Happy Vocation Day! Today used to be called Labor Day. (Incredibly, you can still find people who are isolated and out of touch that still call it that.) But thanks to a crusade sponsored by this blog and the activism of its readers, we have
Happy Vocation Day! Today used to be called Labor Day. (Incredibly, you can still find people who are isolated and out of touch that still call it that.) But thanks to a crusade sponsored by this blog and the activism of its readers, we have
A couple of years ago, I wrote a brief article on the doctrine of vocation for Modern Reformation. It explains what the doctrine is, in its different manifestations–including the Four Estates–and why this teaching is so important. The opening paragraphs: “Justification by faith alone” is
I guess I can justify plugging my book on Vocation, seeing as how it is Vocation Day. Go to the right panel of this blog. Notice that we have a whole section devoted to “Books on Vocation.”
You will perhaps recall The great tomato ideological experiment, in which I planted a hybrid tomato, exemplifying the achievements of free market conservatism, and a heritage tomato, exemplifying traditionalist conservatism, which I turned into a the great tomato parable. The hybrid tomato was far more
Joseph Bottum at the First Things blog site discusses a court ruling against home schooling that posits a new requirement for education: A divorced couple’s irreconcilable differences make what seems a very bad occasion for legal decisions with serious First Amendment implications. But that’s what
Music reviewer Dave McKenna puts his finger on an odd phenomenon that tells us a lot about the music industry and pop culture. In a review of a Keith Urban concert, he writes, You’d have to go back to Glen Campbell to find a pop-country
A scandal is breaking out in England over revelations that the National Health Service has been implementing a policy of routinely–and apparently without consulting either the patient or the family–cutting off intravenous food and fluids for patients deemed to be close to death, instead just
Rev. Christopher Jackson wrote me this e-mail: I was thinking recently that a helpful topic for you to take up in these days it the vocation of the unemployed. Specifically, I think it would be interesting to see what the Doctrine of Vocation says about
A number of liberals are becoming harshly critical of President Obama, despite their earlier support: The president won’t be able to ignore the simmering discontent within his own party much longer, the congressman [Alcee L. Hastings, angry that the president has not repealed “don’t ask,
Ted Olsen at the Christianity Today site quotes an editor of Zondervan saying that the Today’s New International Version (TNIV)–the new edition of the NIV that eliminated the “sexist” language of the Bible, even when it meant distorting the Word of God into inaccurate and
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