Ethics
My New Year’s Resolution: Be Like Billy Graham
What? Oh, you thought…hahaha! You imagined crusades, dynamic preaching, and conferences with heads of state. No, no. I haven’t visions of preaching to millions nor delusions of grandeur (most of the time). I just read a little book over the Christmas holiday and knew I’d found what I wanted to... »
Making Sarah Palin Look Dumb
It’s too bad that disingenuity, self-interest, and lack of interest in “the facts” seem to drive the political machine. From the AtlanticWire’s “breakdown” of Sarah Palin’s O’Reilly Factor interview November 19, 2009, rebroadcast late December: Palin on Reading O’REILLY: Couric asked you an easy question [about what magazines or newspapers... »
The Manhattan Declaration
Not just any pro-life, pro-family, pro-ethics statement, the Manhattan Declaration is a call to civil disobedience if (when) the government legislates that people of conscience support abortion, eugenics, and same-sex marriages in their professions and with their tax dollars. The last paragraph of the declaration states: “Because we honor justice and the common good, we will... »
On Knowing What We’re Doing: Parents, Education, and Other Things
At Mere Orthodoxy, Jeremy Mann comments on what Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye says about parental vs. public school influence on children. Educators, he states, would do well to remember that “school is not a very powerful force in the lives of many students. School for many is a span of time they... »
On Culture Wars and the National Debt
In a recent Breakpoint Commentary, Chuck Colson points out that The Next Culture War deemed necessary by NYT columnist David Brooks isn’t exactly new. “According to Brooks, while Christians ‘were arguing about sex and the separation of church and state,’ they were ‘oblivious to the large erosion of economic values happening under their... »
It’s not “rape” unless you say it twice in a row.
\”Whoopi Goldberg\’s \”rape-rape\” statement on Roman Polanski\” The obvious denial of the circumstances by outspoken celebrities in support of movie director Roman Polanski cannot be starker than Whoopi Goldberg’s televised “rape-rape” statement on The View a few weeks back. Apparently, many Hollywood celebs say that the judicial system should overlook his physical, emotional, and psychological... »
The Soul of Art and Life
…is hard work, discipline, self-control, and patience, but most of all love for the medium with which one is working, such that one knows it deeply and understands its every characteristic, quirk, and nuance and can employ it most effectively to bring out its most glorious potential. The more I read about the... »
The Dilemma of Modern Western Civilization
A selection from Can Christianity Save Civilization by Walter Marshall Horton, Oberlin College, 1940, Harper & Brothers Publishers, pp 151-153. The Dilemma of Modern Western Civilization: Totalitarianism or Christianity The mention of Communism should remind us that modern Western civilization, whose disintegrating and reconstructive influence upon primitive and oriental culture has been so strong, is itself... »
O’Reilly not Factoring his Own Spin
Over the last few months, prior to abortionist George Tiller’s murder, Bill O’Reilly has made it quite clear that he believes late-term abortion is repugnant. That’s a fact not in dispute and one in which pro life supporters can agree with. Where O’Reilly‘s argument is seriously flawed, and where Joan Walsh, Editor in Chief... »
