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The Religious Right Failed to See What Was Coming

  • Culture
August 29, 2016August 24, 2022
Author: Howard Ahmanson

We have repeated Francis Schaeffer’s warning about ‘personal peace and affluence’ often at Blue Kennel, but it’s time to do it again.  He declared, back about 1970, that the ‘Silent Majority’, a term Nixon had begun to use, was composed […]

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Do We Have Something to Offer Working Class Whites? An Open Letter to the CCDA Leadership

  • Religion
August 23, 2016July 5, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

In the last couple of years there have been a number of stories about an increase in the death rate of working class whites that has not been paralleled among their African American and Latino counterparts.  At the same time, […]

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Christians May be Decreasing in Number in America, But Not Because of any ‘War’

  • Culture
December 30, 2015July 5, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Jay Michaelson, in The Daily Beast, proclaimed on Christmas Day that there is a decrease in the numbers and influence of Christians in America, but that the “war” on Christianity is a myth.  I’m not sure the war on Christianity […]

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More on the Whole ‘Judeo-Christian’ Meme

  • Culture
December 2, 2015July 6, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

In my post four years ago, “9/11, Ten Years Later” I talked a little bit about the concept of ‘Judeo-Christian’.  I’d like to expand on it.  As my source says, the meme ‘Judeo-Christian’ originated in the United States after World War […]

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James K. A. Smith and the Pentecostal World View

  • Religion
November 30, 2015July 5, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Is there such a thing as a ‘Pentecostal philosophy’?  James K. A. Smith says there is.  They don’t necessarily talk about it in ways we are accustomed to, but he says they have one.  And here are its major elements […]

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Does Jesus Oppose the Death Penalty?

  • Culture
October 25, 2015July 5, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

For some reason it is hard for people, including even most evangelicals, to imagine Jesus supporting a death penalty for any sort of crime.  On the other hand, if He claimed to be God the Son, “I and the Father […]

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Heterosexual Cohabitation and The Church – After Obergefell

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  • Religion
September 7, 2015July 23, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

The historic church, evangelical, Catholic, and Orthodox, has taken a dim view of ‘cohabitation,’ which used to be called ‘shacking up’ or ‘living in sin.’ The faithful churches in fact generally try to deny the Sacrament to those in cohabitation. […]

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Some Things People Can’t See or Understand Anymore

  • Culture
July 14, 2015July 3, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

In my last post I wrote about how the secular mind can no longer understand the difference between ‘forgiveness’ and ‘tolerance-acceptance-inclusion’.  Things like this are not a surprise; in 1Corinthians 2:14, Paul informs us that “The natural person does not […]

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Forgiveness and ‘Tolerance’ in Charleston

  • Culture
July 6, 2015July 6, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

There has been some coverage about the ‘forgiveness’ offered to Dylann Roof by some of the Christian parishioners of Emanuel AME church that survived his attack.  Matt Schiavenza in the The Atlantic describes this. [For some other responses as to why […]

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‘Freedom From Speech’ and Freedom From Other Things

  • Culture
May 18, 2015May 8, 2020
Author: Howard Ahmanson

“Freedom of speech” has been a slogan in America and the Western World for some time.  But how to explain the rise of “political correctness,” which has not much affected our civil law, but has affected policies on campus, and, […]

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