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Month: July 2015

Why I Am Not a ‘Caucasian’

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July 27, 2015July 3, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

The term “Caucasian” for so-called white people, in reality people of Old World ancestry who are not Negroid or East Asian in appearance, comes from bizarre 19th century racial theories.  It in fact was coined by the German Christoph Meiners […]

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‘Christian Colleges’ for The Heathen?

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July 18, 2015August 21, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

There has been plenty of publicity about “political correctness” on campus and on the extreme sensitivity of today’s generation to “microaggressions”.  I posted “Freedom From Speech” not long ago, getting that title from Greg Lukianoff’s book of that name.  I modestly […]

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Some Things People Can’t See or Understand Anymore

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July 14, 2015July 3, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

In my last post I wrote about how the secular mind can no longer understand the difference between ‘forgiveness’ and ‘tolerance-acceptance-inclusion’.  Things like this are not a surprise; in 1Corinthians 2:14, Paul informs us that “The natural person does not […]

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Forgiveness and ‘Tolerance’ in Charleston

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July 6, 2015July 6, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

There has been some coverage about the ‘forgiveness’ offered to Dylann Roof by some of the Christian parishioners of Emanuel AME church that survived his attack.  Matt Schiavenza in the The Atlantic describes this. [For some other responses as to why […]

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Beijing – At the End of the Road

  • Miscellaneous
July 1, 2015December 9, 2021
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Because Beijing, as the capital and second largest city, gets the most media attention, most people go there first.  We made a point of going there last. The first surprise is that the air there was the clearest we had […]

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I was saddened to learn about the death last summer of the Evangelical Christian activist and author Ron Sider (1939–2022). I’ve always found his ideas thought-provoking and have agreed with him in somewhat unexpected ways: https://howardahmansonjr.com/2023/01/ronald-j-sider-1939-2022-on-a-most-conscientious-believer/

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Despite weaknesses and economic errors, Ron Sider was a true believer; he didn't care about being ‘trendy’, ‘cool’, or appealing to any establishment, whether the ‘woke’ establishment of our society or the bourgeois establishment of Evangelical churches: https://howardahmansonjr.com/2023/01/ronald-j-sider-1939-2022-on-a-most-conscientious-believer/

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Ronald J. Sider (1939-2022): On a Most Conscientious Believer: https://howardahmansonjr.com/2023/01/ronald-j-sider-1939-2022-on-a-most-conscientious-believer/

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