James Collins explains how the novels of Jane Austen can serve as a moral compass in today’s world : Today’s readers tend to appreciate Austen despite her didacticism rather than because of it. She can be positively priggish, and that is an embarrassment. The contemporary reader who . . . . Continue Reading »
I love Christmas and the jollification that comes with it and the carols that come with the Holidays are a big part of the reason.Christmas brings out the best in many tune writers: think Handel, Wesley, and the obscure pious pastor who wrote Silent Night. Hallelujah! Clever, but aging, singers have . . . . Continue Reading »
The media continue to pretend that global warming is as incontestable as the existence of gravity. That being so, they happily pitch the panic propounded by the would be world governors of the international global warming scientocracy. Take this lead from the always in the tank AP, with the SF . . . . Continue Reading »
The commercialization of Christmas and the holiday (etymologically associated as holiday derives from Holy Day) associated with gift giving has diluted “real” message of Christmas. This has been discussed and debated over and over and I’m not going to attempt to add anything new to . . . . Continue Reading »
This is the second part in a twelve part devotional commentary on “O Holy Night.” See the introduction here.Long lay the world In sin and error pining,’Til He appear’d And the soul felt its worth.The dark world into which our Savior was born is one living in sin. Paul, . . . . Continue Reading »
[Note: Every Friday on First Thoughts we host heated, half-serious, half-cocked arguments about some aspect of pop culture. Today’s theme is the best movies of the past ten years. Have a suggestion for a topic? Send them to me at jcarter@firstthings.com ] The most remarkable thing you’ll . . . . Continue Reading »
In his excellent post on evangelicals and nuclear abolitionism , Brian Auten notes that “it is important for, again, non-experts—national security and theological alike—to see that there are other, in some cases radically different and yet still Christian, perspectives to many of . . . . Continue Reading »
If nothing is sacred, nothing can be profaned.This line has been haunting me for a few months. The video of the fellow tweeting during his wedding brought it back to mind.As one commenter on put it in response to the video, “It seems to me the issue–an all-too common one these . . . . Continue Reading »
So some of you are thinking, “Frank, you’re a jerk, you know that? This is the Christmas season, and you’re ignoring the fact that the Angels we have heard on High sang Glo-o-o-ria in-ex-chel-sis-day-o. They were happy – John Piper would say they were happy. John Mark Reynolds . . . . Continue Reading »
Safe to say that Van Jones will never be president.Hanging out with a 9/11 Truther, people who are not sure that 9/11 was an act of terrorism by Bin Laden and company, is a good sign you are not fit to serve. Similarly the right has been plagued by people unsure whether President Obama was born in . . . . Continue Reading »
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