I have a few questions for thought today. I am not answering them, though the reader may well have some idea where I am on them. So just read and ponder. Please feel free to comment too. I have not read the Iran nuclear deal yet, but I understand it will aid Iran in developing […]
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Some Questions to Ponder: Just Asking
15 Jul 2015
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Cedarville University in The Atlantic
15 Jul 2015
Cedarville University has not starved for attention in recent years. That trend continued yesterday when The Atlantic published David R. Wheeler’s “Gay Marriage and the Future of Evangelical Colleges.” Though Wheeler references a variety of colleges, Cedarville was the most prominently featured. As I noted in a recent post on the Supreme Court’s Obergefell decision, […]
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Today’s blog takes direct aim at our “cultural elites,” including both self-styled elites and governmental elites. The catalyst for this was a statistic I heard coming from the Barna Group. The polling organization was doing surveys on homosexual marriage, freedom of religion, etc. One poll found that about 20% of all adults surveyed believed that […]
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Gay Marriage: When We Lose, We Can Still Win
30 Jun 2015
There is much to say about the Supreme Court’s ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges. For those interested in the text, go here. Just like the march toward gay marriage, the reactions to it have been swift and unrelenting.* Though I am sorely tempted to write more about the actual decision, I would rather focus on our […]
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The Rainbow’s Unfortunate Use last Week
30 Jun 2015
You know, it might seem like a small thing, but the lighting of the White House the evening of the homosexual marriage decision with the colors of the LGBT movement told me something about the people running it—and to a large extent, running our country. Throughout history when military victories were won, the victor was […]
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As many (most?) had expected the Supreme Court held today that homosexual marriage is some sort of fundamental right under the Due Process and Fourteenth Amendment Equal Protection Clauses. The case was decided by a narrow 5-4 majority, with—of course—Justice Anthony Kennedy writing the opinion and the other justices lining up predictably on either side. […]
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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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Academics Weigh in on AP US History Controversy
12 Jun 2015
Over 55 historians recently signed a letter expressing their dissent to the new Framework established by the College Board for AP US History courses all across the country. Over 460,000 students took the AP US History exam in 2014. Each summer, hundreds of AP US History teachers and college professors meet together to grade these […]
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Several years ago, before he fled the great North for the sunny climes of South Beach, Nike ran an advertising campaign that featured simple, black and white clips of LeBron James doing LeBron James sorts of things. The tagline was inspired heresy, “We are All Witnesses.” Hewn by God to play the best game ever […]
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It looks as if the blow-up at Northwestern University has made the liberals very uneasy. A professor there, Laura Kipnis, who admits she herself is liberal and feminist, published an essay in the Chronicle of Higher Education. From an article on the situation by Rod Dreher, in The American Conservative, on June 2, we read […]