I’ve been reading the Psalms and I keep coming across texts that I’ve usually skimmed over but that speak in a startlingly direct way to contemporary questions. I’ve blogged about some that deal with aesthetic issues and with artists. Here is one that deals with scientists:
There is an astonishing article in the (liberal) Vox by the (liberal) Emmett Rensin entitled “The Smug Style in American Liberalism: How liberals came to look down on the people they once tried to help.” It castigates liberals for their Daily-Show habit of mocking those they
Boredom has been called the spiritual problem of our age. Why is it a spiritual problem? The old theologians called it acedia,”a state of listlessness or torpor, of not caring or not being concerned with one’s position or condition in the world. . . .The best-known
Still more from the Bible on the arts from passages I’ve always skimmed over! In the first verse of Psalm 108, a psalm of David, we read “I will sing and make melody with all my being!” So singing and making melody (I suppose that
George Will has discerned four core tenets of progressivism. See them after the jump. Where do you see these ideas being manifested in, for example, the Democratic presidential campaigns and in academic speech codes? Those of you who are progressives, do you agree that this
Great Britain is getting ready to vote on whether or not to exit the European Union, a cause that is going by the name “Brexit.” Though surely whether or not to do that is the business of the British people, President Obama has weighed in
We have been blogging about Muslims converting to Christianity, often because they have had a vision of Jesus. After the jump is an account of a specific Islamist, who had been plotting against a former Muslim who had become a Christian pastor. The story lacks
The plan was originally to drop Alexander Hamilton on the $10 bill and replace him with a woman. But that was before the hit Broadway musical Hamilton. So Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew decided to replace Andrew Jackson, the Democrat responsible for the Trail of Tears, instead.
The eccentric, brilliant, musical artist known as Prince has died. He was 57. The cause of death has yet to be determined. Prince Rogers Nelson, who once changed his name to an ideogram, was a life-long Minnesotan. He was fiercely protective of his music, tightly
More aesthetics in the Bible, from passages that I had never noticed before: Psalm 101, identified as “a Psalm of David,” reflects specifically on singing and making music. It begins: I will sing of steadfast love and justice; to you, O Lord, I will make
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