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Some Links On Christian Education
May 30, 2020
A good article on homeschooling. I recommend it!
https://quillette.com/2020/05/23/the-fight-over-alternative-education/
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Some links on immigration.md
Some Links On Immigration
October 21, 2019
This is one of the few helpful reads I have found on the internet regarding immigration. The other was Kevin DeYoung on TGC.
https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/kevin-deyoung/immigration-policy-must-be-based-on-more-than-an-appeal-to-compassion/
There is a lot to discuss here, and as DeYoung points out, we cannot use simple platitudes for making big decisions. Wisdom demands more from us.
https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2019/09/56067/
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Some Links On Eco-Extremism
October 19, 2019
Seven articles from five different sites each point towards a particular recurrent theme in today’s environmental movement. The first, from Quillette, highlights the history of today’s climate extremism. Another brings in asceticism. What is so fascinating about this is how environmentalism is easily its own religion now which means that religious and moral arguments now come into play in the discussions. While battles still loom over data and research regarding our climate, conservative political voices are highlighting the spiritual aspects of the movement.
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Some Links On Religious Liberty
October 18, 2019
With so many cases having arisen out of the disastrous and faulty ruling of 2015, it is good to see religious liberty being defended on various fronts. While we as Christians don’t put our hope in political power or political victories, for our sole hope is in Jesus Christ, the matters and affairs of the state are important. The Reformers, such as Calvin and Luther, certainly understood this. The church is facing difficult things ahead in the Western world; the trials currently underway are only the beginning.
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Some links on free speech.md
Digital Tithing Has Become A Multi-billion Dollar Industry
October 14, 2019
Quillette has been an interesting source of ideas. Though this article was published a couple of months ago, it makes some valuable points about what is the purpose of free speech.
https://quillette.com/2019/08/18/free-speech-matters-even-when-its-not-protected-by-the-first-amendment/
UPDATE: 20200916
Well said.
https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/condemning-cuties-noncontroversial/
For a response (with which I disagree):
https://quillette.com/2020/09/17/dont-listen-to-the-outrage-cuties-is-a-great-film/
Rom 3:8 “And why not do evil that good may come?—as some people slanderously charge us with saying. Their condemnation is just.”
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Some links on faith and politics.md
Some Links On Theology And Politics
August 8, 2019
I was converted in part out of a political ideology and as part of that move, I took a two-year political hiatus in which I neither read nor watched the news. (This all followed a destructive act of anger on my part and God’s gracious humbling.) Following my return from political abstention, I slowly began to digest the news, wary of becoming enraged, concerned that I did not know what my fellow man was experiencing around me.
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Some links on abortion.md
Some Links On Abortion
July 9, 2019
Desiring God has said it well. In the age of social media, our ability to argue, debate, critically think, analyze, synthesize, and the like have been degraded, corroded, and starved. Unlike the humanistic renaissance, if Wikipedia doesn’t include something (and hasn’t edited it out of existence), people are bound not to know the history of their ideas, culture, faith, or the like. Many modern peoples are happy eclectics, believing in disparate doctrines and ignoring the gulfs between them.
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Jordan Peterson: High Priest For A Secular Age
April 11, 2019
Jordan Peterson took many by surprise after he showed an interviewer’s logical problems. What has interested many on the political right is his biblical quotations and references, yet what many fail to realize is that his thoughts are little more than a repeat of the German higher critics from the 18th through 20th century. In particular his thoughts reflect those of Strauss, the father of radical theology whose thoughts come out of then-contemporary Hegalian thinking.
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Some Links On Postmodernism
January 14, 2019
This blog post by Dr. Michael J. Kruger hits on issues of theology, politics, culture, and even the arts (or at least a performer of art). A good and humorous read explaining the importance of the need for a standard of truth over and against subjective claims!
As Dr. Kruger mentions, you can find the consistent teaching of the Church laid out in one convenient work of history here. This book sits on my shelf waiting for a good read.