by Bill Farley | Feb 28, 2024 | Uncategorized
MARRIAGE IS THE INDISPENSIBLE BUILDING BLOCK OF CULTURE. We know that because marriage is the only social institution God created prior to the fall. All cultures rise and fall on the health and spiritual vitality of their marriages and families. J. D. Unwin’s...
by Bill Farley | Jan 30, 2024 | Uncategorized
SINCE THE FRENCH REVOLUTION IN THE SEVENTEEN-NINETIES, a great lie has motivated every social upheaval. It is the fiction that humanity is perfectible. And if man is perfectible, if human nature is malleable, then enough social force, applied to the right people, can...
by Bill Farley | Dec 6, 2023 | book review, Uncategorized
I LOVE TO READ, AND THAT MEANS I READ A LOT OF BOOKS. Some books have been personal mentors. Others have just been information. They have been long forgotten. But others are deeply valued friends that have changed my thinking radically and sent me on a new trajectory....
by Bill Farley | Nov 8, 2023 | Uncategorized
The expression “you deserve” has become ubiquitous in modern advertising. Mcdonald’s famous slogan, “You deserve a break today” is a classic example. I also just heard a mattress ad that ended, “Get the sleep you deserve!”...
by Bill Farley | Oct 19, 2023 | Science, Uncategorized
DURING COVID THE GOVERNMENT EXHORTED US TO “JUST FOLLOW THE SCIENCE.” When it ended up not being “science” but propaganda, many of us felt abused. The point of this essay is that Christians can always trust science— when it is in fact true...
by Bill Farley | Oct 13, 2023 | church history, Uncategorized
I LOVE HISTORY, ESPECIALLY CHURCH HISTORY. I love it because history is “his-story”—the story of Christ ruling the world from the Father’s right hand by the power of his Holy Spirit. I have also discovered that biographies are one of the best, and...