The largest trade union in the country is composed of government workers. George Will explains what happens when the government is both the “employer” and the “worker” : Such unions are government organized as an interest group to lobby itself to do what it always . . . . Continue Reading »
The Aghan Christian convert I mentioned early this week has been released from prison : International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that Said Musa, an Afghan Christian who was arrested in May and threatened with execution for his conversion to Christianity, was released from prison last week . . . . Continue Reading »
Being young was never what it was cracked up to be. Our media culture wants us to think it’s the greatest thing, but they’re wrong. If someone somehow offered me the chance to go back, I would say, “no, thank you.” Sure, I could stand to have my joints back in the condition . . . . Continue Reading »
Glenn Beck recently sat down with Rev. Billy Graham for a three hour meeting. The differences in worldviews can be summed up in this one line : “I spoke of a growing darkness and evil,” Beck said of his meeting with Graham. “He spoke of a greater growth of light.” So . . . . Continue Reading »
There are many motives for attacking human exceptionalism. I have seen it attacked to permit the materialist religion of transhumanism a free hand. I have seen it attacked to elevate the moral value of animals, nature, and to promote radical environmentalism. I have seen it attacked as a consequence . . . . Continue Reading »
Locke denies, in fact, that any particular being can be reduced or defined as essentially a member of the species. And we’re the beings with enough self-consciousness or self-ownership—or a relatively stable and clear sense of who are as particular, vulnerable, free, rational, mortal (or . . . . Continue Reading »
God and LoveGod is Love and a Christian is called to worship God. (I John 4:8) Christians are, therefore, a people who worship at the feet of personal Love. All love springs from the recognition of beauty and the source of this beauty is God.For a Christian, God is both the source for humans’ . . . . Continue Reading »
So I’m almost done a chapter honoring the Zuckerts. It’s mainly about the Puritans, Marilynne Robinson, and stuff. But I’m bogged down in a last-minute intro. This is the first half, unproofed etc. Let me know what you think: Better than anyone else, Michael Zuckert has displayed . . . . Continue Reading »
So says Mike Huckabee : [Y]ou cannot have a strong economy if you have a social structure that’s falling apart. If you look at the most runaway costs of government, it’s Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid—all of which are essentially programs government designed to pick up the . . . . Continue Reading »
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