by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Apr 3, 2016 | In The News, Random Commentary
As I began to realize a few days ago, when I spoke of the “Baffling Clash: Pro-Life Leaders v Donald J. Trump,” some of us cannot be part of movements. As someone who believes every person’s inalienable right to life begins at conception, I’m...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Mar 31, 2016 | In The News, Random Commentary
Trump image by Michael Vadon, used under license (CC BY-SA 4.0), via Wikimedia Commons.Today’s “Morning Jolt…with Jim Geraghty” e-mail (free from National Review) contains an interesting passage on the latest Donald Trump controversy. Here it...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Feb 8, 2016 | Book (& Other) Reviews, Random Commentary
I saw a very strange documentary recently: (A)sexual (directed by Angela Tucker, Arts Engine Inc., 2011). The premise of the film, which takes for granted the contemporary belief that people have innate sexual orientations (inclinations to have sex with persons of the...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Feb 6, 2016 | In The News, Random Commentary
Believing true what one wants to be true rather than what actually is true may be a less prevalent phenomenon among conservatives than liberals, but it is certainly not unknown among conservatives. For instance, one needn’t watch Fox New, the Fox Business...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Dec 1, 2015 | Random Commentary
Clarey, Tim, Ph.D. Dinosaurs: Marvels of God’s Design. Green Forest, AR: Master Books, 2015. Hardcover, 192 pages. ISBN 978-0-89051-904-2. Bible believers, who accept Scripture’s ultimate authority in all matters on which it speaks, are appropriately...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Oct 31, 2014 | In The News, Random Commentary
IntroductionHaving decided to waste no more effort sending letters to my local paper, the U-T San Diego, I’ve no longer needed to formulate quick responses to “the latest.” This has freed me to indulge my preference for prolonged reflection (also...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Jul 26, 2014 | Book (& Other) Reviews, Pet Peeves, Posted (or Sent) Elsewhere, Random Commentary
Image of harvested trees (don’t worry, they’ll grow back) © Copyright Alan Stewart and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons licence.If, like me, you set yourself hard deadlines and make formal appointments only when you have to, but still...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Feb 10, 2014 | Posted (or Sent) Elsewhere, Random Commentary
Not long ago, lack of reliable funding for automobile fuel had me visiting some churches a little closer to home than the one of which I’m officially a member. It also had me wishing that active involvement in a local church were not required by...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Dec 20, 2013 | In The News, Random Commentary
No sooner had I recovered sufficiently from an illness to watch some news than I was greeted by a story highlighting once again the sorry state of our dieing culture. Members of the homosexual lobby (known in corrupt contemporary English as “gays”)...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Dec 10, 2013 | Random Commentary
About the Image: “The Wager” by David M. Hodges, created late 1990s, updated 2013. The version of this image I recovered recently from some old Zip disks dated to 11 September 1998. The late 1990s were the time when my skeptical agnosticism was consuming...