The Garrett Ashley Mullet Show

If you want to understand the American Civil War better, read Mark A. Noll's book - The Civil War as a Theological Crisis. In it you will find that before the question of slavery was a political or military question to be answered on the battlefield, it was a theological question. How we read and interpret the Bible is of the utmost importance, and we have a fine example of the consequences of pla...

As I look back on recent weeks of podcasting, there is a question which becomes obviously important and needful to ask. When it comes to contending for the faith - whether potential threats to faithful Christian life and thought come from inside or outside the church - how does one go about contending for the faith without being contentious? It is too easy to confront bad attitudes with other bad...

Having now finished 'Lead: 12 Gospel Principles for Leadership in the Church' by Philadelphia pastor Paul David Tripp, let us do some soul searching and be Bereans about some of what is in the mix here. Much of what Tripp has to say I readily agree with - not because he said it, but because it is sound and Biblically clear-cut and incontrovertible. Unfortunately, also in the mix is a brand of woke...

In juxtaposition, consider with me two stories from last week. First, from the Epoch Times, 'Space Force Officer Relieved After Denouncing Marxism, Critical Race Theory in Military' published May 16, 2021 by Jack Phillips.  Second, from the HSLDA, 'Harvard Panel: Homeschooling is Here to Stay' published May 12, 2021 by Dave Dentel. The long and short of it is that Leftists in academia and the...

On Saturdays in our house, my wife typically makes homemade pizza and the kids and I watch a movie. This gives me a chance to expose my children to culturally enriching experiences, and to spend time with them. And it also gives Lauren some peace and quiet to work on sewing or school planning or reading without interruption. Last night we watched Peter Jackson's The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey,...

Among the people I trust and respect most, Paul David Tripp's book Lead: 12 Gospel Principles for Leadership in the Church comes highly recommended. So I started listening to that one on Audible yesterday, and I am about halfway through it now. But I will confess to being wary. Please take no offense if you can only find good things to say about this book or its author, but I intend to do a full r...

In recent days, the terrorist organization Hamas has fired hundreds of Iranian rockets at Israeli cities and Israeli men, women, and children. The IDF - Israeli Defense Force - has used its Iron Dome system to great effect intercepting more than 90% of the Hamas rockets, meaning that about one in ten rockets have gotten through. As the nation of Israel actively asserts its right to defend its peop...

David Murrow's 2005 book, Why Men Hate Going to Church, was brought up in conversation with my cousin Micah yesterday, and I want to encourage you to read it. The updated and revised version of it from 2011 can be purchased from Amazon here. A good YouTube video summary of it can be found from a speaking event Murrow held at a church in Australia, and you can find that video here. The premise is s...

A major American pipeline has suffered the most significant cyberattack in our country's history, and its being taken out of commission leaves the East Coast without a reliable and efficient supply of gasoline for the foreseeable future. Experts say the pipeline should be back online by the end of the week, but in the meantime over 1,000 gas stations have already run out of fuel for Americans who...

C.S. Lewis wrote a series of three science fiction novels known as The Space Trilogy. Out of the Silent Planet (1938), Perelandria: A Novel (1943), and That Hideous Strength: A Modern Fairy-Tale for Grown-ups (1945) are the three works in the series. All three at least were free with Audible Plus when I picked them up late last year, and I just finished listening to the last of them yesterday afte...

Namibia - an 88% Christian nation in 2013 according to Wikipedia - has struck oil with the help of a Canadian company called ReconAfrica. The play is being called the Kovango Basin. By some reports it may be the third largest in the world. It is as-yet completely untapped. Namibia's government and people apparently want to develop their reserves, and that is both marvelous and commendable. Woke We...

Paul Shiver wrote a piece for The Blaze yesterday reporting on Republican pollster and political strategist Frank Luntz and his remarks to a podcast at The New York Times. You can read the article here and you can listen to that NYT podcast interview with Luntz here . But the long and short of it is that Luntz thinks Trump has only himself to blame for social media giants having permanently banned...

