A secularist recently complained that Christians haven’t ended poverty after two thousand years and that maybe it’s time we give the federal government a crack at it. I think he’s forgotten about the inefficiency of the federal “War on Poverty” that LBJ established in . . . . Continue Reading »
Big headlines over here in the UK today: The fight to save the life of Baby RB has ended with the father’s acquiescence to removing life support. From the story:A baby at the centre of a “right to life” court battle will be allowed to die after his father today withdrew his case. . . . . Continue Reading »
Over at the Chronicle of Higher Education , Laurie Fendrich, professor of fine arts at Hofstra, sarcastically longs for a return to the pre-Christian, pagan past: When all is said and done, I think we might have been better off if the great monotheistic religions—Islam, Judaism and . . . . Continue Reading »
At the Evangel blog, Russell Moore explains how the children’s television show changed hearts and mind: Sesame Street was effective because the program didn’t just contexutalize to the present; it contextualized to the future. Remember, after all, when the show started. It was in 1969, . . . . Continue Reading »
People who should know better, good people, have said to me, “These Islamic terrorists are a problem . . . and the problem is that they are Muslims first and Americans second.”Evidently religion is only safe if it conforms to whatever the political consensus in Washington happens to be . . . . Continue Reading »
As I was thinking through the following prayer of Paul last week, several things occurred to me:And it is my prayer that your love may abound more and more, with knowledge and all discernment, so that you may approve what is excellent, and so be pure and blameless for the day of Christ, filled with . . . . Continue Reading »
Iran’s chief lobbyist in the US will take over the State Department’s Iran portfolio, reports Ed Lasky at The American Thinker. John Limbert replaces Dennis Ross, who “has moved to the National Security Council and has not been heard from since,” Lasky observes.It is an . . . . Continue Reading »
In a recent issue of The Philosophers Magazine , atheist philosopher Raymond Tallis claims that Darwinism cannot explain the human mind: Consciousness makes evolutionary sense only if one does not start far enough back; if, that is to say, one fails to assume a consistent and sincere materialist . . . . Continue Reading »
Douglas Wilson on humbling the arts: Because of widespread relativism in aesthetics, it has come about that art cannot be evaluated in accordance with any objective criteria. Rather art must be evaluated in accordance with credentials of the artist. But these credentials are necessarily something . . . . Continue Reading »
Sesame Street turns forty this week. And, if you’re under forty, I’ll bet just seeing those words in type means a theme song is now running through your head. That’s because the children’s educational television show has worked itself through an entire generation of American . . . . Continue Reading »
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