I am still thinking about God’s word to the woman and the man in Genesis 3. I want to understand the justice that God is doing here. My assumption is that when God does justice he begins a process of setting things right.The wrong God aims to set right, I have been suggesting, is a failure to . . . . Continue Reading »
I don’t always compose follow-up posts, but, in this case, I think further elaboration and clarification are in order. In my “qualified defense” of therapeutic Christianity, I utilized Christian Smith’s and Melinda Denton’s 2005 book Soul Searching to highlight the debates . . . . Continue Reading »
The Republican party of 2012 found itself lacking a relevant issue agenda, modern media strategy, and state of the art party organization. Right-leaning policy intellectuals have made some progress on the first problem. Whether it is Michael Strain on employment, James Capretta on health care . . . . Continue Reading »
Happy new year and here is why we have had ever happier new years in the lifetimes of anyone alive today. Regardless of the politics of nations, or the decline of social standards, or anything else we might deplore or fear, the living standards of people all over the world improve. . . . . Continue Reading »
So I was really, really moved by Carl’s defense of the Sixties, at their best, as part of America’s distinctively Christian counterculture. I remember hearing these words a lot in bars and such in the very late Sixties:Love is but a song we sing,fear a way we die.You can make the . . . . Continue Reading »
While it’s true that the song was not written by them, but by a minor folk singer Chet Powers, and that it had more chart success for another band, “Let’s Get Together” forever will belong to Jefferson Airplane. Their version was the best musically, and they made it an iconic . . . . Continue Reading »
Thinking of the divisions within the center-right as a conflict between the Republican establishment and Tea Party insurgents is problematic for understanding what is wrong (and what is right) in contemporary conservative politics. The Republican establishment and the Tea Party insurgents each have . . . . Continue Reading »
For the biographer, friends and family of the chosen biographical subject present perennial problems. The subject was almost certainly a public figure; the major elements of the biography will thus address public actions; but it would have been that private world of friends and family which occupied . . . . Continue Reading »
Katrina Lantos Swett and I, in our roles as Vice Chairwoman and Chairman respectively of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, have an op-ed piece in today’s Philadelphia Inquirer calling attention to the persecution of Christians in the Middle East and beyond. This . . . . Continue Reading »
I have been trying to understand the justice in God’s speeches in Genesis 3:14-19. For this is the context in which to make sense of the great puzzle I find in his words to the woman: “Your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you” (3:16). It is, strikingly, the first time . . . . Continue Reading »
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