Pray for Our Brother!

Please, take a moment to pray for our brother in Christ, Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani, who just yesterday was sentenced to execution in Iran for converting to Christianity. Fox News reports: Supporters fear Youcef Nadarkhani, a 34-year-old father of two who was arrested over two years ago on charges of apostasy, may now be executed at [...]

Statistics Like A Bikini

I don’t have any strong affinities for Rick Santorum.  For me, the jury’s still out on the best Republican candidate.  But, regardless of the candidate, what I can’t stand are ridiculous accusations of racism and/or discrimination whenever someone (usually a conservative) so much as mentions race.   And that’s just what happened recently in response [...]

Fantastic Conceit

Elizabeth Scalia at First Things: The people who talk a good game about freedom and service and fairness – usually reserving their most ardent rhetoric for the $30,000 per-table fundraisers – never seem willing to promote the monastic ideal though, and they dont refer to the soup kitchens and outreaches, the church-administered hospitals or training [...]

Dependency and Democracy

First Things: The original justification for the modern welfare state was that it would be a “safety net”—an exception to the rules of normal economic ebb and flow, designed to lift up those who, through some oversight, had “slipped through the cracks.” But we now find ourselves in a situation where the exception is becoming [...]

Sound Advice for the Occupy Wall Street Crowd

Dave Ramsey offers some refreshingly insightful comments: “I’m mad as hell, and I’m not going to take it anymore!” Yeah, that’s great. But what do you want? What are your goals? What are your demands? What result are you looking for?  The beauty of being vague is that anyone who has any emotion can get [...]

Are Evangelicals Dangerous?

Al Mohler: Are evangelicals dangerous? Well, certainly not in the sense that more secular voices warn. The vast majority of evangelicals are not attempting to create a theocracy, or to oppose democracy. To the contrary, evangelicals are dangerous to the secularist vision of this nation and its future precisely because we are committed to participatory [...]

Are Islam and Liberty Necessarily At Odds?

An interesting (albeit, politically incorrect) article from World Magazine: The United States replied to 9/11 with not only military might but the hope that Muslims in Afghanistan, Iraq, and other countries would gain freedom…But with democratic experiments stalling, more Americans are asking basic questions: Do many devout Muslims, for theological reasons, see liberty as an [...]

The Insanity of Fame

It used to be that fame was associated with doing something really great.  By great, I mean admirable – something perceived as praise-worthy.  Now, that could have been an achievement as important as discovering the cure for a deadly illness, or as fleeting as simply performing well in a sports competition.  Regardless, the basic rule was the [...]