The heart cannot love what the mind does not know.

It is a cliche, of course, because it remains true.

I cannot explain it adequately to myself, the shallowness of things. When one reads ‘the news’ it’s like watching pubescent children hurl pebbles and sling mud. To alter Arnold’s phrase, armies of intellectual urchins clash both day and night. Arguments are gone; now, it’s ad hominem attacks, ‘mostly peaceful protests’ by mobs, cancel culture, and the alphabet mafia.

In teaching my students, I continue to find they don’t read. They just scroll, scroll, scroll–video after video. An endless internet river of images devoid of substance.

The Scriptures say, “In the beginning was the Word . . .” (Jn 1:1a ESV). That’s John’s opening salvo about the logos, the Christ of God. It is to remind hearers of the centrality of the speaking/communicating/word-driven God who is, and who communicates primarily through a book. The sixty-six books of Scripture are there in countless languages, but we must open them, read them, study them, show ourselves approved as those who rightly understand and apply them to ourselves and to all who will hear and obey.

I read a story today on a news site where a man married an ashtray. Before that, he had married a mannequin. Yes, it’s true. It didn’t work out. Shocker. This is where we are.

https://theweek.com/news/world-news/954014/man-who-married-sex-doll-dumps-her-for-an-ashtray

It’s Romans 1:22-23 in Technicolor.

I’m going back to my novel now. The ship of fools left the port some time ago.