Fear destroys love and love is the only motive for any Christian action. Don’t be confused. Love is not weak, but demands justice for the beloved. Love has mercy, but mercy is not incompatible with a just war. We can do justice without rejoicing in the necessary death of any human being. The attacks on Paris are frightening, but they should not cause Christians to forget their values. We love the poor, the alien, and the refugee. Our God is... Read more
On dark days, the sun still rises. In the darkest night, the moon still shines in a sky of stars. On a day of national sorrow, somebody will be born and her parents will be glad. Some family must have lost a parent on VE Day and so national joy happened with local sorrow. The people of Paris mourn attacks, but in Paris today babies are born, natural death comes, and wedding anniversaries occur. Is it selfish to attend to the... Read more
The United States owes her existence to the Kingdom of France. Today is a good day to remember this fact and stand in solidarity with the present Republic of France. French philosophy, religion, and culture have enriched the United States of America. Millions of us go to visit France to see the roots of much that is good in the world today. When Hope and I went, what we saw gave us hope that the heart of this great nation still was beating.... Read more
At dear old State U, you might find a Christian engineering professor, carefully quiet, and more than one Christian coach on the playing fields, but you will be hard pressed to find the views of the world’s two billion Christians elsewhere. Much of undergraduate education, at even our best schools, is not worth the money people will borrow, being more about getting the “union card” into the establishment than what a person will actually learn. I have heard from numerous... Read more
There are three things for which I hope I would die: God, country, and family, but there are three basic ideas that no free woman or man should betray if they work in education. Maybe I would not die for these ideas, but I would never work for a school that betrayed those ideals because such a place would be no school whatsoever. We must educate dialectically and the dialectic is dangerous. The essence of education is learning to ask better... Read more
Yale does research magnificently and prepares graduates for the present upper class. University of Missouri does research well and prepares graduates to work for Yale graduates in the present upper class. Both schools are broken and by imitating them, Christian colleges are not always better. Google American university in the news and you will get the problem. If you are borrowing tens of thousands of dollars to be taught by part-time teachers or full time ideologues, you already know the... Read more
Nobody I know is mad at the red Starbucks’ coffee cup, but plenty of people in my world don’t like the media taking on Dr. Ben Carson. Those good folk have a point: Republican candidates get hit by the mainstream media very hard all the time. Clinton gets hit when there is a left-of-Clinton viable alternative. Now that the media knows the limits to the Bern, she is back in her protected bubble. One Worry Partly Resolved Some in my world... Read more
Most people shade the truth at times. I know I have said things I should not have said. With social media, we all face greater scrutiny. Let’s assume grace, mercy, and forgiveness. We will judge our leaders with the judgment by which we want to be judged! Yet there is a style of deception that is becoming more common in politics. President Clinton was the master of this tricky way of speaking. He could say something true that would leave... Read more
You don’t have to believe the “mainstream media.” Ben Carson could settle one question right now and is choosing not to do so. That should increase worries about his truthfulness. You don’t have to trust a single reporter. Dr. Ben Carson is making his situation worse all by himself and I do not understand why he is doing so. The Wall Street Journal ran a story showing they had been unable to verify an anecdote that Dr. Carson had told... Read more
Forget Politico. Assume HRC is a liar and disqualified for President. I do. Dr. Ben Carson is still in trouble. His backstory is at times unverifiable and at others times doesn’t fit the memory of any other witness. We know he tells a moving story about a Yale class that did not exist as he described it. I will try to demonstrate why what I found on social media and through Google made me less likely to believe Dr. Carson’s retcon of his... Read more
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