Instead of Berbers, ‘Arabs’, Turks, and other Muslim groups, we have to our south Mexico. Maybe we could consider ourselves relatively fortunate because of this. The best book in English on Mexican culture in recent times that I know of […]
Howard Ahmanson
My Cartesian Moment: How I Got Repoliticized
After I became a Christian in 1973, I lost interest in politics for a while. Partly, I was learning about new dimensions of reality above and below the earthly that were fascinating. But also, the view that I was getting […]
Time to Stop Using Political Terminology for Theological and Moral Views
Some portions of the American church, it is asserted, have gotten much more politicized in recent years. It is at the point where many want to ditch the word ‘evangelical’, because ‘evangelical’ is seen by the public as a political […]
Reno vs. Sirico: A Debate on Economic Justice
I rarely link to videos, much less watch them myself. But this one I actually did. It contains a debate between two scholars on economic justice, both of them, interestingly enough, identified as ‘conservative’. They are Rusty Reno, editor of First […]
Tim Draper’s Latest ‘Three Californias’ Plan is not Acceptable
Tim Draper, the Silicon Valley tycoon who gave us the ‘Six Californias’ plan a couple of years ago, has come up now with a ‘Three Californias’ plan. It is not acceptable in its current form. The main point of dividing […]
Why Didn’t Harvey Weinstein Get His Face Slapped?
My wife’s grandmother, who grew up around the turn of the last century, would tell my wife, “Never be afraid to slap ‘em and walk home” in reference to predatory young men. And evidently such men have existed for a […]
The Deals
There has been some unhappiness among the ‘base’ about President Trump’s recent agreement which might mean the continuation of Obama’s order protecting the Dreamers, those who were undocumented immigrants as children. Excuse me. Mr. Trump was known for writing a […]
Drawing Lines: The Fences of the Church
The modern Church tries to be open to as many as possible, in order that as many as possible might hear the Gospel. Jim Belcher has written about a model of the Church not as a fenced enclosure but as a […]
Did the New Testament Prophesy Islam?
Muslims sometimes claim that the coming of Muhammad is prophesied in John 14 under the name of the Helper. I doubt this; there is not a lot of similarity between the actual work of Muhammad and how the Helper is […]
Did Jesus Give Us Our Individualism?
Patrick Deneen has warned that modern ‘liberalism’, which includes American style conservatism, has stressed the individual and dominion over nature so much as to weaken community. In trying to liberate the individual, the state, and for conservatives the market, expand to protect […]