In 1852, Frederick Douglass boldly spoke out against a clear, irrefutable evil: American slavery and the Fugitive Slave Act. The aim of his attack wasn’t the founding of the United States, or the Constitution, the Founding Fathers, or the Declaration of Independence. He went out of his way to praise those things. What he took…
It’s the Fourth of July, so I had better crank this post out. In my last post, I provided some background to Frederick Douglass’ speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” and gave an overview of his opening comments, in which he praised the Founding Fathers for what they accomplished in their…
For several reasons, I have hardly written anything on my blog since around October. Aside from one four-part series on The Crucible, anything I have posted has been a brief “advertisement” for another volume of my collection of older blog posts over the years. In any case, I feel the need to get back in…
I am in the middle of going back through all of my blog posts over these past ten years and self-publishing various collections from all my work. Last month, I came out with three volumes of my “Heresy of Ham Files.” Now, I present to you another volume that covers most of my posts on…
It took only a month for me to go through and reformat all my old blog posts about Ken Ham, Answers in Genesis, and Young Earth Creationism, and then turn them into a lovely three-volume set. Behold, “The Heresy of Ham Files: Ham Fisted Hermeneutics Volume 3: Red Meat and Book Reviews”! Allow me to…
I am making my way through all of my old blog posts on Ken Ham, Answers in Genesis, and young earth creationism. And already, I’ve come out with Volume 2. In this collection of posts, I highlight Ken Ham’s attacks on biblical scholars like Pete Enns, John Walton, NT Wright (among others), his attacks on…
I haven’t written about Ken Ham, Answers in Genesis, and Young Earth Creationism for some time, but in truth, during the first five years or so of this blog, I wrote on that topic A LOT. This blog was my “template” for hashing out my ideas and views concerning that topic. I ended up writing…
We have now come to my final post on Arthur Miller’s play, The Crucible. There are no real hysterical fireworks that happen in Act 4. The conclusion is straightforward. Allow me to summarize the events in Act 4. After that, I’ll share more over-arching comments on the play as a whole. An Overview of Act…
Here in my third post on Arthur Miller’s play, The Crucible, we will look at the courtroom scene and the insanity that unfolds in Act Three. In this post, though, I will be putting my comments directly into the overview. Buckle up…and when I say that, I mean, be a good Puritan and buckle up…
Here in my second post on Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, we’re going to look at Act Two. First, I’ll give an overview of Act Two, then I’ll make a few comments. An Overview of Act TwoAct Two takes place at John and Elizabeth’s Proctor’s house outside of town, eight days later. We learn that a…