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A Recent History of ‘Skinny Fat’ or How Fit Were People in the Old Days? 

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June 14, 2019May 19, 2020
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Recently in an airport, I saw and bought a rather provocative issue of Scientific American.  The cover declared that humans ‘evolved’ to exercise, while the most similar forms of life – chimpanzees and bonobos –  function very well as couch potatoes, according to […]

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Should Transit-Oriented Housing be Limited to the Carless?

  • Politics
June 11, 2019May 19, 2020
Author: Howard Ahmanson

In addition to the NIMBYs and the YIMBYs, we now have the PHIMBYs:  Public Housing in My Back Yard. This new acronym represents those who believe that public-subsidized housing should be added to our cities, but no private enterprise market-rate […]

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On Political Trust and Media Attention

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  • Politics
June 7, 2019May 19, 2020
Author: Howard Ahmanson

For a long time, we have spoken of elections, in which a President is not on the ballot, as ‘off-year elections’.  I think the Founders would have been horrified by such a notion.  The Congress, they would have thought, should […]

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Christianity and Science: Two Poles of a Biblical World View

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June 4, 2019May 19, 2020
Author: Howard Ahmanson

In C. S. Lewis, God in the Dock, in the essay “Miracles” we read this: The experience of a miracle in fact requires two conditions.  First, we must believe in a normal stability of Nature, which means we must recognize […]

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A ‘Protestant-ish’ Argument for Icons?

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May 29, 2019May 19, 2020
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Is there an appropriate place for icons in the 21st Century Protestant Church?  There’s nothing new about the debate regarding sacred images and iconography, but I’ve gained some recent insights on the subject. In chapter 13 of Diarmaid McCullough’s work, Christianity: […]

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The Real Significance of the Tithe

  • Religion
May 22, 2019May 19, 2020
Author: Howard Ahmanson

The tithe has been a matter of controversy in Jewish and Christian circles, I assume, since it was first promulgated.  [Islam, instead of 10% of income, proposes a contribution of 2.5% of one’s wealth per year.] Early in my Christian […]

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Three New Testament Roots of Economic Liberty

  • Economics,
  • Religion
May 20, 2019
Author: Howard Ahmanson

We do not often think that Jesus Christ and the New Testament justifies capitalism.  To the extent that capitalism means greed and self-indulgence, I should think not!  Greed and self-indulgence are root human sins and will be manifested in any […]

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Why We Need Regionalism

  • Culture
May 9, 2019September 4, 2020
Author: Howard Ahmanson

In our time, politics and culture are increasingly oriented to the national scale on the one hand, and the immediate neighborhood on the other.  A book, The Increasingly United States, by  Daniel J. Hopkins, highlights this.  However, in my view, besides […]

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The USA: First World, Third World, or Western World?

  • Culture
April 8, 2019May 19, 2020
Author: Howard Ahmanson

The United States has always been somewhat ambiguous about whether its primary loyalty was to the European Western World or to the Western Hemisphere (i.e., the Americas).   The Founders thought of themselves as upholding the rights of Englishmen, which they […]

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Dick Dale: 1937-2019

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  • Culture
April 5, 2019May 19, 2020
Author: Howard Ahmanson

I always thought of Dick Dale as a local phenomenon, but his recent death got national coverage.  The most thorough and best article was one in The New Yorker, a magazine which might well have turned up its nose during […]

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Well, in certain circles we’ve had Rook cards for years. Nothing more gender neutral than they. https://notthebee.com/article/in-a-devastating-blow-to-sexism-dutch-woman-creates-gender-neutral-deck-of-cards

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OK then who gets custody of the Republicans? https://disrn.com/news/trump-discusses-creation-of-new-political-party-with-allies

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Calvin didn’t really promote whiteness, because there wasn’t anybody else in Geneva at the time. https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2021-01-19/christian-right-john-calvin-white-supremacy-patriarchy

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