History is repeating itself as the Fall of Saigon is being replicated in the Fall of Kabul. After 20 years of heroic sacrifice on the part of our military men and women, the U. S. government is abandoning Afghanistan to the Taliban. We did not learn the lessons of the Vietnam War, and our failures will have dire consequences.
A historian writes about the attempt of some Buddhists in the Soviet Union to change their teachings to accord with Communism and thus avoid persecution. But the tactic of cultural conformity, as proposed by every form of liberal theology, just does not work.
In my opinion, informed by decades of literary study, one of the greatest stories in literature is "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight." It has inspired a contemporary film, "The Green Knight", which--though well-done in many respects--completely reverses the medieval tale's original meaning, perhaps suggesting where our post-Christian mentality is heading.
Worshipping with a hymnal has many advantages over projecting praise songs over a screen. And those advantages are not just matters of musical "style," as in preferring traditional songs to contemporary ones. Rather, they are very practical. So argues a writer for National Review. I also offer my experience helping with the development of the Lutheran Service Book.
The bipartisan $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill includes a provision requiring all new car makers to build in alcohol-detection devices that would make it impossible for drunk or impaired drivers to start their cars.
The eviction moratorium fiasco exemplifies much that is bad and incompetent about our government.
On August 7, 2021, Jackie and I will have been married 50 years. We did not follow conventional wisdom in waiting to get married until we were out of school, established in our careers, etc. I was 19. We had little money and few possessions. But we were profoundly happy.
A Harvard history professor sees parallels between our cultural problems and those of the 14th century, which prompted Petrarch to the educational reforms that led to the Renaissance. The professor thinks something similar could happen again. He is advocating, in effect, classical Christian education.
Woke culture is now going beyond the humanities and the social sciences to the hard sciences. This is particularly becoming a problem in medical schools, where, in many cases, professors and scientists are not allowed to teach about, study, or even bring up the subject of biological sex, for fear of being branded "transphobic."
Sports have become depressing. Everywhere I look--the Olympics, professional sports, college athletics--I see scandal, controversy, bad attitudes, and other reasons for disillusion. Am I the only one who feels this way?
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