Fritz Wagner over at Voegelin View has an insightful observation on Climategate here , including one of Dr. Voegelin’s prescient observations written some decades prior to the current embarrassment. . . . . Continue Reading »
Over at Asia Times Online I posted a “Spengler” piece dissecting the Friday unemployment report. I hate to bother with such things, but someone has to do it.Here is a Top 10 of reasons to scrooge the BLS report:10. ... nearly 300,000 people disappeared from the labor force, yet the . . . . Continue Reading »
Jordan Ballor has an intriguing post on “the relationship between the church’s approach to charity and the creation of the welfare state” as discussed in Lester DeKoster and Gerard Berghoef 1980 book, The Deacons Handbook: A Manual of Stewardship:DeKoster and Berghoef argue in . . . . Continue Reading »
Just a pointer here to some wise thoughts posted recently by Steve Holmes, at his blog Shored Fragments. Having opined in public previously on the question of what makes evangelical theology evangelical, he reports a recent breakthrough in his own thinking: It’s not so much a set of . . . . Continue Reading »
A fear of many who protest the opening of this clinic is that doctors there will fertilize myriad eggs and discard the “extras” and the abnormal as if they were no more meaningful than a dish of caviar. But this fear seems largely unwarranted. —Comment made by columnist Ellen Goodman . . . . Continue Reading »
There is darkness and then there is a night sky filled with stars. The first is hellish despair, but the second is a chance to look up toward the lights of Heaven.Advent allows us to follow a Holy Star toward Bethlehem where we will find the light of the World, the Son of God. One woman is part of . . . . Continue Reading »
Saturday I had the chance to hear Mitt Romney speak without notes or teleprompter. He took questions from the audience.I realized how low my standards had become for politicians. Romney was amazing. He gave complete answers, used historical references for his points from memory, and showed a sense . . . . Continue Reading »
Hypocrisy, thy name is global warming hysteric: Al Gore with his four houses and huge appetite for electricity, “green” movie stars with their limos (Ed Begley excepted), etc. Don’t expect the NYT and other American MSM to report this story, but the Telegraph nailed the hypocrisy . . . . Continue Reading »
My pal Steven Hayward (of the American Enterprise Institute) has a funny—and telling—blog entry over at The Corner. Apparently Michael Schlesinger of the University of Illinois, one of the big global warming scientists, is mad at a NY Times reporter for reporting that Copenhagen . . . . Continue Reading »
Ecumenical dialogue is important. One problem in discussions between Christians has been the failure to recognize that each group quotes different Biblical authors. We all know that Paul is a Protestant, for example, but few recognize that Paul himself can be divided between early Paul . . . . Continue Reading »
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