Who was that masked man? — The Lone Ranger radio series (1933) They call me Hawkeye. That’s from The Last of the Mohicans, the only book my father ever read. —Dr. Benjamin Pierce, “A Full Rich Day,” M*A*S*H (1974) ...
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How Liberty And Work Transformed Western Civilization
Man is made to be in the visible universe an image and likeness of God Himself, and he is placed in it in order to subdue the earth. From the beginning therefore he is called to work. — Pope John ...
Read More »Do Virus Patients Have The ‘Right’ To Infect?
Viruses are extremely unpredictable, as the worldwide Ebola outbreak last year proved. That outbreak highlighted a significant problem, and one whose reconciliation is firmly grounded in biblical truth. Here’s what I mean: When society makes the freedom of the individual ...
Read More »The True Foundation of Liberty
“Only a Sith deals in absolutes” —Obi-Wan Kenobi Freedom and Nature Discussions about liberty have to begin with definitions and of course, include reference points. After all, no one is free to do anything and everything that they want to ...
Read More »The Real Root of Slavery: A Short Advent Meditation
Want. Take. Have. —Faith, “Bad Girls,” Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1999) Come, thou long expected Jesus / Born to set Thy people free. — Charles Wesley, “Hymns for the Nativity of Our Lord (1744) But what’s the real problem no ...
Read More »The Myth Of Neutrality
The plea for Christians to surrender to neutrality in their thinking is not an uncommon one. —Greg Bahnsen, Always Ready (1996) Man neither is nor can be “objective” and “impartial.” All his thinking is from some fundamental starting point or ...
Read More »The Religion-Makers
And Cause never was the reason for the evening Or the Tropic of Sir Galahad. —Dewey Bunnell, “Tin Man” (1974) In every campaign, the religion of humanity has presented its current cause as the ultimate standard, the acid test ...
Read More »Walls That Divide
There are two “cities” in which men on earth may live. They must in fact live in one or the other. —Roderick Campbell, Israel and the New Covenant (1954) By night and alone Nehemiah surveyed the broken walls of Jerusalem. ...
Read More »What The Bible Really Says About Immigration
Before I built a wall I’d ask to know/What I was walling in or walling out . . . —Robert Frost, “Mending Wall” (1914) One mark of a free society is that strangers can flourish economically. —Gary North, Inheritance and ...
Read More »Fervent Prayer and Hard Work
Ora et labora. —a Benedictine proverb No, my friend, there is no contradiction between the sovereign decrees of God and fervent, believing prayer. —John Reisinger, The Sovereignty of God and Prayer (2002) The Moment Of Crisis It was a calculated ...
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