There’s much being said and written about the midterm elections (you can thank me later for not [yet, at least] adding my own voice to the cacophony). Right now, I’m just going to note a few pieces I just read, thanks to RealClearReligion . First, there’s the garden-variety . . . . Continue Reading »
Saving Leonardo: A Call to Resist the Secular Assault on Mind, Morals, & Meaning, by Nancy Pearcy (2010)Broadman & Holman Publishers: Nashville, TN“Today’s global secular culture has erected a maze of mental barriers against even considering the biblical message.” (15) . . . . Continue Reading »
[Note: This is the part four of a debate concerning the nature and existence of God and his proper relation to the state.] This is my first follow-up, a clarification and inquiry based on Mr. Brown’s reply to my initial post: Mr. Brown says that he doesn’t believe atheism can provide the . . . . Continue Reading »
[Note: This is the part three of a debate concerning the nature and existence of God and his proper relation to the state.] Mr. Brown’s response to my opening post is below. My original text is in blockquote while his is in bold: I’ve inserted my responses to each paragraph below. Later, . . . . Continue Reading »
A friend responding to my The Changed Times Don’t Last , one of Monday’s “On the Square” articles, sent the link to a website called Rightwing Bob . The site’s owner writes in his description of what he’s doing that he seeks to redress the balance a little bit. . . . . Continue Reading »
As a read through the First Things archive can attest, the intersection of religion, culture, and public life is usually complex enough to require analysis, not mere observation as a spectator. New York City, the ” prolepsis of the New Jerusalem ,” has been a venue for quite a bit of . . . . Continue Reading »
I am taking a moment from my usual obsessions to highlight something that is more explicitly political than I like to get, but which is likely to have a material impact on the discussions we have here in the months and years to come, so I am crossing the line a bit. I think Sarah Palin just . . . . Continue Reading »
[Note: This is the part two of a debate concerning the nature and existence of God and his proper relation to the state.] All political problems, contends political philosopher Glenn Tinder, are rooted in estrangement—the various kinds of disunity among human beings. Without estrangement there . . . . Continue Reading »
White House OMB Director Peter Orszag has a column in today’s NYT that illustrates part of why so many are so implacably opposed to Obamacare. A large part of the column deals with ways in which the law is supposed to save money. He admits, for example, that billions have . . . . Continue Reading »
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