Homoemergency
Call me homoemergicus maximus. I’m white, 32, and male. And chances are, so are you. We are slightly overweight, own way too many CDs, spend entirely too much time on blogs, and we like to think that we are eccentric.
So, why are we all so similar? Why homoemergicus? Two answers might buy most of the […]
Responsibility Redefined
Today we have Arnold Kling with the best sentence I have read in a while…
To argue that you need to “behave more responsibly” is to argue that there is something wrong with prices.
Distrust of the price mechanism arises from realism about man’s fallen nature, but that really is not any of the government’s business. We […]
Obama No More
I had flirted with the idea of voting for Obama off and on for the past several months. After the nomination of Joe Bidden for VP, however, I am officially off the bandwagon and stuck with voting for a 3rd party candidate for the 4th time in a presidential election. As a mater of fact, […]
On Individualism and Christianity
I have heard some criticisms of the individualistic view of Christianity. While Christ, in establishing the Church, creates a new nation, a holy priesthood, and, in my mind, the only legitimate collective, there is a necessary element of individualism to our faith, unique among the world’s religions.
About 100 years ago a British newspaper posed the […]
Conflating Powers and Markets
I love Jesus Manifesto. Among the Emergent types, Mark Van Steenwyk and his crew are the absolute top-shelf. They are anabaptists and flirt with anarchism. We like this. A lot. In a recent post Mark warns Emergents against becoming a mere fad, comercialized, and thus contributing to empire. A fair warning, especially considering the emergent […]
Jim Wallis’ Sojourners is no longer accepting direct criticism on their blog, God’s Politics. Well, at least they have rejected several of my recent posts under the handle, “jurisnaturalist”. Maybe the idea of a natural law is obscene to them. I don’t know. But lest another of my responsive platitudes evaporate into rejected-comment-land I have […]
How Pagans Pray for Rain
Sam links us to the following video. Before you watch it, remember that God warned against prayers like the pagans. He said not to chant, or fill prayers with vain repetitions. When people are focussed on winning control of the state’s billy-club rather than abolishing it they start doing silly things.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztO8wZz029Y
Presidential Ads
Watching the Olympics and reading up on the Russia-Georgia conflict while also reading Keller’s Reason For God has brought this important announcement to my attention.
Russia Invades!!!
It has been a scant 5 days since we brought you this post suggesting that war was likely in the Balkans.
Lo and behold, Georgia’s President says, “My country is in self-defense against Russian aggression. Russian troops invaded Georgia.” CNN
Whether this attack will lead to global macro effects will be interesting to watch. If international forces […]
Google Yourself, Me on CNN
CNN ran this story on their website some time ago. I was interviewed by one of their reporters while hiking at Great Falls park with my girls. There was a camera running during the interview, but I can’t find a video link, so maybe the report was cut from broadcast and cast into the internet. […]
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