Saying something with an intent to deceive is hard not to call a lie. Now perhaps we can forgive politicians (or the rest of us) who pick up too quickly an idea that we hear about without fully understanding its validity. But if challenged on it, we should be willing to adjust our perspective when […]
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Yes, repeating something true to intentionally deceive is a lie. The case of the (missing) gender pay gap
15 Sep 2017
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Culture wars and transgender-ism are inescapable
05 Sep 2017
In The Fellowship Of The Ring, Frodo “wished the ring had never come to me,” to which Gandalf responded, “So do I, and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.” […]
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The broader Christian community continues to struggle with how to engage the culture in the ongoing sexual revolution–how do we hate the sin and love the sinner? There seems to be a consensus that what was done in the past was at a minimum strategically ineffective, and that a new path forward must be forged. […]
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Weeping for Charlottesville
14 Aug 2017
One of the practical applications of the Christian walk is found in Romans 12:15, “Rejoice with those who rejoice and weep with those who weep.” Today there is a family weeping for the loss of their daughter, a victim of the manifestation of one person’s hatred toward others. It is, of course, easy to simply […]
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We haven’t really touched on the economy in a while, so I’ll briefly hit some of the latest news and invite your discussion in the comments. First up is the state of the markets. Many Berean readers know that I’m suspicious of the markets, and have been for years, since valuations by most conventional measures […]
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Bigger government means less tolerance
28 Jul 2017
Many Americans of all political stripes consider the heated level of political rhetoric to be harmful to our country, and the recognition that we’re very divided is not generally seen as a good thing. Yet I think we often fail to see the reason why there is seemingly more division. We blame the 24 hour […]
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Dick Armey, the former majority leader of the House of Representatives during the 90s, used to say something to the effect of “Republicans are always afraid you won’t understand the issue; Democrats are always afraid you will” Democrats seemingly could care less about reams of data, but live and die by the anecdote–they just need […]
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Please, let me pay more taxes!
18 Jul 2017
And it must be compulsory, through taxation, as government is “what we do together.” So this past week we saw Seattle pass an income tax (which may be unconstitutional), amid the cry of its citizens to be allowed to pay their fair share. …backers of the measure rallied supporters, including software developer Carissa Knipe, who […]
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From Russia with Love
12 Jul 2017
I don’t pretend to know what is going on in the Russia/Trump imbroglio, but we ought to have a bit of discussion on this, since its all the media will cover in the headlines. First, I will say that I think there is a lot of room for Christians to disagree on the seriousness of the […]
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Henry Hazlitt said: The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists of tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups. The drumbeat gets louder daily about Amazon crushing retailers, and it is […]
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