My Bereans colleague Bert Wheeler has written  compelling piece here essentially in favor of open immigration.  In theory and in essence I agree with his conclusions, but I would not take such a seemingly broad stance on the issue.  Several things are important to understand.  I believe he would also affirm at least most of […]

Republicans from George Pataki to sitting members of Congress to theologian Wayne Grudem have called for Donald Trump to step down as GOP presidential candidate in recent weeks.  Now, the tables have turned.  The recent announcement by FBI director, Jim Comey to reopen the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s email improprieties has led to calls for […]

Rosaria Butterfield,  who walked away from the lesbian community, argues this in a profound piece over at The Gospel Coalition, where she offers a compelling critique of our cultural surrender: For when we advocate for laws and policies that bless the relationships that God calls sin, we are acting as though we think ourselves more merciful than […]

Mr. Trump blames bad trade deals as helping the Chinese profit at the U.S.’s expense.  Undoubtedly we could have better trade deals, if we made them one-page long rather than the monstrosities that Washington normally cooks up.  Nevertheless, I remain convinced that on balance free trade agreements are beneficial, leading to higher standards of living […]

I am in favor of open immigration. I believe an open immigration policy is consistent with free markets and the Christian worldview. I also believe the policy is consistent the political philosophy which gave birth to the United States of America. Over the past several years, I have posted my rationale for my support of open […]

No matter who you plan to vote for I am seeing some things that really disturb me.  One recent development is the new Wikileaks (not Wikipedia) trove of John Podesta showing communications between Democratic operatives and poll agencies in which the Democrats requested ways to manipulate polls by oversampling certain groups and under-sampling others.  A […]

Do immigrants import their economic (and political) destiny?  And is there any correlation between a past (in some nation) that is anti-market, undemocratic, untrusting and the present state of the nations to which they have migrated in sufficient numbers?  That first sentence is the title of an article in Evonomics: The Next Evolution of Economics, […]

All people are created in the image of God. Some people are granted the grace to believe. Most of our connection to and interaction with one another is because of our basic humanity –  defined and formed by the image of God. Most of Christian’s relationships with people who are not believers is grounded in […]

Another post on the election would almost seem to be cruel.  Aren’t we all exhausted by the rhetoric over the past two (yes, two) years?  But there is something we still need to bear in mind as we go to the polls.  I was reminded of this by an article today by Yuval Levin (http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/441149/protest-vote-congress-yuval-levin) […]

One of the things that dismays me at our culture these days is the ever-increasing number of people who are easily offended.  In fact, in economic terms, I think they have a taste for offense.  It’s as if they are able to feel more self-righteous when they are offended, and hence feel better about themselves because their […]