wisdom posits that given enough time, water runoff can reduce even the …
This essay appeared in CGG Weekly as “The Frustrations of Good Men” on June 2, 2006. “. . . and the Lord said to [the angel], “Go through the midst of Jerusalem, and put a mark on the foreheads of the men who sigh and cry over all the abominations …
I wrote this essay, “America’s Imminent Perfect Storm,” for CGG Weekly on May 19, 2006. After fifteen years, the same stormclouds, now darker, swirl about us. “[For behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, takes away from Jerusalem and from Judah] the mighty man and the man of war, the …
This essay, “Arguments Over Words,” was published in CGG Weekly on May 12, 2006. “. . . he is proud, knowing nothing, but is obsessed with disputes and arguments over words, from which come envy, strife, reviling, evil suspicions, . . .” —I Timothy 6:4 During my daily commute to …
This essay was first published in CGG Weekly on May 5, 2006. The last few issues of Biblical Archeology Review (BAR) have reminded me why I canceled my subscription in frustration several years ago. Whether it is an article on who “the disciple whom Jesus loved” was or one about the possibility of …
