What My Christian Faith Brings to My Views on Land Use
…this system can be broken. It can probably be bent, like the proverbial arc, toward justice, but I doubt if it will break. I have no easy or simple solutions….
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The Police and the Mental Health People
…Yet most of us have come to depend on police forces to protect us against robbery, murder, and the like, and also to keep dangerous drivers under control. I have…
I am a ‘Social Conservative’ but Not a ‘Christian Nationalist’
…not social issues, and I don’t want to tie them to my ‘social conservatism’. In 1994, I refused to support California’s Proposition 187. I have problems with the ‘undocumented’, and…
Guest Post: “A Tale of Two Sitcoms”
…frightening. Every time Monk touches anything, he needs a wipe. Still, his idea of propriety is a little skewed. He only provides one beer each for the guests at his…
Book Notice: “Losing the Good Portion,” by Leon Podles
…his book, Losing the Good Portion: Why Men are Alienated from Christianity, is devoted to particular problems in the Catholic church. He claims that the problem started in the Middle…
Guest Post: “Individualism and Collectivism Incarnate”
…ignored a greater divide: between identitarian progressives who protest intersectional ‘structures of oppression’ rooted in patriarchy, white supremacy, heteronormativity, and so forth, and traditional progressives who just wanted better wages,…
Why I’m Not Posting Much About the Coronavirus
…be. By mid 2021 we will have at least partly returned to normal life, I hope, and by that time the consequences, and the changes in our attitudes, will be…
Coronavirus and the Lisbon Earthquake of 1755
…this, I was reminded of a passage in Luke’s Gospel that provides some perspective – from Jesus. There were some present at that very time who told [Jesus] about the…
Samuel Francis and the 1990s Shaping of the Trumpian Mind
…Brendan Dougherty. The rise of Trumpism was foreseen by a ‘paleoconservative’ or ‘proto-alt-right’ writer named Samuel Francis in a March 1996 essay, “From Household to Nation: The Middle American Populism…
The Adams Map: A Different Spectrum, A Challenge That Still Speaks to Us
…the Progressive corner, for it illustrates the values of so-called ‘progressives’ and the predominant values of what I call the New West countries, Canada, and Northwestern Europe. I am tempted…