Following the example of the United Nations when it comes to Brits held by lunatics, I would like to express grave concern about the following:
1. I am gravely concerned about paying my taxes. I shall continue to discuss this concern with the government and other authorities. Until this concern is resolved, I assume I need not pay my taxes.
2. I am gravely concerned about ...
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My non-Christian friends often wonder if they will lose happiness if they adopt Christian ideas. Let's not kid anyone: there are things Christians don't do. Some of those things are pleasurable and nobody likes to lose pleasures!
So yes, becoming a Christian costs happiness and promises pain. We are not the religion of the Cross for nothing.
In fact, since God made every...
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Hillary Clinton is running for President and using her gender to raise money at every turn.
Recently, Geraldine Ferraro was brought back from the Land of Misfit Political Candidates to raise money for Hillary (!) by reminding us all that she was the first woman to run on a major party slate . . . if the Mondale candidacy sweeping its way through D.C. and Minnesota counts as...
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Wheeee, I'm a cat in a rocket! I'm zooming around at high speeds, a feline making a beeline (if you will). No stopping this cat, no sir. I'm just zooming around and around and... hey, why am I zooming around? I'm just going in circles! I'm -- I'm-- I'm on a rocket ride at an amusement park! I'm bolted to a spinning hub with other merrymakers in their own rocket rides.
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I've got a weakness for spectacularly bad music, and I'm also a fan of Van Morrison. Normally these two passions of mine have nothing to do with each other.
But once upon a time, long about 1967, young genius Van Morrison was contractually obligated to make another album for a producer he was quite finished with. There was no way out of the contract without generating a c...
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If sales of Hugh Hewitt's newest book are any indication, Mitt Romney is going to be a potent force in the next presidential race.
Hugh Hewitt does not need any defenders and Erick Erickson has written a capable and informative review of Hugh's new book. (Note: I am featured in an interview in this book.) It is also sad to link to Erick Erickson and the fine folk at Redstat...
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I hate writing in cursive. When I have to write with a pen onto paper I print. The last time I wrote anything in cursive other than my signature was when I was taking the GRE to get into graduate school. The ETS testing folks mandate that you rewrite the GRE statement of honesty in cursive (it says on the form YOU MUST NOT PRINT). I guess this helps prevent anyone else from...
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Now some of you are already thinking, "Like an article on what to do if your son is going to play quarterback for the Packers or star in their first major motion picture, this is a very annoying topic." Many parents would just like to see their kids read anything, since a glance at the back of cereal box would double their voluntary literary content for the week.
But there a...
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My wife just read a biography of George Washington Carver (subtitled The Man Who Overcame, by Lawrence Elliot (Prentice-Hall, 1966). Like most biographies of Carver, this one is out to edify and inspire the reader at all costs, and the lessons do come flying out of it pretty fast. I know it's sophisticated in these jaded days to be more deflationary about Carver's reputation...
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Every few months I get e-mails from people asking what books I would recommend on the Trinity. These are not requests for the latest scholarly work. They're not focused inquiries with specific topics in mind. Nor are they requests for the greatest books of all time on the doctrine of the Trinity, the kind of thing I would use in a seminar class on the doctrine. These are jus...
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Education is becoming what God meant humanity to be.
Education cannot save anyone. It cannot begin itself given the broken and sinful human condition. Humanity requires redemption first, but education is of great value for the redeemed.
Education is part of any faith at work!
Is it Biblical?
It has as its Biblical mandate John 1: 1-14.
True education begins i...
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Recently there has been a new marketing fad (sigh) amongst home schoolers tied to a "distinction" between Hebrew thought and Greek and Roman thought.
These groups attack a straw man by arguing against "Greek education" and advocating "Hebrew education." I am sure from looking at their sites that these are good people with good intentions.
I agree with much of what they s...
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