Christianity, Culture, Vocation
Justin Taylor, the publisher at Crossway and a notable blogger, is running a series on “novels that every Christian should consider reading.” He asked me to write about the great American novel that is Huckleberry Finn. Mark Twain fan that I am, I was glad to do so. [Read more...]
In our postmodern times, morality is supposed to be relative. To speak of “good” and “evil” is to be absolutist and retrograde. But now the atrocities of the Islamic State/ISIS have people recognizing evil once again. [Read more...]
A Texas pro-abortion organization, Fund Texas Women, has announced that it is changing its name to Fund Texas Choice. This is because the reference to “women” excludes trans-sexual individuals who now identify as “men” but who still have female reproductive organs and who may thus get pregnant and “need” an abortion. This is from the announcement:
In order for our organization to provide quality abortion services, we have to make sure that everyone who needs help traveling for their abortion is able to get it. But with a name like Fund Texas Women, we were publicly excluding trans* people who needed to get an abortion but were not women.
Pro-abortion folks typically go on about how abortion is a “difficult decision” that is only taken reluctantly. But now a pro-choicer is waxing indignant about pro-choicers who do that. She says that if women talk that way, it makes it sound as if abortion is a moral issue. [Read more...]
Back when I was in graduate school, I took a course on American English. We studied the history and characteristics of the various American dialects, including that of Tangier Island. This little island in the middle of Chesapeake Bay was settled by English folks from the Cornwall district back in the 1600s. They and their descendants were so isolated–today it’s an hour-and-a-half boat ride from the mainland–that their language and culture have hardly changed over the centuries.
As a 17th century scholar, I have always wanted to visit Tangier Island. So we did. [Read more...]
There is a new word in the political lexicon, gaining currency as Rand Paul builds a following in the high-tech crowd: Conservatarian. A combination of “conservative” and “libertarian.”
So would any of you describe yourselves as Conservatarians? What are its tenets? How is it different from regular old “libertarian”? Or regular old “conservative”? Might this become a winning political ideology? [Read more...]
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