During the Great Depression, thousands of Okies left the dust bowl that was the Sooner State for brighter prospects in California, as well as other states. Now, during the Not-So-Great Depression, thousands of Californians, as well as denizens of other states, are flowing to Oklahoma.
I’m on the road, down south. Saturday night in my motel room I surfed channel after channel of TV preachers. I became weirdly fascinated and watched them to get a sense of what they were teaching. I heard an evangelist of the prosperity gospel (using
What do you think of Dinesh D’Souza’s thesis–developed in his new book The Roots of Obama’s Rage–that Barack Obama and his convictions can best be explained in terms of his father’s anti-colonialism? Here Mr. D’Souza summarizes his argument: But who was Barack Obama Sr., and
I can’t believe I missed this critique of PowerPoint in Wired by Edward Tufte, which came out a year ago: Imagine a widely used and expensive prescription drug that promised to make us beautiful but didn’t. Instead the drug had frequent, serious side effects: It
The unedited version of one of the questionsin the interview the Washington Examiner did with me: 3. Do colleges and universities bear a responsibility to nurture the spiritual lives of their students? If so, how are they doing, or how could they do better? I
In our efforts to raise the quality of discourse in American politics, let us try something different. We will take two arguments on opposing sides of an issue. We will then discuss which makes the best case. Kirk Anderson alerted me to two columns on
Maslow’s hierarchy of needs has been a landmark of psychology, used in education and even church ministries. Now some psychologists are revising his model, making the pinnacle not “self-actualization” but, in the words of a Christianity Today column by Elrena Evans, “something more self-giving”: Psychologists
There wasn’t room for everything that I said in that interview the Washington Examiner did with me. So as not to waste anything, I’ll post the outtakes here: 1. A recent Pew study found that atheists and agnostics scored higher on a religion quiz than
My point was apparently not clear in yesterday’s post about “government as a force for secularization.” I’m trying to think through the history of conservative Christian’s stance towards politics. There was indeed a time when many if not most conservative Christians were politically liberal. I
Al Mohler calls “pro-family” activists on a major blind spot: As [University of Washington] Professor [Mark] Smith surveyed the front lines of the culture war, he was surprised, not so much by the issues of hot debate and controversy, but by an issue that was
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