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the Providence HS prayer for its football players 23 Aug 2013 | 09:21 pm
For this moment, parents laid hands on their son, while we all stood in a circle. "Lord, I lift up my sons to you and ask that you would put a hedge of protection around them. Protect their spirit, b...
on President Obama's college speech yesterday... 23 Aug 2013 | 09:06 pm
On President Obama's college speech yesterday... A great title from a John Ransom article: "Making it Cheaper No Matter What it Costs". This explains the President's approach to health care and now, ...
review of Leithart's "Between Babel and Beast" 22 Aug 2013 | 03:30 pm
Peter Leithart has written a thorough and nuanced book on empire and government from a Biblical perspective. I got a number of nuggets from the book-- from cool observations about a variety of Biblica...
the minimum wage is minimally helpful… 19 Aug 2013 | 07:12 pm
In the Indy Star on Friday... Later this month, we will observe the 50th anniversary of the “March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom”. Dr. Terri Jett recently penned an op-ed for The Star about the ...
kids, Christianity and cultural Christianity 14 Aug 2013 | 07:23 pm
I saw a Facebook post making the following assertion: if no one knew about Christianity until they turned 18, no one would embrace it. The assertion seems potentially reasonable on its face. But it as...
our trip to SC (2013) 20 Jul 2013 | 04:31 am
Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Our two-week family vacation this year started in Grundy, VA with a five-day mission trip to help the Mountain Mission School. From there, w...
on the response to Zimmerman/Martin... 14 Jul 2013 | 11:24 pm
A lot of sad garbage on FB today about Zimmerman... If you watched the trial closely enough to have as much expertise as the jury, then you have way too much spare time. Please get a life. If you d....
review of David Randall's Dreamland 6 Jun 2013 | 03:46 am
David Randall has written a fun and informative book on an interesting and mysterious topic: sleep. His pursuit starts with a personal interest in his own sleep problems and extends into the world of ...
arrest rates by race for pot 5 Jun 2013 | 05:54 pm
From Andrew Wolfson in the C-J... Some possible responses: a.) Who cares? They're black. b.) Who cares? I don't smoke weed. c.) I think this is racist, but I imagine that govt (social, military, econ...
Progressives and Scripture 3 Jun 2013 | 06:14 pm
Thinking through the usual "Progressive" (liberal?) emphasis on progress... In that worldview, those who wrote the Bible would have been rubes (relative to us), intellectually and morally. But if one...
