The Crispy Marshwiggle

Grateful Reflections on a Wonderful Amenity "Life often feels like a mad dash as we rush about like chickens missing the above-the-neck portion. Yet when we step into the shower, it is as if we step into another world." We are trying to spread the word about The Crispy Marshwiggle! If you like this content, please subscribe and share with a friend. To read these essays, check out our ⁠⁠⁠...

Consistent Work Over Time "Do we even care about excellence? If we do, do we go after it in short, little bursts every once in a great while? It is tough to put your nose to the grindstone day after day. But the results speak for themselves. " We are trying to spread the word about The Crispy Marshwiggle! If you like this content, please subscribe and share with a friend. To read these e...

On the Scourges of American Households There is one creature that is both strange and un-majestic. It does not inspire awe as the giraffe and the orca do. It possesses no extraordinary features like those of the cheetah or kangaroo. It neither respects mankind as a fellow creature nor tries to kill it in fair combat. It marches to the beat of its own drum. This unremarkable yet altogether alien cr...

Reflections on a Rotten Bill in a Confused Culture "Crazy states make crazy laws. That should come as no surprise to God's people in Colorado... The decaying fruit has been on display for years, and it should not be shocking when the biggest and most rotten fruit of all comes along." We are trying to spread the word about The Crispy Marshwiggle! If you like this content, please subsc...

Thoughts on Fighting Those Who Enjoy A Good Layer of Fog "There are many people at present time who, as Dr. Francis L. Patton has aptly put it, prefer to fight intellectual battles in what may be called a condition of “low visibility”. " J. Gresham Machen We are trying to spread the word about The Crispy Marshwiggle! If you like this content, please subscribe and share with a friend. To read these...

The Man Who Spreads Sweetness and Light This English lord does it all. Pig stealing? Check. Impersonating anyone from veterinarians to brain specialists? Check. Raising hundreds of pounds to jumpstart a married couple in their new life? Check. Uncle Fred has a particular soft spot for two loving hearts. He can often be found healing lovers' tiffs or pleading cases to unimpressed potential in-laws....

You Can Trust The Bible (Short Version) There is a special energy reserved for attempting to expose the Bible as unreliable and more full of holes than a block of Swiss cheese. These critics all have their pet reasons why the Book cannot be trusted. But those reasons flop. Like a really bad LeBron flop. We are trying to spread the word about The Crispy Marshwiggle! If you like this content, please...

A Tribute to Wodehouse, Chesterton, and the One Who Invented Both of Them "Real life is absolutely wild." We are trying to spread the word about The Crispy Marshwiggle! If you like this content, please subscribe and share with a friend. To read these essays, check out our ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Substack⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (it's absolutely, positively free). You can also follow me on ⁠⁠...

Thoughts on Death the Great Equalizer from Shakespeare "Alexander kicked the bucket when he was at the peak of his reign. Napoleon underwent the great change in exile. Somebody just stabbed Julius Caesar (et tu Brute?). These were the most formidable individuals on the planet. But they died as mortal men. Because that is exactly what they were. " We are trying to spread the word about Th...

A Tribute to the World’s Golden Substance and the Cows that Made It and the God who Made Them "Butter is a total team player. It lifts all that surrounds it to a new elevation. It does not always need to be noticed. Like a good point guard or event coordinator, butter is content to operate in the background and allow others to get the credit." We are trying to spread the word about The Crispy Mars...

Be A Cheerio "Cheerios are relentlessly cheery. No matter how many times you press them down into the milk in your breakfast bowl, when you release them, they come bobbing back to the surface reporting for duty. You can never keep a good Cheerio down. " We are trying to spread the word about The Crispy Marshwiggle! If you like this content, please subscribe and share with a friend. To read these e...

Remember the Downtrodden "Look around you on the streets of your city or town (or village, for that matter). There is a silent group of hurting people all around us. They wander on our sidewalks or even on the side of the road." We are trying to spread the word about The Crispy Marshwiggle! If you like this content, please subscribe and share with a friend. To read these essays, check ou...

