Frank’s argument that “Government is reformed when men are first reformed” is persuasive, and I doubt that anyone could seriously disagree with it. I was all prepared to raise the issue of Acts 16 and Paul’s strategic use of his Roman citizenship, but . . . . Continue Reading »
I read Doug and Dr. Beckwith here, with Dr. Beckwith amening our radical Presbyterian homeboy, and it all seems very reasonable and humane.Then I open my Bible this morning to Act 26, and I’m reading there about Paul who — as Doug rightly pointed out at his blog — preached the . . . . Continue Reading »
Meta-links, Ben Myers has a bunch of links to good reading. Jews in uniform ... outside Israel. A warning to the West. Georgia on Russia and the Ukraine. On fasting and the spiritual life. On Ms Dunn and the Mao thing. A physicist on the brain. The story behind a song. Finding evil in gender, heh. . . . . Continue Reading »
The talented Matthew Alderman made a comment on my post about redesigning the layout of First Things . He had some good ideas, but along the way, he mentioned one of the all-time great designs for a magazine: the art-nouveau journal Ver Sacrum from the late 1890s: And it reminded me of an idea . . . . Continue Reading »
Now, they’ve gone too far! Two global warming hysterics have argued that owning a dog is a threat to the planet. From a column in the New Scientist:Should owning a great dane make you as much of an eco-outcast as an SUV driver? Yes it should, say Robert and Brenda Vale, two architects who . . . . Continue Reading »
Over at my “Inner Workings” blog I review how the crisis began, republishing material I had gathered and printed in a somewhat different form during 2006 for Cantor Fitzgerald. I showed in some detail during January-February 2006 that foreign flows were massively distorting credit and . . . . Continue Reading »
Fred Sanders makes an important point about the dangers of assumed evangelicalism and the drift we all have to guard against, not only in movements but in our own life. We do have to keep the gospel central in order to guard against this, and although I am glad for the current emphasis upon a . . . . Continue Reading »
In a previous post, I proposed that a portion of the schism between evangelicals and non-evangelicals may be found along the fault-line of local church / hierarchy: Does the hierarchy / denomination serve local churches or do local churches serve the hierarchy / denomination? I lamented the weakness . . . . Continue Reading »
Jewish studies have become a mass-production industry, and the sad story of German Jewry is the subject of innumerable recent tomes. Most of these efforts, strangely, consider Jews without discussing their relationship to God, the Election of Israel, or the religious practices of Jewish . . . . Continue Reading »
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