George Will recently penned a column about his 40-year-old son, Jonathan, who has Down syndrome. In it, he related how upon his arrival, the doctor told Jonathan’s parents their first question was whether they intended to take him home from the hospital. Will continues: Nonplussed, they said they thought that is what parents do with [...]
It’s been almost 2 years since the publication of James Davison Hunter’s To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World, and if the initial tide of commentary/debate/criticism has ebbed, still, it seems this book will continue to exert a commanding influence over the ways in which Christians consider [...]
“We must shift America from a needs- to a desires-culture. People must be trained to desire, to want new things, even before the old have been entirely consumed… Man’s desires must overshadow his needs.”~Paul Mazer, Wall Street banker working for Lehman Brothers in the 1930s [...]
I’m constantly fascinated with the “fine line.” On a grand scale, cosmologists hypothesize that had certain physical constants varied – by seemingly infinitesimal amounts – no mind would be here to ask, “Why is there not nothing?” On the moral front, Alexander Solzhenitsyn spoke compellingly of the fine line separating good and evil that “passes [...]
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