Ancient Jerusalem as painted by James Tissot, ca. 1890. The writers of the four canonical Gospels arranged their texts with purpose in mind. It has been said that, for Luke, “theology does not so much order narrative as arise from it.”[1] If this is true, the structure of Luke’s story of the life of Jesus is …
Mushrooms with thyme and onions
An original recipe by Rod Benson I was browsing social media this morning when I saw a photograph of a plate of food posted by my friend Berni. Fried mushrooms! Sour cream! Thyme! BACON!!! What's not to like? So I created this recipe to make it my own. Serves 4 Preparation time: 5 minutes Cooking …
The underbelly of the American self-conscious
Donald Trump is the third sitting U.S. President to be impeached. Photo credit: CTV News The founding Calvinist idea of mankind’s innate depravity due to original sin has been reborn in the 21st century and adapted to the left’s insistence on the innate depravity of the ruling class: the wickedness of the patriarchy, of “white …
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J.R.R. Tolkien on anarchism
Strangely, this quote is my blog’s most popular post: J.R.R. Tolkien on anarchism
Knowledge of the past
“Most of all, perhaps, we need intimate knowledge of the past. Not that the past has any magic about it, but because we cannot study the future, and yet need something to set against the present, to remind us that the basic assumptions have been quite different in different periods and that much which seems …
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