The impossibility of California's reparation plans has a connection to Holy Week. We may feel guilty and want to make up for what we did. But we cannot pay for our sins. We owe too much and have too little to pay with. But Jesus has paid it all, not with gold and silver but with His holy, precious blood.
Values once associated with Americans and American culture--such as the importance of patriotism, religion, hard work, and family--are in sharp decline. But the importance of money is way up.
According to Edmund Burke, political religion has "no efficacy," even to do what it intends. But transcendent religions do have “efficacy.” Though this is not their focus, they even have political efficacy, since they force human beings and their institutions to be humble, which is a prerequisite for ordered liberty.
The six martyrs of Nashville, Getting Trump, and the Metaverse goes bust.
Here is what I got when I told ChatGPT to "Write a post for the Cranach blog."
Find something interesting on the internet, link to it or give the web address, and then say something about it.The rest of us can then comment on your post via the "reply" feature, thus starting individual discussion threads.
Textual editors are scholars who restore literary works by recovering the author's intentions. That involves working with the original manuscripts and sorting out changes made by the publisher from those made by the author. This has a bearing on today's controversies over "sensitivity readers" and the bowdlerization of authors for offending woke sensibilities.
As Artificial Intelligence is getting better, human intelligence is getting worse. A study has found that IQ scores, which had been rising throughout the 20th century, have been falling throughout the 21st century.
C. S. Lewis is known for his Christian apologetics and his imaginative fiction, but he also wrote about politics. Specifically, his concerns about tyranny and totalitarianism, which, he said, often emerge as a response to people's fears and the state's promise to "make us good."
Jews have the best reputation and Evangelical Christians have the worst. People are falling in love with their Chatbot virtual companions. Scientists have generated mice without mothers. And government expands with a crisis but never contracts once the crisis is over.
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