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January 16, 2014

Phil Robertson’s Victory Over the Secular Theocracy

Editorial Note: This is the second installment in a two-part series on Duck Dynasty and what...

January 14, 2014

Duck Dynasty and the Secular Theocracy

I am always delighted to receive a guest post from David J. Theroux, who is...

June 2013

June 26, 2013

Loud on Poverty, Quiet on Abortion: The Danger of Selective Theonomy

My friend Rob Schwarzwalder from the Family Research Council offers the following guest post this...

January 2013

January 07, 2013

Social Justice, Guns, and God

The variety of intelligent things being said, representing a variety of positions on the issues,...

December 2012

December 14, 2012

Breakfast Links for 12/14/12 – Hobbit on Steroids; Verbal Autopsies; NASA vs. the Mayans

BREAKFAST LINKS 12/14/12: Jeffery Overstreet, Patheos/Good Letters: “But where Tolkien served the head and the...

December 13, 2012

Breakfast Links for 12/13/12 – Leave Your Snakes Home; Jedi Knights and Faith; Positive Negative Thinking

BREAKFAST LINKS 12/13/12: Arlene Sanchez-Walsh, Patheos/Re-Generacion: “When I started teaching a class on global Pentecostalism...

December 11, 2012

Breakfast Links for 12/11/12 – Sex and Control; What Ticks Jesus Off; Googling God

BREAKFAST LINKS 12/11/12: Calah Alexander, Patheos/Barefoot and Pregnant: “For these people, how painful must it...

October 2012

October 16, 2012

Why We Need More Religion in Politics, Not Less

Last week I received another expression of a very common sentiment in the comments box...

August 2012

August 23, 2012

Compassion Has Always Been Conservative

Every now and then, the reality-based community gets a reality check. One particularly bruising encounter...

June 2012

June 20, 2012

Hating on Bristol Palin, Back in Style

Hank Stuever writes in The Washington Post a review of Bristol Palin's reality show, which...

June 19, 2012

Diagnosing Christian Right Derangement Syndrome

My recent posts challenging the standard "culture war" narrative (here) and addressing the caricaturing of...

March 2012

March 30, 2012

Want to End Rabid Partisanship? Reform American Academia

After so much talk of uniting Americans and promoting civility and overcoming our political polarization,...

January 2012

January 10, 2012

Rick Santorum Interview: The New Awakening of Conservative Christians

As I mentioned in my last post, I interviewed Rick Santorum some time ago, but...

January 09, 2012

Comparing Christmas Speeches: Queen Elizabeth, President Obama, and Ronald Reagan

Sometimes I wish we belonged to the British Commonwealth. Watching this video was one of...

December 2011

December 22, 2011

Bush Hatred Prevails Over Obama Love

A presidency that began with such hope and optimism, and such astronomical approval and support,...

October 2011

October 20, 2011

Reconsidering Bush’s “Compassionate” Conservatism

After I had read his book, The Man in the Middle, I had the pleasure...

October 19, 2011

Reassessing George W Bush – Interview with Tim Goeglein, Part 1

On the sixteenth of September, I interviewed Timothy Goeglein, author of The Man in the...

October 18, 2011

The Political-Environmental Complex

Not quite as catchy as the military-industrial complex, but no less real: Some of the...

September 2011

September 12, 2011

Remembering September 12th: Can Morning in America Dawn Anew?

Ronald Reagan's famous "Morning in America" campaign commercial heralded the end of a long dark...

August 2011

August 18, 2011

Morning Report: The "Socialist" Early Church, Not Supporting Rick Perry, Washington Wealth, and "Submission"

In the News 1. Important pieces on "twin killings" or (more euphemistically) "reductions" -- in...

August 12, 2011

Political Quotes of the Day: British Criminality, China's Winter of Discontent, the Koch Brothers, the Debate, and the Vanity (?) of Obama

Key quotations from both sides of the aisle: Theodore Dalrymple (no relation): The ferocious criminality...

August 10, 2011

Political Quotes of the Day: Sacred Spending Cows, Rick Perry's God, and Blame the Tea Party

Quotations are offered not because I agree or disagree with them, but as points of...

August 08, 2011

Political Quotes of the Day: Debt-Ceiling and Standard and Poor's Special Edition

I'm going to begin a series that I'll try to post every day. It will...

August 03, 2011

When Christ is Lord, Nothing is Secular

There's a saying attributed to John Stott: "When Christ is Lord, nothing is secular." Or...

August 02, 2011

Whom Would Jesus Indebt?

One of the gravest dangers of the Budget Control Act passed yesterday is that it...

July 2011

July 30, 2011

Renewing Our Church, Renewing Our Nation

A pall hangs over America and her churches. There is a sense not merely that...

July 26, 2011

Morning Links: Obama's Crumbling Base, Rod Dreher, Andrew Ferguson, Scot McKnight, and Higher Education

In the News 1. "New Polls Confirm Obama's Democratic Base Crumbles." Michael Warren comments. 2....

July 25, 2011

Was Anders Breivik Really a Christian?

What do we do with the fact that Anders Behring Breivik -- the perpetrator of...

July 15, 2011

Wisdom from Jonah Goldberg? First Principles of Politics

I sometimes find Jonah Goldberg over-the-top, but I thought he made an excellent point in...

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