More from the CIRCE conference, from a talk by think-tank veteran Barbara Elliott: From 1901-1987, various governments took 207,500,000 lives. The number of people killed by their own governments was approximately 169,000,000. The Soviet Union killed 62,000,000. (Stalin alone: 42,000,000) Communist China: 35,000,000. Nazi Germany:
Something else I learned at the CIRCE conference: In the heyday of Soviet Communism, the penalty for possessing a Bible was 3 years in prison. Think of that the next time you dare to read that dangerous book.
I’ve been at the CIRCE conference in Houston, which offered not only tips for classical education but, what is supremely classical, actual content. I learned some things that I’ll be posting on this blog. For example, we had several presentations that drew on Russell Kirk,
Baylor University went through another president, this time firing John Lilley. He had only been at the Baptist university for three years. The previous president, Robert Sloan, was also forced out, but for different reasons. As I understand it, Dr. Sloan pushed through a plan
Some 200,000 Germans came out to hailBarack Obama . Does that make you like him more–after all, he would surely make America more popular around the world–or does it make you like him less, with global politicking and his talk of “global citizenship” giving you
So, what do you think about the proposals to to lower the national speed limit to 55 m.p.h. as a way to save gasoline and thus lower prices?
The Russian Orthodox church is calling on the Russian government to denounce communism. OK, it’s a little late, but good on them. In studying the different theological positions relating Christianity and culture, I find the Orthodox church to be something of a puzzle. It doesn’t
Here is what I was referring to in my coffee post: Calvin’s doctrine of vocation tends to emphasize working for the glory of God. That CAN result in doing things in isolation, a perfectionism that can be seen as “doing something for God,” possibly degenerating
More thoughts on coffee and on the bigger issues of vocation and striving for excellence. Consider this article on really, really good coffee houses: Lana Labermeier, who opened Big Bear Cafe in the Bloomingdale neighborhood of Northwest Washington in June 2007, shares Gwathmey’s attention to
The notable Christian thinker Peter Leithhart has written an essay entitled Why Evangelicals Can’t Write on the difficulty evangelicals seem to have in writing good fiction. It all comes down, according to Leithart, to the colloquy at Marburg where Zwingli rejected Luther’s affirmation of the
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