Blogger Matt Perman wrote a good post entitled “Starbucks, Vocation, and The Meaning of the Mundane.” He even included a shoutout to my book about vocation, God at Work: Your Christian Vocation in All of Life ! The other day I came across an excerpt
Blogger Matt Perman wrote a good post entitled “Starbucks, Vocation, and The Meaning of the Mundane.” He even included a shoutout to my book about vocation, God at Work: Your Christian Vocation in All of Life ! The other day I came across an excerpt
Go here for a treasure trove of rare color photos of Depression-era America: Rare Library of Congress colour photographs of the Great Depression | Mail Online. They are of astonishing vividness. These here folks are my people:
The Liberal/Conservative dichotomy does not really explain where people are on the political spectrum. There are different kinds of conservatives and different kinds of liberals. This has been a theme of a number of our blog posts. But now the Pew Research Center has formulated
“Strong” usually means good, and “weak” usually means bad. Ezra Klein says that those positive or negative connotations shouldn’t necessarily apply to the dollar: Sometimes, of course, a strong dollar is in our best interest. And over the long run, a strong economy will produce
The head of the International Monetary Fund, a likely Socialist candidate for the presidency of France, was yanked out of his first class cabin on a plane just before it was set to take off and was arrested for sexual assault. Haggard and unshaven after
I had an epiphany while reading reports of protests in Europe against the various austerity measures being imposed due to the different government’s economic woes: The radical ideology for our postmodern times is anarchism, the rejection of all authority. Let me explain, but first read
As of yesterday, the federal government is officially maxed out on the great national credit card. We reached our credit limit of $14.294 trillion. Government accountants think they can keep the bills paid using accounting tricks until August 2. In the meantime, Congress needs to
From the New York Times: The enormous cache of computer files taken from Osama bin Laden’s compound contained a considerable quantity of pornographic videos, American officials said on Friday, adding a discordant note to the public image of the Islamist militant who long denounced the
From a collection of responses to the PCUSA’s decision to remove the celibacy requirement for single pastors. Donald Fortson III observes that “Church history is crystal clear: Homosexual practice has been affirmed nowhere, never, by no one in the history of Christianity.” Adoption of amdendment
Finally two big-name, legitimate candidates have thrown their hats into the ring, running for the Republican presidential nomination. They are: Newt Gingrich. And Mitt Romney. Those of you whose Christianity shapes your politics, could you vote for either of these guys? Newt has lots of
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