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 »
John Mark Reynolds in a comment to my (first!) post at Evangel offered:A child would view Favre well . . . but a real man would see him better. He would glory in his manly exploits as an image of excellence and be provoked to go and do likewise in his own chosen profession.This is in short hoping a . . . . Continue Reading »
Some of my critics claim that I am wrong to tie what happens in the UK to Obamacare. They are wrong. Obamacare envisions instituting centralized cost/benefit/best practices boards that would set the standards of care, what is covered and what not, and eventually who is covered and who . . . . Continue Reading »
Some Christians accept without reservation the teachings of their church, including the status of Scripture as the Word of God, but they nevertheless seldom read it and consequently do not know it very well. This is definitely not true of most evangelicals, who from an early age are taught to read . . . . Continue Reading »
Conversations about evangelicalism —its definition, its essence, its variety, its center and circumference, its history, its self-contradictions and periodic self-reinventions— are things I generally try to avoid. The noise to signal ratio is too high, and the likelihood of talking . . . . Continue Reading »
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