Another utopian project bites the dust. It turns out, economics isn’t everything. Global prosperity–based on free trade, interdependency, and globalism–does NOT, as expected, give us world peace. (more…)
Another utopian project bites the dust. It turns out, economics isn’t everything. Global prosperity–based on free trade, interdependency, and globalism–does NOT, as expected, give us world peace. (more…)
In responding to a Contemporary Christian musician who came out as gay, saying that she is convinced that God accepts her just as she is, Robert George draws on Plato, who said that there are three forms of atheism: (1) Not believing that God or
We felt good that we killed Osama bin Laden and seemed to have defeated al-Qaeda. But they were nothing compared to the resurgent jihadist army of the Islamic State (formerly known as ISIS, most recently calling themselves ISIL, for “Islamic State of Iraq and the
Conde Nast Traveler has conducted a survey to find the friendliest and the unfriendliest cities in the world and in the United States. See the lists after the jump. Sound about right? What does this tell us about the various cultures represented? (more…)
Last Sunday, the sermon was about that puzzling passage in which Jesus seems at first to reject the Canaanite woman (Matthew 15:21-28). Pastor Douthwaite solved that puzzle in a definitive way in a sermon that was incredibly profound and helpful. (more…)
We’ve blogged about the militarization of the police (here and here), but what about the shooting of Michael Brown by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri? Some say the 18-year-old was just minding his own business walking down the street when the police officer killed
Douglas Wilson, who is associated with the “Federal Vision” movement, weighs in on the Crypto-Lutheran controversy within Calvinism. Read his whole post, but I give an excerpt after the jump. (more…)
Why would police officers, as in those in Ferguson, Missouri, wear green camoflage jungle fatigues? If it’s necessary to hide from urban bad guys, they should wear black, grey, and dirty white camoflage so as to blend in with asphalt, concrete, and dilapidated houses. (Like
Feminists make a distinction between “sex,” which has to do with biology, and “gender,” which has to do with culture; thus, gender roles are changeable and interchangeable with those of men, having nothing to do with an individual’s sex. But now sex is held to
A district attorney who was in charge of the public integrity unit (!) was convicted of drunk driving. So Texas governor Rick Perry called on her to resign. If she didn’t resign, he said, he would veto the funding for her office. (Which he did.)
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