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C.S. Lewis

The Political Mistake I Think I Made

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  • Religion
April 24, 2025April 25, 2025
Author: Howard Ahmanson

I don’t have any problem with legislating morality.  Would that all our laws were moral instead of about advantages for privileged and powerful groups!  But rereading C. S. Lewis, I was reminded that the problem isn’t legislating morality.  It’s legislating […]

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Why I Am Not a ‘Christian Nationalist’

  • Politics,
  • Religion
February 26, 2024February 29, 2024
Author: Howard Ahmanson

I was the old style of Religious Right, and I make no apologies, but I don’t consider myself to be a Christian Nationalist.  This is, however, a distinction that is probably too subtle for the media to understand.  I am […]

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Bringing Back the Great Commission? 

  • Religion
November 3, 2023November 4, 2023
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Just the other day I was behind a car that had painted on its rear, “Smile! Jesus loves you!”  I am not sure that the person who did that was really evangelizing, also known as obeying the Great Commission (Matthew […]

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Book Notice: David Brooks, The Road to Character

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July 6, 2021July 10, 2021
Author: Howard Ahmanson

David Brooks, in his recent book, The Road to Character, makes a distinction between two kinds of virtues and tells us we need to be more concerned about ‘legacy virtues’ and not just the ‘résumé virtues’ that give us success in […]

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Pornographic Ideas?

  • Culture,
  • Politics
April 20, 2021December 7, 2021
Author: Howard Ahmanson

In every society, even those that profess freedom of speech, there are ideas and images that are perceived as too corrupting to be expressed or uttered.  We used to think this way about pornography.  Now we think this about certain […]

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Individual Responsibility in Ezekiel

  • Culture,
  • Religion
September 11, 2020September 1, 2020
Author: Howard Ahmanson

The heresy of ‘critical theory’ has revived ideas of guilt inherited by, or inherent in, groups, such as genders, races, or economic classes.  The Prophet Ezekiel has some choice things to say about all this.  In our time there is […]

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The Police and the Mental Health People

  • Culture
July 20, 2020July 14, 2020
Author: Howard Ahmanson

What is to be done about the police and the police culture?  Some say ‘spend less money on them’.  Some say what we used to call ‘integrate’.  Some say ‘teach them to use nonviolent coercion, like mental health aides’.  But […]

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Merry Christmas [All Three of Them]

  • Culture,
  • Religion
December 23, 2019December 23, 2020
Author: Howard Ahmanson

C.S. Lewis, in an essay called “What Christmas Means to Me,” declared that there are three Christmases that are celebrated simultaneously:  the incarnation of God the Son in the person of Jesus Christ, the merrymaking around the solstice, and the […]

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The Sin of Entitlement

  • Religion
August 22, 2018January 4, 2021
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Early in my Christian life I was struck by a fascinating quote in C. S. Lewis’ Screwtape Letter #21.  On the sin of peevishness, he wrote, Men are not angered by mere misfortune but by misfortune conceived as injury.  And […]

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What Christian Reconstruction Gave Me

  • Religion
August 14, 2018November 4, 2023
Author: Howard Ahmanson

As everyone who investigates me online knows, in my 30s I was a Christian Reconstructionist.  Part of the appeal of that to younger people in that era was the specific blueprints for society and personal action that seemed to fill […]

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