The End of the Myth of the ‘Conservative White Gene’
…‘oppressor’. Sixteen years ago, the results of Proposition 8 in California should have put an end to that myth. The definition of marriage as between a man and a woman…
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Why I Am Not a ‘Christian Nationalist’
…probably too subtle for the media to understand. I am not a Christian Nationalist. To understand the distinction I make between Religious Right and Christian Nationalist, you need to understand…
Bringing Back the Great Commission?
…you. And as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything. But you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood. And for your lifeblood…
What Being against ‘CRT’ and ‘Wokeness’ Should Not Mean
…unpopular stand. But I am concerned how this campaign might be misused. First, ‘anti-wokeness’ does not mean we sugarcoat American history. No, we probably can’t list every lynching in our…
Timothy Snyder on the History Behind the Ukraine War
…. .the Richard C. Levin professor of history at Yale,” [as stated in the book jacket] but he is also a permanent fellow of the Institute for Human Sciences in…
Croquet, Golf, and Conspicuous Consumption
…life and, yes, for some, even the spiritual. See my old post “Why There’s Little Intellectual Life in Orange County.” While I write this, I do think of those who…
Building on Greenfields
…cannot easily relocate. [Meanwhile, certain water-sucking crops like almonds are probably already doomed. Texas produces pecans; maybe they could handle almonds too]. But assuming that there are areas where new…
Book Notice: David Brooks, The Road to Character
…to the Promised Land leads past Sinai.” [Problem of Pain, Harper Collins (2001), p. 59]. Brooks has at least taken us as far as ‘Sinai’, even though, despite his reference…
The Official Blog of Howard Ahmanson Jr.
…well as life issues, particularly the beginning and ending of human life. Born in Los Angeles in 1950, Ahmanson, is a graduate of Occidental College and holds a master’s degree…
Individual Responsibility in Ezekiel
…probably not the Prophet Daniel, who was in his early twenties in Nebuchadnezzar’s court at the time. The mystery was solved when some tablets were discovered in Ugarit making reference…