Greg Forster

The mandate to finance pharmaceutical abortion (and contraception) impacts the religious freedom of all Americans - not just Roman Catholics, not just Christians, not just religious believers, and not just those who work in institutions that are formally religious (and which are therefore . . . . Continue Reading »

Ho, hum - another day, another brilliant piece by Jordan Ballor on the relationship between a well functioning economy and a well functioning community. Yesterday Joseph Knippenberg noted this piece; today, Ballor strikes again : Indeed, it was not very long into Dreher’s sojourn into . . . . Continue Reading »

Mitt Romney continues to follow his campaign strategy based on emulating Mr. Collins by once again saying the very worst thing you can say . It’s like watching ten or twenty years of hard-won progress in teaching the people who understand economics how not to talk about poverty go right down . . . . Continue Reading »

. . . and if that post title doesn’t generate hits, I don’t know what will. Yesterday, a friend who watches politics very closely proposed the following unified field theorem of the GOP nomination race: The GOP is Elizabeth Bennett. Mitt Romney is Darcy, wealthy and powerful - on paper, . . . . Continue Reading »

Matthew Schmitz errs when he suggests, in his critique of the Wall Street Journal editors, that the Journal ‘s position is dishonest. The editors have not only made the morally right case, they have been honest and consistent in doing so. Schmitz doesn’t see this because he has . . . . Continue Reading »

Over on TGC I offer some thoughts on what the European financial crisis has to do with theology: All this culminated in cultures that made productivity —-improving the lives of others by responding to their authentic needs—-central to both individual and national identity. Scriptural . . . . Continue Reading »

I first “met” Vaclav Havel in a political philosophy class. We were assigned The Memorandum . Do yourself - and your funny bone! - a favor and commemorate the great man’s passing by reading this hilarious sendup of the bureaucratic face of tyranny. It’s the most . . . . Continue Reading »

Although I prefer America’s stricter model of religious freedom to England’s, which might be characterized as the civil theology equivalent of the ” strategic ambiguity ” approach in foreign affairs, I was moved by Prime Minister David Cameron’s articulation of the . . . . Continue Reading »

One of the aphorisms attributed to Martin Luther in German folklore states that after a man falls off his horse on the left side, the next time he falls off it will be on the right side. In his gracious reply to what was, I admit, a provocatively worded critique of his post on engineering in . . . . Continue Reading »

I just came across this fascinating article by a Christian engineer, Jace Yarbrough, about “why we don’t have more engineers.” The shortage of good engineers has been the subject of intense effort for decades, yet the supply has stubbornly refused to increase. In addition to . . . . Continue Reading »