As reported at the Institute for Faith, Work & Economics website, the New York Times published a very interesting editorial piece: Donald Trump and the Rise of the Moral Minority on September 26th. Using the somewhat surprising fact (to me anyway) that Donald Trump is currently the Republican candidate of choice amongst evangelical voters (Washington Post, Boston Globe), Molly Worthen described a rift […]
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The Gospel at Work
06 Oct 2015
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Some recent comments by Ben Carson and a blog I wrote with associated comments from various people, have caused me to write this post as a general response as well as an elaborated examination of the underlying philosophical/theological foundations and the purpose of the United States Constitution—in short, the “theory” of our fundamental law. That […]
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Ben Carson’s Sharia “Slip”
22 Sep 2015
I have just a short comment on Ben Carson’s recent flap over his statement that in essence a Muslim should not occupy the White House. To begin, his comment was ripped out of context. He had argued that a Muslim who supported Sharia Law would not be fir for president. But in addition, he attempted […]
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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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The European Disease
07 Sep 2015
If there is anything more representative of the immense waste, bureaucratic elitism and arrogance, it is this report of the erection of a new, decorative statue of a tree outside the new European Central Bank headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany. The statue, ostensibly of a Walnut tree, cost about $1 million in American dollars. The tree […]
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An interesting subject of discussion the last few days has been the County Clerk of Rowan County, Kentucky, Kim Davis. She has made national news by refusing to issue a marriage license to a homosexual couple, not once, but four times. She now sits in a Rowan County jail, put there after being held in […]
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Technocracy and Human Flourishing
03 Aug 2015
During the Obama administration, and especially the last five years after the passage of Obamacare, we have seen numerous attempts, some successful and others still in the process, to impose more Federal top-down regulations on all sorts of human activities. Besides Obamacare and its 15,000 pages of regulations, we have the massive regulatory scheme flowing […]
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I just finished another book I would commend to our readers. Gregory Alan Thornbury has published Recovering Classic Evangelicalism: Applying the Wisdom and Vision of Carl F. H. Henry. Crossway, 2013. As the title indicates, the author, current president of King’s College in New York City, and erstwhile “geek” (more below), the book represents both […]
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My Berean colleague Mark Smith wrote a very astute piece for this blog on the recent announcement by Ohio Governor Jon Kasich as a candidate for the presidency in 2016. He received an interesting and stimulating comment, to which I wish to reply as a separate blog. If you want the entire comment, go to […]
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Identity Politics Collides with Identity Dignity
20 Jul 2015
Until recently, Rachel Dolezal served as the head of the Spokane chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Recent information has revealed that Dolezal is not African-American as the public had assumed. Her parents, both Caucasian, note that she is not African-American and produced a picture of her as a […]