[caption id=”attachment_3307” align=”alignleft” width=”391” caption=”Workshop of Fernando Gallego, Changing the Water into Wine, 1480-88 oil on panel “][/caption]The Divine Glory Is Manifested in the Signs of ChristWhen Jesus turned water into wine at . . . . Continue Reading »
With our metrosexual worship leaders, two-guitars-and-a-drum praise bands, and “Jesus is my boyfriend” songs , I assumed we evangelicals had a monopoly on messing up church music. But at the always intriguing Catholic literary journal Dappled Things , Jeffrey Tucker argues that music in . . . . Continue Reading »
The wife and I just returned from the Tinsletown movie complex at the Southern Park Mall, south of beautiful Youngstown, Ohio where we took in Denzel Washington’s latest movie, The Book of Eli. On about six different levels The Book of Eli is the finest film ever made, though I’ll . . . . Continue Reading »
President Obama and his cohorts in Congress are so dead set on passing a bill—any bill—they don’t care if they hurt the poor. And indeed, the current bills will by forcing states to widen—and pay for—Medicaid, which could break the bank. Moreover, the payments . . . . Continue Reading »
I published this one in the Weekly Standard under the title of “The Roots of Obama Worship: Auguste Comte’s Religion of Humanity finds a 21st- century savior” Barack Obama has now been center stage for two years—one as a presidential candidate (and president elect) and one as . . . . Continue Reading »
1. Thanks to Ivan the K and the various threaders (including jwc) for their astute comments on Mr. Jefferson’s university. 2. One of Mr. Jefferson’s strongest stands was against any Calvinists teaching there. According to Tocqueville, that stand is typically Virginian. DEMOCRACY IN . . . . Continue Reading »
Are faith-based universities intrinsically incompatible with the hallowed principle of academic freedom? The Canadian Association of University Teachers thinks so: CAUT versus Trinity Western. Against the homogenizing efforts of the CAUT, Regent College’s John Stackhouse commendably defends . . . . Continue Reading »
Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh each do a fine job at exposing the agenda and methodology of Saul Alinsky and his Communist agenda as it is being implemented from our nation’s White House. But there is something in Alinsky (Rules for Radicals) that I find intriguing. Yes, something . . . . Continue Reading »
When I get around to writing about the top ten controversies in bioethics that I see coming in this decade, near the top will be the struggle to enact conscience clauses to protect the careers of physicians, nurses, and other health care professionals who still take the Hippocratic Oath and its . . . . Continue Reading »
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