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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?

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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

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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

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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]

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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

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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

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August 14, 2018March 31, 2020
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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9/11, Ten Years Later

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November 1, 2011August 30, 2022
Author: Howard Ahmanson

When the 9/11 attacks happened, ten years ago, we knew that we didn’t like it.  But we in the Western World were forced to think about the delicate question of, if we were against this, what were we for?  Were […]

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I was saddened to learn about the death last summer of the Evangelical Christian activist and author Ron Sider (1939–2022). I’ve always found his ideas thought-provoking and have agreed with him in somewhat unexpected ways: https://howardahmansonjr.com/2023/01/ronald-j-sider-1939-2022-on-a-most-conscientious-believer/

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Despite weaknesses and economic errors, Ron Sider was a true believer; he didn't care about being ‘trendy’, ‘cool’, or appealing to any establishment, whether the ‘woke’ establishment of our society or the bourgeois establishment of Evangelical churches: https://howardahmansonjr.com/2023/01/ronald-j-sider-1939-2022-on-a-most-conscientious-believer/

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Ronald J. Sider (1939-2022): On a Most Conscientious Believer: https://howardahmansonjr.com/2023/01/ronald-j-sider-1939-2022-on-a-most-conscientious-believer/

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