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 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 …
I wrote this essay, “The West’s Religion Problem,” for CGG Weekly on May 13, 2005. “If you instruct the brethren in these things, you will be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished in the words of faith, and of the good doctrine which you have carefully followed.” —I Timothy …
This essay, originally “Eradicating Humanity,” was first published on May 6, 2005, in CGG Weekly. “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.” —I Peter 5:8 When I am not editing someone else’s writing or writing something of …
This CGG Weekly essay, “Do You Believe—Really Believe?” first appeared on April 22, 2005. “Thus you have made the commandment of God of no effect by your tradition.” —Matthew 15:6 The death of Pope John Paul II and the election of Pope Benedict XVI made the Catholic Church—and the Catholic …
I wrote this essay, “Balls and Strikes,” for the CGG Weekly on February 28, 2003. “In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.” —Judges 21:25 When I awoke this morning, I actually remembered my dream. Since that does not happen …
