Both my Bereans colleagues and the many commenters have hit upon a fundamental tension that runs beneath all the talk about whom to vote for this election. Though they might not have realized it they have been raising the very old and very crucial question of whether a nation needs virtuous political leaders to survive […]
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The Limits of Politics and Virtue
04 Oct 2016
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To Vote, or Not to Vote
02 Oct 2016
Evangelicals Disagree President Franklin D. Roosevelt is reported to have said, “Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.” I agree. I also agree that the upcoming presidential election presents one of the most […]
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Happy Birthday US Constitution
17 Sep 2016
It is Constitution Day once again, but because it fell on Saturday this year, I haven’t seen as much publicity. That does not mean that we ought to overlook it. It has now been 229 years since the new United States met to overhaul its first constitution (the Articles of Confederation) and ended up proposing […]
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Even a stopped clock is right twice per day, and Mr. Trump is right much more than that (from an economic perspective). So despite my angst over his posture on immigration and free trade, let’s give Mr. Trump his due. The Fed’s easy money policy is fraught with significant problems, and the Fed itself is institutionally […]
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Miscellaneous Interesting (and Weird) News
13 Sep 2016
There are all sorts of interesting and disturbing issues and events out there in the news these days, some obscure and others more obvious and with greater implications. Below I simply want to list a few I have been reading about in recent days, and then later perhaps write some longer blogs on some of […]
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Power and Its Expressions
06 Sep 2016
We have been here in Washington, DC for about two weeks now and after two prior stays, one in 2013 and another in 1964 (!), I have a few observations about just how big, powerful and even “Messianic” government has become at the federal level, based on what I have seen physically in terms of […]
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Romans 13 and God’s Sense of Humor
29 Aug 2016
For the past several weeks, I have been leading an adult Sunday school series at Calvary Baptist Church in Bellefontaine, Ohio. The topic–politics from a biblical perspective. Such discussions are always a bit touchy since my presentation does not always conform to expected patterns. I spent one lesson exploring our obligations to government as believers. […]
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The Obamacare Slow Leak
22 Aug 2016
Maybe you have read some articles in the past weeks about insurance providers leaving the Obamacare market in some states (I just read another one today). Well, it likely will get worse. Here is what is happening. First we need to understand how Obamacare works. The entire scheme was predicated on the ability to tax […]
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The Majority Wins: But What?
06 Aug 2016
Well, the rage now is politics, electoral politics. My colleague Mark Smith has been busy the past few days addressing Wayne Grudem’s qualified support of Donald Trump for president. I am not going there for now. I wanted to say something about the bigger picture of how and why we got to where we are […]
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Missives from the Morass: DNC Style
29 Jul 2016
The City of Brotherly Shove hosted the Democratic National Convention. Wisely, I did not attend. The DNC was, like its GOP counterpart, a historic affair. At the end of it all, a major party nominated a person uniquely unfit for the presidency. Granted, Hillary Rodham Clinton is a woman, but as she would surely prefer, […]
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