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John Murdock
Bret Stephens is playing it safe—not that this has stopped liberals from pillorying him. Continue Reading »
Al Gore’s persona has been polarizing enough to help make climate change one of the most politicized topics of the day—turning even “science” itself into something of a wedge issue. Continue Reading »
When will we have a chance to piece back together a conservatism and a Christian worldview with something edifying to say about all of creation? Continue Reading »
In the end, Silence was too Christian for Hollywood and too Hollywood for Christians. Continue Reading »
With Inherit the Holy Mountain: Religion and the Rise of American Environmentalism, Mark Stoll chronicles how conservationism and its green progeny arose from Calvinism. “When Emerson advised the solitary individual to seek mystical union with the Divine in the woods,” writes Stoll, “he simply restated long-standing Calvinist advice.” Continue Reading »
Deborah Fikes offers “A Challenge for My Fellow Evangelicals.” The challenge for evangelicals, apparently, is to get with the global program and embrace “Sister Hillary.” Continue Reading »
Wayne Pacelle’s rather rudderless quest to make the world safe for animals seems to be taking us to a world without any livestock at all. Continue Reading »
The Seer opens with a blur of urban lights and longings: the faster freeway, the taller building, the machines that become the objects of our affections. Over this, the film’s subject, in his distinctive timbre, laments the pursuit of “the objective.” These opening three minutes culminate in . . . . Continue Reading »
The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof.” That is a truth that gets double billing in the Bible with the Apostle Paul quoting the Psalmist David in his first letter to the Corinthians. But it is a truth that gets short shrift today. We want an unbridled personal autonomy and a . . . . Continue Reading »
Many Beautiful Things lives up to its title. With lush visuals from the English countryside, the deserts of North Africa, and the watercolors of its subject Lilias Trotter, the latest from filmmaker Laura Waters Hinson pleases the eye while asking questions of the heart. If Trotter’s name sounds . . . . Continue Reading »
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