A Trip to Winesburg, Ohio: A New Literary Series (Part 4: “Mother”)
One of the saddest characters in Winesburg, Ohio is Elizabeth Willard, the mother of George Willard. We first met George in the story of “Hands”—he was the town...
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A Trip to Winesburg, Ohio: A New Literary Series (Part 3: “Paper Pills”)
Perhaps my favorite story in Winesburg, Ohio is “Paper Pills,” the story about one Dr. Reefy and the beautiful young woman he married who, died shortly with a y...
A Trip to Winesburg, Ohio: A New Literary Series (Part 2: “Hands”)
The first full story in Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio is a story titled, “Hands.” It is one of my favorites. It is the story of an odd “fat little old man...
A Trip to Winesburg, Ohio: A New Literary Series (Part 1: The Book of the Grotesque)
A new year is upon us, so I wanted to start off this new year on my blog with a literary series about a book that I long have loved: Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood...
2024: Going Out with a Bang–Looking at “Disarming Leviathan: Loving Your Christian Nationalist Neighbor” by Caleb Campbell. (Yes, it’s a freaking long post, and yes, I’m never touching this issue again)
Here we are at the end of 2024. As I’ve look back over the topics I covered this year on resurrecting orthodoxy, I noticed that a good number of my posts this y...
Matthew and Luke’s Nativity Stories…and the Maddening McClellan Disinformation Shtick
Well, it’s the Christmas season, and as to be expected, many “social media scholars” have posted material that deals with the nativity stories in Matthew and Lu...
“The Ark and the Darkness”–An Analysis of the YECist movie (Part 3: The Thrilling Conclusion, a Whole Lot of End Times Thinking…and some Politics for Good Measure)
Now for the thrilling conclusion of my look at the YECist movie The Ark and the Darkness. Aside from the specific items I have mentioned in my first two posts, ...
“The Ark and the Darkness”–An Analysis of the YECist movie (Part 2: Flood, Babel, and the Beast)
Here in Part 2 of my look at the YECist movie The Ark and the Darkness, I am going to provide an overview of the second half of the movie, as well as give my ob...
“The Ark and the Darkness”: Let’s Take a Look at the Most Recent Multimedia Extravaganza from Answers in Genesis and Liberty University (Part 1)
Over this Thanksgiving break, I decided to rent The Ark and the Darkness, a YECist movie collaboration of Liberty University and the Ark Encounter. It originall...
I Got Interviewed by Gregg Davidson on his Podast!
Recently, I sat down for an interview with Gregg Davidson on his “7 Series Podcast” to talk about my book, The Heresy of Ham. Take a listen! Ep 27 &...