The No Kool-Aid Zone Blog
I don't drink the Kool-Aid. For Anyone.
Attention, All Expectant Mothers
This post is a tad out of character, but I want to help out a friend. Are you expecting, or do you know someone who is? My friend Kerri Linto Smith has invented a new product–watch the video below–but needs a lot of pre-orders to make it go, courtesy of 14 states in our union…
None Dare Call it Education
I had never heard of Indiana University Southeast prior to reading this article. Now, I wish I never had. Students are not allowed to express opinions except within a “free speech zone”. It’s hard to express how asinine this is; if the literal wording of the thing is held to, roommates would be required to…
The Prescient William Booth
“I consider that the chief dangers which confront the coming century will be religion without the Holy Ghost, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration, politics without God, and heaven without hell.” – William Booth, Founder of the Salvation Army William Booth died nearly a century ago. His words have proven to be…
What Huffington Wouldn't Post
Here, without amendment, is the original post I sent to the Huffington Post in response to this article on Chick-fil-A (Note: I’m sending the response I tried to get posted, which I had to edit a tad at the end, because apparently they have a word limit; nothing significant is changed from what I wrote.…
Freshening Up
This blog has had the same basic look and feel for a number of years, and I decided that it was time to freshen up the look of this place. Now that I’ve got it linked up with my Facebook page, and now that I’m back into the fray, it was time. I’m still tidying…
"Welfare" in the Early Church
Now and again you’ll hear someone, usually a professing Christian whose politics skew left, try to draw a parallel between what took place in the early church (recorded in Acts 4) and our contemporary welfare state. I find this connection to be utterly untenable, and I thought I’d explain this to my readers by listing…