Heidelcast 143: How Churches Are Responding To The Present Crisis

Heidelcast

on March 15, 2020 | 3 Comments

In the spirit of the hour, I am again postponing the series on the doctrine of God, I Am that I Am, to talk about how churches are responding to the crisis before us. Things are changing so quickly that, after we . . . Continue reading →

How Did We Get To Drag Queen Story Hour?

R. Scott Clark

on March 4, 2020 | 28 Comments

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) is a key source, with his provocative notion that human learning—the “arts and sciences” of his First Discourse—is actually that which corrupts us and hinders us being truly ourselves. Uncultured instincts and feelings are really who we are; civilization . . . Continue reading →

Why You Should Not Trust Wikipedia

R. Scott Clark

on March 2, 2020 | 4 Comments

In my classroom the quickest way to fail an assignment or possibly even the entire course is to cite Wikipedia as an authoritative source. I have been expressing concern about Wikipedia as a reliable source for information for almost as long as . . . Continue reading →

Prozac Nation Was A Warning About The Emptiness of Post-Christian America

R. Scott Clark

on February 27, 2020 | 2 Comments

…you can grow up with everything and still have nothing. Matt Purple, “Elizabeth Wurtzel, Trad,” The American Conservative February 26, 2020. Warning: Language.

Understanding The Boomers: The 1920s Gave Us The 1960s

R. Scott Clark

on February 13, 2020 | 2 Comments

There is no law beyond do what thou wilt; every man and woman is a star; the word of sin is restriction.” For some, these three short epigrams heralded the end of Christianity and the dawn of a new age. They certainly . . . Continue reading →

A Smear Memorialized

R. Scott Clark

on December 10, 2019 | 10 Comments

This is the portion of the trailer for the video By What Standard? released by Founders Ministry in which video, known in the business as “B-roll,” of Rachael Denhollander is used to illustrate the words, “always having the powers, the spiritual powers . . . Continue reading →

When The Culture War Trumps The Gospel

R. Scott Clark

on November 13, 2019 | 16 Comments

The German expression, Der Kulturkampf (The Culture War), originally referred to the attempt by Otto von Bismarck (1815–98), the German politician who created the modern, unified Germany, to suppress the Roman Catholic Church in Germany because he feared that Romanism in Germany . . . Continue reading →

What Was A Comedy Sketch Is Now Daily Life In The USA

Time For Another American Revolution?

R. Scott Clark

on July 4, 2019 | 4 Comments

HT: Jack Miller

They Are Coming For Your Children

R. Scott Clark

on April 2, 2019 | 16 Comments

There have been, arguably, three sexual revolutions in the modern period. If we think of the early stages of feminism, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, that was part of a sexual revolution that included a loosening of heterosexual mores. . . . Continue reading →

What Christians Can Learn From Drew Carey About Subverting Culture

R. Scott Clark

on March 14, 2019 | 1 Comment

Drew Carey is an American comedian who burst on to the national scene in 1991, when he appeared on the Johnny Carson Show. I saw that appearance and I am still chuckling. Beginning 1995 he starred in The Drew Carey Show for . . . Continue reading →

Of Razors, Corporate Responsibility, Virtue Signaling, And “Toxic Masculinity” (2)

R. Scott Clark

on January 23, 2019 | 2 Comments

In the first part of this essay I critiqued the new Gillette ad mainly from nature (creation). There are certain inalienable, natural truths built into the nature of things. One of those is that males are biologically, sexually, psychologically, and socially different . . . Continue reading →

Of Razors, Corporate Responsibility, Virtue Signaling, And “Toxic Masculinity”

R. Scott Clark

on January 16, 2019 | 25 Comments

Gillette, a subsidiary of the multi-national corporation, Procter and Gamble (P&G), has released a controversial new ad ostensibly exercising the new ethos of corporate responsibility to instruct men as to what genuine masculinity is and how they ought to behave. If the . . . Continue reading →

Millennial Perfectionism And The Social Media Covenant Of Works

R. Scott Clark

on September 29, 2018 | 2 Comments

If you are a Millennial, relax. This is not another critique. I do spend a fair bit of time with Millennials, however, and I have observed some interesting trends. One of these observations was reinforced recently in an article by Thomas Curran . . . Continue reading →

What Creepy Clowns Tell Us About Social Anxiety

R. Scott Clark

on June 14, 2018 | 4 Comments

The creepy clown craze caught me off guard. I suppose my earliest exposure to clowns came through the children’s television show Captain Kangaroo, hosted by Bob Keeshan. He himself had played Clarabelle the Clown on the Howdy Doody television program, which was . . . Continue reading →

Fentanyl Nation

R. Scott Clark

on May 29, 2018 | 7 Comments

Over the weekend came news that the Nebraska State Patrol arrested two men for transporting with intent to deliver enough Fentanyl to kill 26 million people. That is extraordinary. Obviously, we are grateful to the authorities for doing their job and glad . . . Continue reading →

McWhorter On An Alternative Doctrine Of Atonement

R. Scott Clark

on May 25, 2018 | 1 Comment

This brand of self-flagellation has become the new form of enlightenment on race issues. It qualifies as a kind of worship; the parallels with Christianity are almost uncannily rich. White privilege is the secular white person’s Original Sin, present at birth and . . . Continue reading →

On The Roots Of The Concept Of “Privilege”

R. Scott Clark

on May 25, 2018

Back in 1988, the concept of privilege did little to challenge racism or sexism. It reinvented discrimination as a fixed condition rooted within the biological differences between individuals rather than a social problem. The solutions proposed were therapeutic rather than political. Dominant . . . Continue reading →

What Changed?

R. Scott Clark

on March 12, 2018 | 1 Comment

At my suburban public school, fistfights were not uncommon. Blood flowed on school playgrounds when pick-up basketball games got out of hand. For those a bit older, there were bar fights and alleyway rumbles. I was born in 1959, and a vast . . . Continue reading →

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