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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Did He Really Say That?
11 Feb 2015
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The President’s History Lecture
06 Feb 2015
On January 5, President Obama, in a speech at the annual National Prayer Breakfast, equated the current jihadist threat with “terrible deeds committed in the name of Christ.” Read the entire speech to get the full context. But if you do, you will find President Obama bending over backward to find some moral equivalency between […]
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Legal Niceties? Or Necessities?
29 Jan 2015
It now seems that in at least a few locations in the United States—not Great Britain—we are seeing “voluntary” Sharia law courts. As one journalist put it, this is how the formal Sharia law courts began in England. First it was simply voluntary. One could opt to have one’s case heard by a group of […]
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Are Terrorists Islamic?
07 Jan 2015
I just finished reading part of a transcript from an interview on MSNBC this morning of Howard Dean, former governor of Vermont, and reliable liberal. The topic was the massacre of twelve employees of a Paris magazine that had spoofed the prophet Muhammed with a cartoon picture with caption. All I can say is, “Wow!” […]
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Remarks on Religious Freedom
10 Oct 2014
I was asked to speak at the Religious Freedom Summit that is still going on at Cedarville University. What follows is a copy of my remarks. They were lightly edited and altered when delivered since I did not read the text. *** Our tendency, when we think of religious freedom or anything else, is to […]
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Keynes and the Thought Life
10 Oct 2014
The Bible frequently reminds us of the importance of our thought life. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind. (Romans 12:12) Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there […]
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The feature article this week by Dr. Tison notes how Peter Conn recently wrote that Christian colleges and universities should not be accredited because they indoctrinate rather than educate. He said that they violate the foundational principle of higher education by not embracing the rational empiricist approach to knowledge exclusively. Because Christian educators recognize that […]
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Tish Warren found out that she was the wrong kind of Christian for Vanderbilt. The fact that she was not a fundamentalist, and that her group (affiliated with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship) generally welcomed a very broad range of Christian ideals did not matter much to university leadership. It didn’t matter to them if we were […]
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I was sitting (lying is more like it) on my couch asking myself why I can’t seem to think of something to write about the last week or two. Yes, I am busy, no doubt. But as I pondered I realized that I was simply overwhelmed with issues and don’t really where to start. With […]
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U.S. Commitment to Religious Freedom in Decline
08 Sep 2014
A Sudanese woman, Meriam Ibrahim, was accused by her own father of illegally converting to Christianity. At one point, he accused her of committing adultery because of her marriage to a Christian man, Daniel Wani, who is also an American citizen. The story is complicated by the fact that her father is a Muslim and […]
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