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Am I an Occasionalist? Christian Philosophy Critiques Intelligent Design

  • Religion
March 12, 2014July 5, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

First Things is a magazine I like and find interesting.  Just recently they have come out with a criticism of Intelligent Design by philosopher-scientist Stephen Meredith of the University of Chicago.  He charges that Intelligent Design assumes the philosophy of […]

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Why Does Talk About “Evangelism” Make Me Nervous?

  • Religion
February 20, 2014July 5, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

At an event I was at recently I heard about a new effort to get Christian colleges united around the concept of ‘evangelism’.  Well, fine.  Jesus desires that people in all cultures be brought to Him and taught to do […]

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The Last Freedom (and its Relationship to the First)

  • Culture
February 18, 2014July 3, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World seems, for the most part, to be closer to the future we are facing in the West than George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four.  I do think that parts of Orwell’s vision are still important, however; in […]

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After Jesus, A Better World

  • Religion
December 20, 2013June 7, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Mark Judge, a Roman Catholic writer, has, just in time for Christmas, given us his version of why the coming of Jesus into the world was an improvement.  Judge quotes the former pope Benedict XVI as saying that the ancient […]

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Thoughts on St. Patrick’s Day

  • Culture
March 14, 2013December 9, 2021
Author: Howard Ahmanson

In a few days comes one of the strangest holidays in our American calendar, in which we honor a saint who actually deserves honoring or remembering, and at the same time the first major non-Protestant ethnic group to come to […]

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Evangelicals: From ‘Mind their own Business’ to Activism

  • Culture
January 28, 2013July 5, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

I don’t think opposition to abortion rights is ‘hating women’, but it is very true that the Evangelical Right, unlike the Catholics, came to its anti-abortion position rather late.  It was Francis Schaeffer, his son Frank, and the man who […]

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On the Inhabitants of LA and CA

  • California
December 24, 2012July 5, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

From Derek Sivers, one of the best descriptions of Los Angeles life I’ve ever read, and a lot of it applies to Orange County, even though the OC is not so much a center of the entertainment industry.  [Before the […]

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There’s More to the World than America

  • Politics
December 23, 2012December 9, 2021
Author: Howard Ahmanson

I am not all that upset about the November election, for two reasons: 1. The church is growing so fast in Africa and China that it more than makes up for our losses in America and the West.  I feel […]

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“HELL YEAH!!”

  • Miscellaneous
December 20, 2012July 3, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Derek Sivers, who I have run across recently, says we should never say Yes unless it”s on the level of “HELL YEAH!!” and otherwise we should say No. As a philanthropist I can see this clearly. We must say No […]

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Why I am not a Communitarian

  • Politics
November 26, 2012January 4, 2021
Author: Howard Ahmanson

A philosophy called ‘communitarianism’ has often been proposed recently as an alternative to the growing libertarianism of our time.  This philosophy, they say, can combine social conservatism and economic moderation, as well as potentially reviving an emphasis on the local […]

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