In the great picture election, we have a winner. And this election was not polarized or easily disputed because it was UNANIMOUS, a victory of art over technology.
In the great picture election, we have a winner. And this election was not polarized or easily disputed because it was UNANIMOUS, a victory of art over technology.
Americans who don't believe in freedom; sacking Philadelphia; and the "persuadables" who may turn the election.
The French political theorist Pierre Manent says that the church needs to recover its emphasis on Jesus Christ and restore its other traditional teachings. Only then will the church become culturally relevant and influential again. Meanwhile, politics needs to be pragmatic, not motivated by the religion of humanism.
DakotaLutheran complained in a comment about my picture. He challenged me to put up some other pictures of myself and let readers vote on the one they wanted to see on this blog. So, always up for a challenge, though cringing at having to look at myself and having others look at me, I'll do that.
The approach DEI seminars typically use is first to make participants feel guilty by exposing their hidden prejudices. Then they make participants fearful about losing their jobs and breaking the law for those prejudices. What this does is make participants angry, defensive, and more biased. So says two social scientists, including an author of DEI curriculum.
Some Republican candidates think being pro-life means allowing abortion until 6 weeks or 15 weeks. Such limits cut down on the number of abortions--which is a worthy goal--but they still snuff out the life of a child.
Donald Trump won pro-lifers' support by promising to appoint Supreme Court justices who would overturn Roe v. Wade. And he delivered. But now he seems to be turning against pro-lifers and their cause.
The source of anti-phonics reading curriculum is shut down, a Lutheran woman loses her job for participating in a church activity, and at least some police in the UK decide not to prosecute silent prayer.
The New Right has been mocking "zombie Reaganism" and the limited government, free market, individual liberty agenda that his brand of conservatism stood for. They say those policies are out of date and their advocates "don't know what time it is." Actually, though, many of the problems Reagan dealt with successfully are the same problems we face today.
The authors of "The Great Dechurching" on the dramatic drop-off of church attendance and affiliation give some counter-intuitive information that Christians who would like to reverse these trends need to be aware of.
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