Caffeinated Thoughts

4 min read 2022-04-22 18:30:00

Deconstructing Deconstruction

For the past several years the popularity of Critical Race Theory and some of its companion ideas have become popular topics of discussion. They are

2 min read 2022-04-21 18:30:00

“Anthropology is the defining issue of the 21st century.” – Joe Rigney Last month Joe Rigney, who is John Piper’s successor as the new

3 min read 2022-04-21 03:11:20

There is only one geometric normal: perpendicular, at a right (90 degree angle). If you are building a wall, check to be sure the wall is normal

2 min read 2022-03-02 23:22:33

Watching President Joe Biden’s first State of the Union address last night, I was struck by how it yo yo-ed between the inspirational and rank

6 min read 2022-01-11 23:33:15

While mouthing the words of the Biblical injunction that the truth shall set you free, President Biden uttered a series of falsehoods while

2 min read 2021-12-24 18:13:20

Festivus may have been made popular by “Seinfeld,” but fiscal conservatives have come to associate the day with one person: U.S. Senator Rand

2 min read 2021-12-18 00:00:37

“You need to come to the hospital, right now,” a nurse at Mercy Medical Center in Des Moines told me calling from my father’s cell phone one

3 min read 2021-12-08 09:26:54

Covid, Covid, Covid. Variant, variant, variant. Trust me, I’m the government’s highest paid employee, and “I represent science.” Show your

3 min read 2021-12-02 13:00:00

Over the past year and a half, the news cycle has been inundated with coronavirus headlines. These include increasing cases and changing lockdown

3 min read 2021-12-01 13:00:00

My name is Stephen Charles Sherman and I know this piece will illicit hate, but oh well, I’ve been threatened before. We joke in our family that

1 min read 2021-11-04 21:03:57

The Republican Ascendancy of the 1920s is associated with a return to conservative politics with the presidential administrations of Warren G.

1 min read 2021-10-28 12:00:00

A response to Peter Wehner’s article in The Atlantic. There’s trouble a-brewin’ in churches today. Yes, there’s division. Some of the

1 min read 2021-10-27 12:00:00

Two recording artists in different generations capture the cry of humanity: I need a hero. Bonnie Tyler swept the hearts of Canadians, Brits, and

1 min read 2021-10-26 12:00:00

I’m reading Recovering the Lost Art of Reading: A Quest for the True, the Good, and the Beautiful by Leland Ryken and Glenda Faye Mathes. Glenda

1 min read 2021-10-25 13:00:00

Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) is a leading conservative who is fighting for the America First agenda. Recently, Senator Hawley introduced the “Make in