I hate to so severely disagree with an otherwise insightful Christian writer, but I am forced to take issue forcefully with an article by Cal Thomas, a syndicated columnist, and a long-respected Christian cultural critic, in a Fox News Online Opinion column of September 11, 2015, entitled “America has never been a ‘Christian’ nation. Kim […]
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This is Part Two of my long blog concerning Pope Francis’s global climate change (and generally environmental and poverty focused) encyclical Laudato Si, issued last Thursday. I am a little to sorry to say this part will be at least as long as the first, but look at this way: You could read the full […]
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The “Reality Crisis” and the Christian
20 Jun 2015
I am going to make an argument here that we have now as a society encountered—for perhaps the first time in history—an “ontological crisis.” What do I mean? I mean a crisis about reality. Now I don’t believe this crisis is particularly influential for most ordinary people, nor for most subjects of investigation. A philosopher […]
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Pope Francis issued his long-awaited encyclical today, entitled, Ladato Si or “Praise to You [O Lord].” The 183 page document is concerned with the environment and more specifically with global climate change. I am in the process of making my way through it, but have a few initial comments get things going. First, the Pope […]
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It began when the current Pope, Francis, succeeded Benedict XVI and proceeded to issue an encyclical dealing with economics. Many at the time defended him and argued that he could be interpreted in such a way as not to be overly critical of markets and capitalism. But Francis seems to have continued down an interesting […]
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Bruce Jenner and the Radical LGBT Movement
26 Apr 2015
I caught a snippet of former Olympic athlete Bruce Jenner’s interview about his transgender journey—not to mention its exaltation by the networks, even ESPN. One thing Jenner said however, I did appreciate. He said that he and anyone else ought to have the right to pursue their goals (a paraphrase) as they choose. He apparently […]
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Critics of capitalism or markets are not too difficult to find. They come mainly from the ideological Left, but some also come from what appears to be a non-Leftist position of postmodernism. I actually believe most postmoderns lean Left, some violently, but for now I will let that go. Finally I have found a fairly […]
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The Summit That Was Not
19 Feb 2015
I listened to part of President Obama’s closing speech at the “Anti-extremism Summit” today. And I have read what his associates have said about terrorism, particularly in the context of the ISIS threat. I have reached a conclusion about the president, after hearing and reading his words. But first, what did he say today (February […]
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Did He Really Say That?
11 Feb 2015
Have we come to this point in our culture or is this just an “outlier”? Yesterday, Representative Elijah Cummings (D-Md) made the following statement in a speech to Federal union members: “People do not seem to understand that so many people come to government knowing that they are not going to make the kind of […]
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Hat tip to Foundation for Economic Education: Combatting false narratives on the Progressive Jesus
30 Jan 2015
Its rare when secular websites wade into the faith and economics waters, but the President of the Foundation for Economic Education, Larry Reed, does a fine job here. As Reed argues, The fact is, one can scour the Scriptures with a fine-tooth comb and find nary a word from Christ that endorses the forcible redistribution […]
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