I just finished reading part of a transcript from an interview on MSNBC this morning of Howard Dean, former governor of Vermont, and reliable liberal. The topic was the massacre of twelve employees of a Paris magazine that had spoofed the prophet Muhammed with a cartoon picture with caption. All I can say is, “Wow!” […]
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Are Terrorists Islamic?
07 Jan 2015
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Remarks on Religious Freedom
10 Oct 2014
I was asked to speak at the Religious Freedom Summit that is still going on at Cedarville University. What follows is a copy of my remarks. They were lightly edited and altered when delivered since I did not read the text. *** Our tendency, when we think of religious freedom or anything else, is to […]
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Keynes and the Thought Life
10 Oct 2014
The Bible frequently reminds us of the importance of our thought life. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind. (Romans 12:12) Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there […]
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The feature article this week by Dr. Tison notes how Peter Conn recently wrote that Christian colleges and universities should not be accredited because they indoctrinate rather than educate. He said that they violate the foundational principle of higher education by not embracing the rational empiricist approach to knowledge exclusively. Because Christian educators recognize that […]
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Tish Warren found out that she was the wrong kind of Christian for Vanderbilt. The fact that she was not a fundamentalist, and that her group (affiliated with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship) generally welcomed a very broad range of Christian ideals did not matter much to university leadership. It didn’t matter to them if we were […]
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I was sitting (lying is more like it) on my couch asking myself why I can’t seem to think of something to write about the last week or two. Yes, I am busy, no doubt. But as I pondered I realized that I was simply overwhelmed with issues and don’t really where to start. With […]
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U.S. Commitment to Religious Freedom in Decline
08 Sep 2014
A Sudanese woman, Meriam Ibrahim, was accused by her own father of illegally converting to Christianity. At one point, he accused her of committing adultery because of her marriage to a Christian man, Daniel Wani, who is also an American citizen. The story is complicated by the fact that her father is a Muslim and […]
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Late Thoughts on Ferguson and Civil Disobedience
22 Aug 2014
Any rational person should wade into the waters surrounding Ferguson, MO very cautiously. Why? We have no idea what happened to touch off the events. We know that a young, unarmed man is dead at the hands of a police officer. We know he was shot six times. We know very little about the event […]
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Islamic Radicalism Part 2
18 Aug 2014
In the previous blog on Islamic ideology I focused on the historical development of the religion of Islam and of the terrorist groups that arose later. But Islam is also a religion in its own right and is based on a written source—the Quran—which is subject to various interpretations. It is true that for a […]
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A few days ago I wrote a blog on bureaucracy and promised to follow it up by addressing the question of the compatibility of this form of organization with Scripture. As Abraham Kuyper once said, there is not one part of the universe that God cannot call His (my paraphrase) and that includes our thinking […]