Photo courtesy of Dustin Milligan at Terre Haute Vice News If you’ve been following the events in Terre Haute over the past 48 hours, like I have, you probably still have more questions than answers. I was on vacation with my family in Michigan when I first heard the reports that there had been a … Continue reading A Possible Case of Local Extremism
Author: Matt Larimer
I'm in the process of transitioning from pastoring to teaching full time and for fun I'm trying to farm and continually praying for the reconciliation of the Church. I enjoy reading and writing about theology, scriptural interpretation, and politics.
A Thoroughly Despotic Freedom
Believe it or not I usually shy away from writing about topics that I think will result in being labeled a crackpot, conspiracy theorist, or Chicken Little who claims the sky is always about to fall. But when Special Forces units conduct night time operations in your community, operations that local law enforcement asks local … Continue reading A Thoroughly Despotic Freedom
Blinding Lights
Imagine traveling into space and witnessing the blinding intensity of the sun's light unmediated by our atmosphere, or feeling the heat in what you assumed was the cold darkness of space. C.S. Lewis describes this experience in his novel Out of the Silent Planet when the main character Ransom is kidnapped and forced into a … Continue reading Blinding Lights
Something Stinks: A Second Look
Appearances can be deceiving. After publishing the first article in this series several people reached out to me about issues they saw in the community that look “shady.” One of the shadiest looking examples was the city’s recent purchase of the old Tribune Star building Garmong Construction. The beacon public access website shows that Garmong … Continue reading Something Stinks: A Second Look
Something Stinks: TIF District Manipulation
This article is the second in a series titled “Something Stinks,” focusing on Terre Haute’s ongoing struggles with corruption. The first article in that series focused on the highly suspicious events revolving around Terre Haute’s wastewater treatment facility. If you read that article when it was first published you might want to check it out … Continue reading Something Stinks: TIF District Manipulation