On April 30th, Tyler Hummel at The College Fix published an expose of a diversity and inclusion training students and faculty at The University of Florida are being required to take in which white people in particular are singled out for their insensitive and condescending remarks to minorities. All the usual fare is there in the screenshots. Straight white men are scorned. Cultural appropriation...

Laura Ingraham recently hosted a town hall event on Fox News in which she asked Florida Governor Ron DeSantis whether he would sign legislation recently passed in Florida to ban biological males from competing in girls' sports. Other Republican governors also signaled their enthusiasm for such legislation in their states, NCAA be damned. Perhaps they learned a lesson from South Dakota Governor Kri...

A stomach bug has been making the rounds in our house this week, working its way through first the children and then Lauren and I from youngest to oldest. Only two of our sons were spared the first-hand experience. Being sick always puts me in a different mindset. My wife tells me I have a tendency to be a tad melodramatic when I am laid up.  But all told, and even in light of that, I tried t...

I only made it through the first 46:39 of President Joe Biden's first State of the Union address on MSN before I needed to leave out for work this morning, but here is what I have to say to as much as I heard. As Doug Wilson over at Blog and Mablog has said recently, I agree - we are now living under both a bad and illegitimate government. The White House was taken by fraud. And this fraud, though...

In Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy , the supercomputer Deep Thought operates for 7.5 million years to spit out the answer “42.” But by that time, nobody remembers what the question was. So then another supercomputer – this one none other than our very own planet Earth – is designed by a race of hyper-intelligent, ultra-capable galactic house mice to figure out what the original que...

Let's talk about the classic film Ben-Hur - the 1959 version with Charlton Heston, of course. This is one of my favorite movies, and has been since childhood.  If you've never seen it, do yourself and everyone around you a favor. Watch it. If it's been a while since you watched it last, watch it again.

"Anyways" - you would not believe how difficult it has been for me to try to eliminate just that one little word from my vocabulary. But this just serves to underscore the larger point of Biblical passages like James 3:1-12. Listen to this episode of the podcast to hear about my personal endeavor to get better, by God's grace and with his help, at taming my tongue.

I try to maintain seven audiobooks in my queue at all times. With having recently finished Fault Lines by Voddie Baucham, however, there is now an open slot.  Let's talk through why I chose to listen to the books I currently am, as well as which books those are and what I think of them so far. In the end, that will help me in figuring out what to replace Baucham's book with, and you will get...

Voddie T. Baucham's Fault Lines: The Social Justice Movement and Evangelicalism’s Looming Catastrophe is an excellent book. Voddie reminds me here why I have admired and appreciated him so much over the years. My wife Lauren and I had the pleasure of hearing him speak at Cedarville University's chapel twice in 2006 when we were attending there, and he still communicates with the same grace, truth,...

Before I head off to Wyoming for Gas Chromatograph training this week, I have the New Testament book of Jude on my mind, since we've been going through it as a church the past couple of Sundays. Call me crazy, but part of how I learn things - and how I know whether I have learned things - is by talking about them. So rather than having the book of Jude rattling around in my head like a pinball in...

At time of publishing, Steam tells me I have logged 2,816.4 hours on Civilization VI.  Bear in mind that with this being a turn-based strategy game I have been playing regularly since it was released in late 2016, a lot of those hours have not been active playing.  Being turn-based, a lot of those hours were the game just being up while I was waiting for friends and family to take their...

Let's talk about J. Gresham Machen's Christianity and Liberalism. I just finished listening to it on Audible yesterday, and I am struck by the clarity and directness of Machen's arguments. In sum, Liberal Christianity is a different religion. It is a counterfeit Christianity. It is a false gospel. And just like the Apostle Paul and the early church had to confront the Judaizers and the Gnostics fo...

I have endured some hostile work environments in my time. Let me tell you how I keep my head on straight, even nominally, after several bad experiences. In short, despite people predictably being unfair, selfish, dishonest, and even sometimes abusive, we cannot give up. We cannot throw in the towel. We cannot repay evil for evil. When we suffer unjustly, the New Testament letter of 1 Peter admonis...