July 2011
24 posts
Who is John Stott? by David Brooks →
Conservative Education →
So I’m spending the week speaking at and otherwise participating in the national honors program of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute—a conservative educational foundation. The students are…
“The modern habit of saying, ‘Every man has a different philosophy; this is my...”
– G.K. Chesterton (via badwolfcomplex)
A Left Turn Worth Considering →
If only such voices as that of Lord Maurice Glasman received a hearing in today’s Democratic Party. According to this remarkable article in the Guardian, Glasman has the ear of Labour’s leader Ed…
World's Most Dangerous Countries for Women →
Targeted violence against females, dismal healthcare and desperate poverty make Afghanistan the world’s most dangerous country in which to be born a woman, with Congo a close second due to horrific…
Carl Henry Was Right | Christianity Today | A... →
Christianity Today’s first editor grasped what I as a young theologian failed to understand about church involvement in social justice.
Richard J. Mouw | posted 1/27/2010 10:20AM
AEI Citizenship – Wisdom from Silent Cal for the... →
What Silent Cal said about the Fourth of July
Death and Debt →
David Brooks has a very thoughtful column on the fact that a lot of soaring health care costs have to do using all means available to keep very sick people alive just a little bit longer.
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Getting Lost in Percy’s Cosmos » Postmodern... →
“My theory (like Flannery’s) is that the times are such that the language of religion is so exhausted, de trop, that the tactic of the apologist must be indirect, perhaps even devious. More devious…
Locke, Christianity, and America » Postmodern... →
Maybe the final stage of our rebuilding–or, really, with our young and talented philosophical cultural critics–being built better than ever–is a long, windbag, off-the wall, semi-philosophical post…
Technology Provides an Alternative to Love. -... →
Our infatuation with technology encourages shallow self-reflection, and liking, rather than the harder work of loving.
“It is more important that innocence be protected than it is that guilt be...”
– John Adams (via nickelcobalt)
“Some begin to suspect that [the love of one’s country] is never anything...”
– C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
Josh Ritter’s Novel of Appalachia →
In the singer-songwriter Josh Ritter’s first novel, a West Virginia farm boy heeds voices he began hearing in the trenches of World War I.
Bell, Hell and What We Did Well | Challies Dot Com →
Shared by David Little
Sounds about right…
We Got Gamed
Mesquite BBQ Visine Selling Poorly Outside Texas →
