One of the things that really soured me on the Clintons—or perhaps better stated, the first—was the botched Hillarycare mess. Instead of fixing what was broken, she tried to remake the entire system, resulting in a bureaucratic mess. Ditto Obamacare’s 2700 page monstrosity that . . . . Continue Reading »
Thoughts from Pastor Larry Peters.When I became a man, I gave up childish ways – oh, did you think that was me talking?? If you knew me, you would laugh at the audacity of me saying “I’m all grown up.” My family would laugh, for sure. I wish I could say them with some shred of . . . . Continue Reading »
The province of Québec is possibly the most secularized jurisdiction in North America, yet Montreal’s McGill University boasts a dissident from the apparent post-christian consensus that took over that province during the Révolution tranquille of half a century ago. He is Douglas . . . . Continue Reading »
We love our stuff, and that makes God less-real to us. We want our relationship with God to be completely under our control the way all our stuff — everything from cars to boxes of paper — is under our control. And because Jesus is not in your face the way this blog is in your face, . . . . Continue Reading »
While water vapor has always been considered one of the primary greenhouse gases, a new report says that scientists have underestimated the role it plays in determining global temperature changes: The research, led by one of the world’s top climate scientists, suggests that almost one-third . . . . Continue Reading »
Audio ecologist Gordon Hempton defines silence as “the complete absence of all audible mechanical vibrations, leaving only the sounds of nature at her most natural. Silence is the presence of everything, undisturbed.” This natural silence, though, is becoming increasingly rare— . . . . Continue Reading »
In the Boston Globe this weekend, the economist Peter Leeson argues that trial by ordeal—testing guilt by, say, forcing the hand of the accused into a vat of boiling water to see whether it burned—was a pretty effective way of judgment. It’s a wild, and goofy, and interesting . . . . Continue Reading »
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