You may remember the problems I had last year, reviewing books by “Abner Doubleday.” Well, these are the books–Chronicles of the Nephilim, by Brian Godawa–and here’s my review, as published in Chalcedon’s magazine.
https://chalcedon.edu/magazine/a-review-of-chronicles-of-the-nephilim-by-brian-godawa
Given how much I wound up disliking these books, I’d say my review was rather charitable.
And now it’s off to the eye doctor!
New Brunswick Theological Seminary: I walked past this statue every weekday for four years.
In 2004 I interviewed Dr. Norman Kansfield, president of the New Brunswick Theological Seminary (Reformed Church in America), who was about to get sacked by the RCA synod for performing a “gay marriage” for his daughter.
I am posting this today because I want to make it clear to everyone that the Roman Catholic Church is very, very far from being the only church with leaders who reject God’s laws and the clear teaching of the Scriptures. As a high official of the United Methodist Church once told me, “The first thing I learned in seminary was that the Bible is not God’s word.” That remark still makes me shudder.
The rot of this evil age has set into many churches in many denominations. Many of us have given up on the whole idea of an organization called a “church.” And many of us haven’t. Let’s face it: if you’ve got two or more people in it, it’s an organization, however disorganized it may appear to be.
As Ben Franklin once said, “We must all hang together, or surely we will hang separately.”
Thanks to Jill at Chalcedon HQ for retrieving this article for me.
This article is a little long, but stay with it: because Mark Rushdoony nails it.
“Babylon is the kingdom of man,” opposed to the Kingdom of God. It is human beings trying to be gods.
https://chalcedon.edu/magazine/dont-pray-for-the-peace-of-babylon
If your Bible reading has brought you around to Revelation, this essay will be illuminating. It’s a “big picture” view of Revelation–speaking for myself, at least, something which I’m always in danger of losing in the details.
It isn’t every day you get to question a federal department head. My chance came in 2010, to fire a question at Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, and I took it. The article’s kind of long, but you might find it interesting.
https://chalcedon.edu/magazine/messianic-secretary-calls-for-messianic-schools
What interests me the most is just how crazy an enterprise public education is and wants to be. It has an insatiable appetite for our money, and its goal is the total infantilization of the American people.
I reviewed these books for Chalcedon two years ago, the first two “Dragonets of Destiny” novels by Tui T. Sutherland (https://chalcedon.edu/magazine/reviews-of-two-fantasy-novels-by-tui-t-sutherland).
I don’t know what’s worse: the sheer inanity of such novels, their routine Godlessness, or their toxic ideology. I mean, we’re talking about stories in which the characters sing bar songs–and there are no bars! And the young dragons have to kill their parents to get ahead. Yeesh.
What with public schooling, slop culture, social media obsession, and all the rest of it, who can be surprised by the mess we’re in? The wonder is, it isn’t worse.
We can do better than this. Really, we can. Even with Scholastic Books trying to block the way to excellence.
This is another one of those little gems R.J. Rushdoony wrote for “The California Farmer,” this one published in 1972–and still sharply relevant today.
https://chalcedon.edu/resources/articles/lawless-law
These days, we wonder why our laws don’t seem to protect us: why our plethora of gun laws, for instance, doesn’t protect us from school shootings.
“If men are not godly,” Rushdoony wrote, “the best-intentioned laws can serve ungodly and lawless ends.” Makes me think of our so-called immigration laws. Character is more important than any written law.
If people aren’t motivated to obey the laws… they won’t. And you can count on them to twist the laws around for purposes that were never intended when the laws were passed.
King Justin Trudeau, tyrant of Canada
Y’know, I used to be a journalist, and “highly respected journalists” like this clown give the profession a bad name and make me ashamed that I was ever part of it. Canadian “journalist” Marci McDonald’s hatchet job on conservative Christians is about as low as it gets.
What’s changed since I published this eight years ago?
Well, Canada voted out its Conservative Party prime minister and elected Far Left Loony Justin Trudeau… so now they can put you in jail for using the wrong pronoun, and now you have to sign an oath pledging your support for abortion before you can get a summer job–so which side is it, Marci, that “imposes its values” on everybody else?
As if we had to ask!
R.J. Rushdoony wrote this little essay for The California Farmer back in 1976, and it reads like it could’ve been penned just yesterday. Man, some things never change!
https://chalcedon.edu/resources/articles/the-fright-peddlers
It’ll only take you a minute or two to read, and then you tell me: Did he nail it, or what?
One of the photos from the fairy hoax, masterminded by two little girls, that hoodwinked the creator of Sherlock Holmes
A letter from a reader led me into one of the more challenging articles I wrote for Chalcedon’s print magazine, Faith For All of Life. The reader wished to know what we thought of fairies.
https://chalcedon.edu/magazine/christian-reconstruction-and-fairies
It turned out that there was quite a lot to be said about fairies.
(P.S.–Some of you have been asking how you can find the new stuff on Chalcedon’s new improved website. Please be patient! I mean, we’ve just finished making sure we’ve posted all the old stuff, and tagged it, etc.–and that was a big, big job.)
I seem to be making a shambles of this blog today. Somehow my “International Manhunt” post came out twice, in two different forms, and I don’t know how to fix the page. Sigh.
And then there’s what I haven’t done! Namely, my Newswithviews column, which should have been written Monday or Tuesday, but wasn’t–for the excellent reason that it completely slipped my mind. So I will have to hustle one up today. Somehow.
Let me provide you with a Chalcedon magazine article while I wrestle with this beast.
