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2020-07-17T18:54:55-04:00

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Christ Above All or The Integration of Faith, Values, and Learning: Service to God is not just a Matter of the Mind (Part 3)

Last updated on: July 17, 2020 at 6:54 pm By John Mark N. Reynolds

It should be obvious to all Christians that Pascal was right. We do have to take the heart into account. I would suggest that just as elegance is valued in a proof of logic, so we can and should value beauty and elegance in a general view of reality. Science itself is not the problem, of course. With all the problems, it has been more a blessing than a curse to mankind. The misuse of science or of the speculations... Read more

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2020-07-17T18:51:02-04:00

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Christ Above All or The Integration of Faith, Values, and Learning: Moderation in Methods (Part 2)

Last updated on: July 17, 2020 at 6:51 pm By John Mark N. Reynolds

The twentieth century loved to speak of “revolutions” . . . even in the area of thought. The outcome was not promising. In the history of ideas, I think it better to think of development as “biological” instead of as revolutionary. Ideas build on each other. In fact, if anything evolves, human thought evolves. The story of intellectual development is less the story of Kuhn-like paradigm shifts, then it is the tale of slow and gradual growth in understanding with... Read more

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2020-07-19T11:26:01-04:00

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Christ Above All or The Integration of Faith, Values, and Learning: the Crisis of this Last Age of Man (Part I)

Last updated on: July 19, 2020 at 11:26 am By John Mark N. Reynolds

As C.S. Lewis wrote in his prophetic novel That Hideous Strength we are witnessing the end of man as he has been. On the one hand, we have the antichrist spirit that despises Christianity. Voltaire’s disciples have declined in intellectual rigor from Bertrand Russell to Sam Harris, but have retained the old Enlightenment skeptic’s willingness to substitute forcefulness of expression for argument. More and more of their leaders are willing to advocate profaning religious symbols. The hostility to Evangelical forms... Read more

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2020-07-18T09:50:00-04:00

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Moving Beyond Platitudes on Love

Last updated on: July 18, 2020 at 9:50 am By John Mark N. Reynolds

We all ought to be for love. Christianity announces the good news that at the end of history, love wins. Christianity celebrates the common humanity of men and women, but also rejoices and allows for difference. Christianity allows for romance, but also love that sometimes is dutiful. Romance withers in the face of modernity, but justice dies if romance rules. This side of Paradise men and women must live justly, but also allow for the romance that creates healthy human... Read more

Culture

2020-07-14T00:57:29-04:00

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Justice for 9/11?

Last updated on: July 14, 2020 at 12:57 am By John Mark N. Reynolds

The nation has not healed from the attacks on 9/11, because an act of war is not a wound or a disease. Terrorists attacked our nation and killed Americans on September eleventh motivated by a radical form of Islam. Until we win the ideological war against terrorism and make radical forms of Islam as unattractive as we have made Nazi ideology, we will not have finished the job that 9/11 started. Our nation needs justice tempered with mercy, not healing,... Read more

Spiritual Reflections

2020-07-13T01:29:42-04:00

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Plato goes on being important. . .and is oft misunderstood.

Last updated on: July 13, 2020 at 1:29 am By John Mark N. Reynolds

Rejoice. Smart people have helped us, there are very few new questions. Long ago very clever people asked the same questions that trouble us today. A civilization was roiled by war and a pandemic and thoughtful folk found a way forward. They created beauty, longed for the good, and wanted truth more than comfortable lies. This is very good news if you are a Christian. At the start of our language, at the beginning of our words, there were people... Read more

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2020-07-14T19:18:44-04:00

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O Holy Wisdom

Last updated on: July 14, 2020 at 7:18 pm By John Mark N. Reynolds

If a nation will not pay reparations, they might at least avoid committing the same crime again. For one thousand years, almost without interruption, a culture flourished, grew, sustained classical education, and then was brutally snuffed out by conquerers. The most holy places of this people group were appropriated by the winners and children were enslaved to serve the masters. For centuries the “losers” were kept as second-class subjects, or worse. They could act as servants when they were not... Read more

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2020-07-11T19:35:51-04:00

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Keeping our Brothers and Sisters

Last updated on: July 11, 2020 at 7:35 pm By John Mark N. Reynolds

Moral men have a duty to help their neighbors, but nobody has an obligation to force other people to help. Jesus told a story of a Good Samaritan who crossed difficult social and cultural barriers to provide relief to an injured man. This is a good model for our own behavior. We should help the hurting neighbor even if he is a pariah in our community. The mortgage broker who has lost his job is also my neighbor and when... Read more

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2020-07-10T11:04:47-04:00

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God Bless the Romans

Last updated on: July 10, 2020 at 11:04 am By John Mark N. Reynolds

The nuns get to live and do charity as they believe right. They are not, perhaps, up to date, but their charitable work is not dated. Having lived through the unfortunate sartorial period known as the 1980’s, I can report that more stylish an outfit then, the more laughter it generates from my children now. Generally, the up to date is quickly dated. Dated clothing is merely embarrassing, but dated ethics can be harmful. No ethical position is less likely... Read more

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2020-07-09T20:50:17-04:00

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To Be an Exceptional People

Last updated on: July 9, 2020 at 8:50 pm By John Mark N. Reynolds

I have met the Chosen People and some of them are Americans, but not all of them. To be Chosen is special, but a mixed blessing as the history of the Jewish people demonstrates. Just as the blessings of my neighbor do not make me poor, so the Chosen status of the Jews does not make me less. As an individual standing before God, I am equal to any man or woman, but that does not mean I share all... Read more

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