The Garrett Ashley Mullet Show

"If a woman decides to become a teacher, she is told she has the most important job in the world. She is told she is training up the next generation. That she is raising up scientists, doctors and artists. That her work is noble, sacrificial and priceless." "But if another woman decides to be a stay at home mom, and gives her next 20 years to the teaching and training of her own children, she is t...

During lunchtime yesterday, I gave a white board talk to our kids about definitions and differences between theology and religion and worldview. And in the course of discussion, I wanted to emphasize to my sons that one of the very important differences between the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob compared with the deities of other religions is that our God in the Christian religion is infinite an...

I've been thinking about the lyrics to the song 'Simple Man,' and I have questions. Like, why didn't anyone give Lynyrd Skynyrd more to go on than this when he was young? And why was being a simple man the thing to shoot for? And where was his father? To be sure, we don't necessarily mean the same thing by "simple man" that the Bible does. But maybe that's the point. Do a word search of "simple" i...

Nearly a quarter of a millennium ago, the United States of America came into being with the signing of the Declaration of Independence by the Second Continental Congress. Not flighty or impulsively decided, the reasons for the separation from Great Britain needed to be told to the world. Thus the Founding Fathers did not just say they were an independent country like Michael Scott declaring bankru...

The Epoch Times reports North Dakota has decided to allow Bill Gates’s $13.5 million farmland purchase near that state’s border with Canada and Minnesota, over and against objections from many locals, so long as the land will still be leased out to those who want to put it to productive use. In other news, Merriam-Webster.com has a piece of work up titled ‘Pride’: The Word That Went From Vice to S...

Matt Walsh recently went all around the world asking what a woman is, but I think we need to ask a prerequisite question. What is a man? Courage, strength, wisdom, provision, leadership, humility, and reverence - all can be used to describe a good man. As should go without saying, women and children can also have these traits, and many men lack all of these. But a good man is characterized by a re...

“Pessimism is not in being tired of evil but in being tired of good. Despair does not lie in being weary of suffering, but in being weary of joy. It is when for some reason or other good things in a society no longer work that the society begins to decline; when its food does not feed, when its cures do not cure, when its blessings refuse to bless.” So says G.K. Chesterton in one among many poigna...

My wife and kids gave me a new wallet for Father’s Day this year. It’s leather and has my initials etched into the front. When you open the wallet, it has Proverbs 28:1 engraved on the inside. “The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion.” I love Proverbs 28:1, and I’ve said many times I hope to live my life in such a way that it would not be untoward for this Scriptu...

Jordan “JD” Hall has been removed from office at Fellowship Baptist Church in Sidney, Montana. He is now under church discipline and has been separated from his pulpit, and also his platform at Protestia.com. Even as I talk about his downfall, I find myself not happy to be proven right about it. Actually, I am sad to see that so many continue following and embracing Hall to the last, and that so m...

Freedom, to be sustainable, requires not just Liberty in the abstract. What Os Guinness calls "the golden triangle" includes also Virtue and "Faith in something." Without these, Freedom cannot be maintained. In his 2014 book, 'A Free People's Suicide: Sustainable Freedom and the American Future,' Guinness delves deep into quotes from the Founding Fathers of the United States of America, plus also...

A day many thought would never come finally did come yesterday. The landmark precedent set by the 1973 Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade, making legalized abortion “the law of the land” for nearly 50-years, was officially overturned with a ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. The harshest critics of Trump have for years impugned the character of those like me who openly supp...

It had been about 10 to 15 years since I last listened to what's popular in Christian Music. That changed this week when I typed "Billboard Christian Top Songs" into Google, and there on the first page of the search results was a weblink from the K-LOVE Staff from a year ago .  At the top of that list were the following songs: "You Say" by Lauren Daigle "Holy Water" by We The Kingdom "The Ble...

If we would not send our kids off to be taught by the public schools, what makes the reading of great literature any different or better? For one thing, where there is no difference, concerned parents are certainly free to decide to opt out of reading certain books with their kids that they do not feel equipped to work through with them. “All things are permissible, but not all things are benefici...

