While working on another project it dawned on me that the way I described the American theology in 2015 as a transcendent occurrence, much like “being born again”, may have appeared to be a little bit of a philosophical stretch,…
Category: How Things Work
When Fear and Paranoia Move Centerstage, Look for an Invisible Hand
And that hand isn’t God’s. It’s the Manipulator’s. Moving into the fall election season last year, we spent days here discussing the inner workings of this latest generation of spoiled Wunderkinder, and that the demons at least were real on…
The Parable of the Grannies
As I’ve mentioned in other contexts, I spent a lot of time in the USSR before it fell, and then both Russia and Ukraine, as well as the Soviet Empire, after it fell, from 1991- through- 2008. Each of those…