Ron Paul Supporters, Pete Spiliakos, United In Love
by Pete SpiliakosFor this ad. I’m tired. Maybe some thoughts on Cain, Gingrich and Romney tomorrow. . . . . Continue Reading »
What the Cultural Mandate is not
by David T. KoyzisReformed Christians often refer to Genesis 1:28 as the Cultural Mandate:And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”There . . . . Continue Reading »
Mitt Romney’s Change of Mind
by Joseph KnippenbergAs someone who has “flipped” from one position to another (left to right, atheist to Christian), I have some sympathy for Mitt Romney. (To be sure, I had little to gain in the academy from either flip.) But Kathleen Parker’s account of how Mitt Romney approached the . . . . Continue Reading »
American Exceptionalism, Today on NPR
by Matthew J. FranckAt 3:00 p.m. EST, I will be on NPR’s “Talk of the Nation” program, along with Charles Blow of the New York Times, to discuss this report of the Pew Research Center suggesting that belief in American “exceptionalism” is subsiding. If you look at the full report . . . . Continue Reading »
Clarification on Evangelicals and Public Action
by GuestBy Robert Schwarzwalder and Julia Kiewit We recently published an On the Square article faulting some Evangelical Christian organizations for not objecting to the proposed federal “contraceptive mandate” that would force all health insurance plans to include abortifacient drugs. . . . . Continue Reading »
Gov. Kitzhaber Hypocrisy Re Death Penalty/Assisted Suicide
by Wesley J. SmithOregon Governor John Kitzhaber is a hypocrite. He was governor when the state’s assisted suicide legalization law went into effect and he administered the law with gusto, repeatedly stating that his job was to carry out the people’s will by moving doctor-presribed death into . . . . Continue Reading »
The Great Atonement
by Joe CarterIn his critical appreciation of the recently departed theologian John Stott, Carl Trueman includes this delightfully apt digression : Death is, of course, the great atonement. I have commented before on how you only have to die these days in order to have all of your sins, both great and . . . . Continue Reading »
The 60s in Plato’s Eyes: a Democratic Revolution against an Oligarchic Culture
by Carl ScottPeter was fishing for my responses on Christianity and its relation to modernity’s three stages in America AND on whether or not America is more oligarchic than democratic according to Plato’s sense of the terms. Well, that first topic is huge, but even as I focus upon the second one . . . . Continue Reading »
Evangelical Academics and the “Bad” War
by Joe Carter“Foes of gay rights are now seen by the press as fighting the bad war, roughly analogous to Vietnam,” wrote Fred Barnes in The Weekly Standard . “Pro-lifers are waging the good war, like World War II.” Timothy Dalrymple has an excellent post examining this analogy and shares . . . . Continue Reading »
Gingrich, Wasting Assets, And A Two-Front War
by Pete SpiliakosGingrich is surging in the polls and, with Cain’s new issue and possible withdrawal,, Gingrich stands to gain even more in the short-term, but I still don’t expect it to last. The problem of stopping Gingrich is insistent, but it is insistent for the right-of-Romney candidates not . . . . Continue Reading »
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