The post yesterday from Christopher Tollefsen about homeschooling referred to the vocation of a child. Luther too said that being a child is a vocation, just as being a husband, wife, father, or mother is a calling from God. So, what is involved in the
According to a new report received by the White House, American foreign policy is hindered by its secularism and needs to factor religious issues into its dealings with other countries: American foreign policy is handicapped by a narrow, ill-informed and “uncompromising Western secularism” that feeds
Tom Blumer reminds us of what has long been known, that big businesses often oppose free market economics, preferring to squelch competition and gain advantages through government subsidies: That business leaders are frequently all too willing to sell out the core principles of the free
Thanks to Justin Taylor for showing me this article by Christopher O. Tollefsen, Are There Harms of Home Schooling? by Christopher O. Tollefsen, philosophy professor at the University of South Carolina. He takes out some recent academic attacks on homeschooling and builds a case for
Archaeologists have uncovered a temple complex in Turkey that they say is the oldest man-made structure ever found. It includes 17-foot-high T-shaped monoliths covered with realistic carvings of animals and the hunt. Not only that, archaeologists think that this temple may be the source of
Jaron Lanier was one of the inventors of “virutal reality,” but now he is saying that the internet has turned into a collectivist monster. From a review of his book entitled You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto: A self-confessed “humanistic softie,” Lanier is fighting
It is now possible to get this blog regularly downloaded on your Kindle. Click here. (Thanks to Joe G for suggesting this and to Paul McCain for telling me how to do it.)
Here is an unusually lucid and helpful piece of journalism, explaining exactly what the new credit card law will do: Credit cards then and now: A look at how the new law changes the rules – latimes.com. Here is an even more lucid and helpful
I am very glad to see a post from Anthony Sacramone–a.k.a. Luther and the Movies and Strange Herring– at First Thoughts and wish he would start up another blog of his own, so much have I missed his madcap theologizing. But this post I don’t
Two important Christian institutions of higher education have appointed new presidents. Baylor University has chosen Ken Starr. Best known as the special prosecutor in the Bill Clinton/Monica Lewinsky affair, Starr has been a law school administrator at Pepperdine with loads of academic credentials. This still
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