As late, I have been studying the four most well-known and broadly affirmed creeds from Church History - the Apostles' Creed (abt. 180AD), the Nicene Creed (325-381AD), the Chalcedonian Creed (451AD), and the Athanasian Creed (abt. 500AD).  What do they explicitly say? And how or why do they differ from one another? Why were they written and then handed down? And can we learn from them, throu...

The book I recently read and reviewed in our last episode - ‘Finding the Right Hills to Die On’ by Gavin Ortlund - has a certain ‘How To Guide to Ecumenism’ feel to it throughout. As I think about ecumenism, an awareness dawns on me how much of it has marked my own Christian life as a 35-year-old American. My father was raised Mennonite, my mother attended Pensacola Christian and Bob Jones Univers...

A recurring theme of Gavin Ortlund's ‘Finding the Right Hills to Die On - The Case for Theological Triage’ is the overall effect of doctrinal concerns. Not principally theological, but rather practical questions are asked by him here, like about what is going to be impacted in the life of the Church or individual Christians if a disagreement is allowed to stand or expand without being properly cat...

When it comes to understanding the nuances of Trinitarianism, see also Chapter 1 of Matthew Barrett’s ‘None Greater’ concerning the Incomprehensibility of God. That said, between 'None Greater' and 'Simply Trinity,' Matthew Barrett has made me aware of a great many things which were entirely unknown to me before, but which now sorely need further study. For one, Jurgen Moltmann seems now to be the...

'None Greater: The Undomesticated Attributes of God' by Matthew Barrett is an excellent survey of historically orthodox doctrine regarding the attributes of God.  Admittedly, I recently read this recommended book after reading another recommended book - a certain ‘Gentle and Lowly’ by Dane Ortlund which is enjoying popularity in the U.S. right now.  If I can admit as much honestly, I was...

Let's start off this episode with a selected reading from ‘The Poetry of Scotland,’ edited and introduced by Roderick Watson. Specifically, ‘The Bruce’ Book XII discusses the second day of the Battle of Bannockburn, and is part of a larger poem by John Barbour (1320-1395); written about 1375, it’s the oldest poem preserved in Scots. My daughter Evelyn says my reading these to her is like a bedtime...

From 2007-2010, I worked as a billing clerk for a trucking company, R+L Carriers. For the first several months, I was stationed at the Wilmington, Ohio headquarters. One of only two male billing clerks in the department, the other guy was a huge fan of Insane Clown Posse. We didn’t talk much. A Christian heavy metal group called Demonhunter in particular paired well back then with commuting on my...

I watched the first three episodes of Obi-wan Kenobi with my four oldest sons and my dad at my brother’s house last Friday. Because these are the days we live in, there is controversy already with fans complaining about one of the newly introduced villains, Inquisitor Reva. Disney has wasted no time in characterizing as racist such complaints from fans. Ostensibly, this is because the actress, Mos...

My own researches have shown me that some of my earliest ancestors in the New World on my great-grandmother’s side took Indian women for wives a long time ago.  A certain Thomas Blalock (1581-1660), for one, is listed as a survivor of “The Starving Time” in John Smith’s ‘Historie of Virginia’ (1624), and married a Nassawadox Indian woman named Rachel Cates in 1627 and had 5 children with her. For...

How do you sum up a book with so audacious a title as 'All That Is In God' ? For starters, to quote its author James A. Dolezal in his own words: “The chief problem I address in this work is the abandonment of God’s simplicity and of the infinite pure actuality of His being.” In other words, there is a great difference between believing on the one hand that God is complex and complicated, made up...

My wife Lauren underwent a major knee surgery back in 2019, and it taught both of us some important lessons with regards to pain and suffering. Though sometimes I wish we had been spared these lessons, we now realize more fully and practically how such are of a piece with living in a Creation marred and broken by sin and the effects of sin.  This was not how it was in the beginning before the...

Kicking off Humility Month in the U.S., it seems good to me to do a review of James Clear's 2018 book 'Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones.' If ever there was one, this is a work that belongs solidly in the self-help, psychology, and productivity genres. To use another word, this is a book about self-control. Nothing says more about whether we have con...