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The only artist who is perfect in all forms of creativity . . . is of course God—the God who is Personal. —Edith Schaeffer, Hidden Art (1971)   Come with me to the Alps and look at the snow-covered mountains. ...

  Have you ever “lost” an argument? If you’re like most people, you always replay the argument in your mind. Of course, in the replay you always win the argument! You always smash ’em down and put them in their ...

Exodus 20:12 says, “Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.” Where the first four commandments deal, primarily, with our relationship to God, the final ...

  You can never have a revolution to establish a democracy.  You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution. —G. K. Chesterton, “The Wind and the Trees” (1909)   To an ancient Greek, “democracy” was inseparable from ...

If we’re honest, breaking the Fourth Commandment is one we might be not feel as bad about as breaking the other nine. Certainly, if you kill, commit adultery, or make a carved image, you should and usually do feel guilty. ...

It always amazes me how young our children are when we see rebellion in them. I recall that our toddler daughter didn’t want to submit to my authority – or her mom’s authority. If she didn’t want to eat her ...

Imagine someone coming up to you and saying, “I want to write a memoir about your life. In my biography of you, you are an Olympic athlete, you’re terrible at personal relationships, and you live with 25 birds and 10 ...

Stop reading this for a moment, and try to say the Ten Commandments from memory. Do you know them? Many people may have heard about them on the news, but they have never read them. Exodus 20:7 lists the first ...

If there is a bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment, it is that government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea offensive or disagreeable.        — Justice William Brennan, Texas v. Johnson ...

When the managing director of an Australian power company last fall suggested that those who leave the electric grid and rely on solar power exclusively are “greedy and selfish,” a fair amount of off-the-grid enthusiasts balked. Paul Adams, managing director ...