Governor Polis "You have a responsibility before God to to punish those who do evil and to praise those who do good (1 Peter 2:14). In order to do this, you have to know what good and evil are. It is not enough to base this on popular opinion and the way the political winds are blowing. God has created this world, and God is the one who sets the rules and defines what is right and what is wro...

A Portal Between The Worlds "Airports exist so that people can fly 30,000 feet above the Earth's surface at top speed from one location to another (sounds pretty foreign when you think about it, does it not?). They house gigantic flying machines that can do just about everything except leave on time." We are trying to spread the word about The Crispy Marshwiggle! If you like this con...

If Christ is Lord, Theology is Public "He rules over all of creation, and everything belongs to Him. If this is true, then God owns all the inches (as that Dutch prime minister, theologian, and journalist said). Christ's truth is not a private matter, but the most public one possible. " We are trying to spread the word about The Crispy Marshwiggle! If you like this content, please subscribe and sh...

The Relentless Questioner "Columbo never seemed to notice the annoyance he was causing. He appeared blissfully unaware of the inconvenience he was, always popping up with "just one more thing, ma'am" and "Sir, I remembered what I was gonna ask you". But I think Columbo knew all along how his questions were received. He just did not care. " We are trying to spread the word about The Crispy Marshwig...

Thoughts on Being in the Truth Business "To actually walk in truth costs something. If you want to buy truth and not just view it in the window, payment is required. God commands us to make that payment, no matter what the cost. The alternative is to sell that truth and buy something else. That is what we have done today. " We are trying to spread the word about The Crispy Marshwiggle! If you like...

The Striker Mindset "God has entrusted us with a duty. That duty will require endurance and effort. Whether it is raising kids, working, going to school, or whatever else you may set your hand to, you are going to have to try something. You will do stuff that may or may not work out the way you planned. Remember that the Lord is worthy of your best effort every time." We are trying to spread the w...

"The deconstruction business is booming. Everyone and their mom has a book or an Instagram reel or a Facebook post about how they are finally starting to examine their beliefs. They then realize that in their heart of hearts they have been aligned with the spirit of the age all along." We are trying to spread the word about The Crispy Marshwiggle! If you like this content, please subscribe and sha...

Notes about How We View the Future "For those who rely on The Crispy Marshwiggle as a bastion of high culture (which is obviously everyone who will read this), a mention of this Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence action flick will come as something of a letdown or even a shock. These two are not exactly Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn from the classical movie days (let alone Shakespeare or Lewis or a...

A Subject Worthy of Even the Feeblest Pen "This is not the best writing on the Incarnation. Before any more words are written, I can already tell you that it will fall spectacularly short of both the topic and other attempts to draw out its splendor. Why even bother to put pen to paper (or key to word processor) if there is no hope of improving the body of material? When Athanasius and John Owen a...

Thoughts on A Unique Gift "Rain is completely outside of our control. Nothing we do can make it come or go away. We cannot influence to make it linger or persuade it to stay just a little bit longer. And when it pours forth in unthinkable quantities, all of our human ingenuity can do nothing to cease its torrential output. Rain reminds us that we are but dust." We are trying to spread the word abo...

This Is What It Means To Be A King Lune is "the jolliest, fat, apple-cheeked, twinkle-eyed King you could imagine" ( The Horse and His Boy , pg. 154). This is no Stoic philosopher or brutal warlord. This is a flesh-and-blood man not about to let the joy of life pass him by (I am sure he thoroughly enjoyed his feasting days). We are trying to spread the word about The Crispy Marshwiggle! If you lik...

Delivered at Jefferson County Courthouse, November 2024 It is fitting that this final milestone for our adoption falls so close to Thanksgiving Day. There is perhaps no word that better encapsulates today than thanksgiving. Today our hearts swell with gratitude. Our house is overflowing (in the best sense of that word). We now have four beautiful little girls. We are trying to spread the word abou...

Sharing is Caring Bicycles are awesome. Whatever avalanche of words follows, it is not meant to discredit the statement above. The swinging of the pendulum and the adoption of strange policies does not negate the merits of cycling itself. I would like this to be clear from the outset. Because I have something rather challenging to say to cyclists (and the towns that enable their ways). We are tryi...