Ted Cruz is trying to get the libertarian vote, now that Rand Paul has dropped out of the race. But Rand’s father, long-time libertarian standard-bearer Ron Paul is insisting that Cruz is no libertarian. After the jump, see excerpts and links to what Cruz is
Read this remarkable meditation from Chad Bird on those times of suffering when God seems unresponsive–asleep, like Jesus in the storm. It’s a powerful example of what I have been calling for, a theodicy centered in Christ. I post an excerpt and a link after
As we’ve been seeing, socialism of various flavors is back in vogue. But, as University of Oklahoma professor David Deming points out, socialism not only has a bad track record, it is problematic morally. (more…)
A professor at the University of Florida is forbidding her students to use words like “husband,” “wife,” “dad,” and “mom” as being insufficiently inclusive. (more…)
A year ago this week, ISIS beheaded 21 Coptic Christians in Libya. I’m pleased that the president of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod issued this video tribute to these martyrs of the Christian faith. (Note the new icon that commemorates the martyrdom.) But aren’t the
Another take on the strange and contradictory political ideologies we are seeing today, such as we posted on yesterday. In a recent book,William Gairdner speaks of “libertarian socialism.” It’s a political philosophy that basically will let the government be as powerful as it wants, as long
The University of Oregon has a statue of Martin Luther King, Jr., in its student union, along with a quotation from his “I have a dream” speech: “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they
The larger the group, the less the individual involvement. That’s a long-established finding of social science. So what does that mean for very large churches? New research has shown that those who attend megachurches are less involved in their congregation than those who attend smaller
Millennials–young adults 30 and younger–like socialism. 85% of that cohort in Iowa and New Hampshire voted for socialist Bernie Sanders, and a majority (53%) in one poll favor socialism over capitalism. At the same time, 64% of this age group do not want the government
A score of a new composition by Mozart has been discovered, the music to an opera libretto. And he wrote it in collaboration with Antonio Salieri, whom the play Amadeus accused of murdering Mozart! I can’t find a recording of what the piece of music
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