The Garrett Ashley Mullet Show

What is freedom of speech, and is there a biblical principle supporting what we commonly refer to as our right to free speech? Unless we are dumb in the literal sense, we have the ability. We also have the responsibility. Yet freedom is not without reasonable constraint or consequence. And all things being permissible does not mean all things are beneficial. You cannot shout a knowingly false clai...

Buckle up, friends. It's about to get bumpy.  Twitter and Facebook last week permanently banned President Trump from their platforms on the claim he incited protesters to violently assault the Capitol building last week during a joint-session of Congress. Google and Apple have both made moves to remove the free speech social media network Parler from their app stores for iPhone and Android sm...

President Trump today all but conceded the 2020 election, saying that the objective now is a peaceful transition to a new administration at the end of the month. American conservatives spent the day denouncing and condemning the storming of the Capitol building in Washington DC by protesters. Where do we go from here? The simple answer is that we put our faith in God, and we pray for wisdom, stren...

What should we make of the images and scenes which came out of our nation's capital today as protesters stormed the halls of power in Washington DC?

Looking back on 2020, I realize just how much stress there was. So it seemed good to me to add an audiobook to my queue: The Upside of Stress: Why Stress Is Good for You, and How to Get Good at It, by Kelly McGonigal, PhD.  I also recently watched The Sound of Music with my kids, and I have a new appreciation for some of the main characters and themes of the story now compared with when I wat...

Chris Enloe at The Blaze reports 'House Democrat ends prayer with 'amen and a-woman,' gets destroyed when Ben Shapiro explains the meaning of 'amen'. Spoiler alert: the root word of 'amen' is not 'men.'  Also, what is behind Hollywood releasing a spate of awfully feminist movies?   Wonder Woman 1984 , The Croods: A New Age , and Star Wars: The Force Awakens, The Last Jedi, and The Rise o...

The Epoch Times reported today 11 More GOP Senators to Object to Electoral College Votes . I am reminded of Numbers 13-14 in the Old Testament, and that one time 12 spies were sent by Moses to scout out the Promised Land. Israel would have been far better off listening to Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephuneh. But, alas, the whole lot had fear of man issues and fell for argumentum ad populum...

On the last day of arguably the hardest year for this country in my lifetime, I hit publish on my first book. And This Is Why We Homeschool is up on Kindle, and will soon be available in paperback from Amazon.  Here is where things stand so far, and what my hopes are for the book now that it is launched.

The United States Congress finally passed another COVID stimulus package. Its stated goal is to help the American people negatively impacted by the effects of the novel coronavirus. Yet when a financial aid package totals nearly $1 trillion, we whose families and friends have been hurting financially this year because of the government-mandated throttling of our livelihoods can be forgiven for bal...

I have written a book, and the manuscript is complete. Now begins the editing process. By God's grace, I will finish editing the book and preparing it for publication in the last two weeks of the year. Special thanks to the dozen and a half people who are reading the first draft and giving me feedback on how to polish the final product. Here is my plan for successfully executing on this last stage...

It is Christmas 2020, and we do well not to forget to celebrate the birth of the Messiah.  In the spirit of celebration, then, let's sing some Christmas carols and meditate on what their lyrics mean.

Our social and political systems in the United States of America are faulting and need troubleshooting and repair. From the standpoint of an operator and technician working in the oil and gas industry since 2012, this is how I see it.

Mitch McConnell congratulates Joe Biden and Kamala Harris for having stolen the 2020 election, urging his fellow Republican lawmakers in the U.S. House and Senate to not fight for election integrity in the face of massive evidence of rampant, coordinated, and sufficient voter fraud. What should that mean to us? And how do we make sense of this move by the Senate Majority Leader? To answer that que...

Amidst all the talk of judges, legislators, government officials, and media personalities failing to do justice or investigate fraud and illegality when it comes from certain sectors, I am reminded of a famous quote from Edmund Burke. "All that is required for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing." Was Edmund Burke correct, or is a friend of mine more right when he asks the rhetorical que...

I had the very great honor of sitting down with Dr. Evelyn G. Mullet, Unicornologist for an exclusive interview. Listen to her answer the tough questions about unicorns like no one else can.

Today, the electoral college meets across the United States of America. What will come of their voting? Time will tell. In the meantime, we have an interesting headline to contemplate since yesterday, when the names and personal information of 1.95 million Chinese Communist Party members embedded around the world - including in the U.S., U.K., and Australia - was released to the public. Could the...

My family celebrated my son Enoch’s 5th birthday last night. To that end, we enjoyed having some guests over. While our guests were over, we got into talking about genealogy, and that reminds me that I want to share with you some of the interesting things I have learned about my MacFarlane ancestors on my mother's mother's side of the family. Also, last week, the U.S. Supreme Court turned down the...

A listener - Ben from Ohio - writes in with the following question: “So, we as Christians are supposed to be kind and helpful and uplifting. How do you go about doing that to a liberal, for example, while also not giving the impression you support their stance or point of views?” To help us answer this question, let's read what Christ teaches in Matthew 5:38-48 for starters. Verse 39 - "Do not res...

1. Thought exercise You decide you are not going to offend anyone about the masks issue, and then immediately walk into a room with 10 people – 5 wearing masks and 5 not wearing masks. The 5 wearing masks will be offended if you do not wear a mask; and the 5 not wearing masks will be offended if you do wear a mask. So what do you do? 2. The sermon at church this past Sunday dealt with Romans 14 in...

In Jeremiah 29, we see a mandate to God's people in Babylonian captivity. They are to: Build houses and plant gardens Take wives and have children Marry off their children to get grandchildren Seek the welfare of the city to which God has brought them as exiles In all these things, God is saying he will be honored.  Practically applied in our circumstance, we should not apologize for seeking our o...

Everyone is talking about the several COVID vaccines being developed, but I want to talk especially about the idea that this vaccination might become a mandatory condition of travel and employment.  As Christians, we are directed in the New Testament by the Apostle Paul to "study to show yourselves approved workmen that need not be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth."   Wha...

I finally did it. My first book manuscript is finished.  So let me tell you about my forthcoming book, And This Is Why We Homeschool. Intro/Outro Music: 8bitDetective by Bass Assassin

The day before yesterday was my wife Lauren’s and my 14-year anniversary, and we chose strategically to get married the week of Thanksgiving because we want to remember to have an attitude of gratitude about our marriage. Yesterday was Thanksgiving 2020, and we had our neighbors over to share a meal and thank God for all we have been provided with. Some Christians struggle with whether we should b...

I deleted my Facebook account this morning.  They asked me “Are you sure?” “Are you really, really sure?” When I answered in the affirmative each time, finally I got the response: “It’s scheduled for deletion in 30-days.” I have been a very active Facebook user since 2006 – in other words, for all my adult life to this point. It really did become unhealthy, unbalanced, out of proportion in it...

We may not – now or ever – know the truth of these allegation of widespread, coordinated, conspiracy to commit voter fraud in the 2020 Election. But we know the mainstream media is lying to us. Lies, deceit, manipulation – these are not new things. People just have more advanced means of perpetrating them. Moral equivalence is a kind of dishonesty and refusal to observe distinctions between wisdom...