The Canadians may put up with bureaucrats telling them what medicine they can and cannot receive—but we in the US are not so passive. Alas, we could become so if Obamacare passes and we let centralized rationing boards to take control of our entire health care system. If we do, in . . . . Continue Reading »
On Wednesday, November 18, Grammy winning choral conductor Jerry Blackwell will conduct the Chamber Singers of the University of Michigan in the premiere performance of Michael Linton ‘s “Memorial.” The work was inspired by Pope John Paul II’s requiem mass and is dedicated . . . . Continue Reading »
Young preachers, your first few sermons are always terrible, no matter who you are. If you think your first few sermons are great, you’re probably self-deceived. If the folks in your home church think your first few sermons are great, it’s probably because they love you and they’re . . . . Continue Reading »
Culture is wrestling with the nature of humanity. We are experimenting with definitions and with decisions to change fundamental human rights.If it is hard to say what it is to be human, I can say something about what being human is not. For much of my life, I made a basic error about the purpose of . . . . Continue Reading »
Think pastors have a stressful job? They’ve got nothing on the music ministry director. (Why are you laughing? Have you ever tried to choose a hymn.) From CNN:You may not think of people who plan, direct and conduct performances for religious services as being under a particularly high amount . . . . Continue Reading »
Back, again, to my primary social concern: Marxism. No surprise there.The first impression of Marxist motives usually leads us to the idea of statism. The principle that Marx proclaimed, that religion is the opiate of the people, sets the church beneath the state. That may seem more Hegelian than . . . . Continue Reading »
I can’t believe we’ve gone the whole day without any of our Lutheran contributors mentioning Reformation Day. (Um, we do have some Lutherans around here, don’t we? Note to self: Get some Lutherans.)Fortunately, one of my fellow Baptists, Timothy George, founding dean of Beeson . . . . Continue Reading »
Yesterday, at a Heritage Foundation-sponsored event here in Washington, D.C., I had the opportunity to hear researcher Christian Smith present findings from his latest batch of research involving his National Study of Youth and Religion project. Whereas the first round of research focused on . . . . Continue Reading »
Give the familiar Spenglerian theme of demographic death and the end of languages, I thought his readers ought to know about a recent essay by linguist John McWhorter, “The Cosmopolitan Tongue: The Universality of English”.He poses the question:What makes the potential death of a . . . . Continue Reading »
David Paul Deavel has a good write-up in Books and Culture of the resurgent interest in G.K. Chesterton. As someone who is attracted to Chesterton’s creative localism and his critiques of modernity (I once called Orthodoxy the most important book for the twenty-first century and write at . . . . Continue Reading »
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