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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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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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 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 […]
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Ephesians 6 and Capitalism
02 Jun 2015
Today we heard a sermon on Ephesians 6: 5-9, the text about how Christian slaves and masters should act toward each other and the proper attitudes they should have. The sermon (and my wife) prompted me to write here on the application of that text to relations in a capitalist-market society. First, the direct and […]
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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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Labels are both handy and hated. In economics, we teach that branding and labels are ways to economize on the costs of information search. So, for example, I go into the voting booth and on many lower-level candidates, I may not have much, if any, information on their positions. But if I see a “D” […]
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