Dumb Dogs

The Prophet Jeremiah called the churchmen of his day “dumb dogs” because they refused to bark when danger was approaching. Nowadays bringing this issue up among elders in the church is liable to result in censure, excommunication or maybe even an IRS audit. Notice what the puppet-pastor said in the interview? He claimed the whole [...]

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Nidingswerk

Well, it appears that an old friend has taken it upon himself to go hunting a bounty: After the proprietor at Spiritwaterblood (Many thanks to the faithful Yoeman at the pumps) sets him aright on some of his misconceptions, Sob76 comes back again only to throw about more non-sequiturs. Obviously, my old friend is still [...]

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GIVE US MEN

Well, today’s our moving day– we’re officially taking part in the great Northwest migration. We’re leaving the soured land of California for colder climes and warmer community. As my parting gift I offer this personal favorite, GIVE US MEN.  Give us Men!Men– from every rank,Fresh and free and frank;Men of thought and reading,Men of light [...]

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Conspiracy Theories

This Christmas I stumbled onto a certain conspiracy previously unknown to me; it was a small thing but insidious nonetheless. My daughter and her cousin both received new baby dolls as gifts. The dolls cooed and babbled in that baby sort of way but on the last of their audio sequences the voice suddenly changed [...]

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A Disclaimer

Well howdy once again folks. Its been too long since I dangled my toes in these here blog waters. Those of you who know me are aware of the many distractions which have kept me from posting of late; one such distraction had been a series of dialogues into which I was drawn by some [...]

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The White Man’s Heresy

This weekend past I attended a birthday party for the son of an old friend. I knew the boy’s parents from an Orange County church which I frequented while in High School and College. While the ecclesiastic liberalism of that congregation drove me elsewhere more than a decade ago, I always took their social moors [...]

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A Tale of Two Cities: My Jeremiad

My early years were largely spent divided between two southern California cities: Paramount and Porterville. Paramount lies inside of Los Angeles County while Porterville sits amid the endless stretches of farmland of the San Joaquin Valley in Tulare County. Despite their historic differences they quite inexplicably fell into the same patterns of entropy and consequently [...]

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A Sleeper Story

This has surprisingly remained a sleeper story: Three men stand accused of burning down a Mosque. They are apparently Christian Identity adherents following the prerogatives of the Phineas Priesthood. I may not be a member of the Christian Identity movement but neither do I consign them to a de facto heretic status. Many of them [...]

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God, Catechism & Fairy Tales

Every night when my boys recite their catechism we end the session with a family catechism all our own: I ask, “Who are we?”They respond, “We’re Macleods.” (Pseudonym) I continue, “And whom do we fear?” They return, “No man, only God.”The order of this ritual is essential if admittedly simplistic; in order for us to [...]

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Inheritance

There’s a boy I know; his mother claims to know precisely who his father is but the paternity tests say otherwise. Though the child had no hand in wrongdoing himself, we haven’t any terms for someone like him which aren’t negative —“Illegitimate”, “Fatherless”, “Bastard”, etc. Before such an individual even had the chance do to [...]

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