“Censorship, during this ‘reversal,’ was essential, because ubiquitous, dangerous, and regressive notions were too quickly translated into practice. Indeed, censorship, for Marcuse, must be deeply pervasive, although historically temporary. The result, he promised, would be to restore real freedom, and the words ‘freedom’ and ‘liberty’ once again could attain their ‘true meaning'” (The Shadow University, …
Kennel-Fed Rebels
“As the much censored cartoonist Garry Trudeau has observed in ‘Doonesbury,’ a government-supported avant-garde is a contradiction in terms. The spectacle of supposedly bohemian, anti-establishment artists quivering with indignation and ranting with hysterical rhetoric at the prospect of not receiving money from the bourgeois establishment they attack in their art is glaringly hypocritical (also deliciously …
Secular Schools Mean Secular Ethics
“Education is fundamentally religious. Consequently, there is no question about whether a morality will be imposed in that education, but rather which morality will be imposed. Christians and assorted traditionalists who want a secular school system to instill anything other than secular ethics are wanting something that has never happened and can never happen” (The …
Doctrinally Bilingual
I have come to a conclusion. I have been in the midst of doctrinal fraci (what’s the plural of fracus?) because I am bilingual. I speak both TR and FV. When I talk with others who are bilingual, we get along famously, and I feel like peace is going to break out across the Reformed …
But I Refuse to Stray
Minister: Lift up your hearts! Congregation: We lift them up to the Lord! Now here Your Word is like a lamp That guides my feet in truth. It lights the path before me here, It shows the way through darkest night That I may safely come to You. This oath I took, that I will …
Preparing to Visit
This is an exhortation for both this Lord’s Day and the next. As you know, we rejoice that we have a sister church here in Moscow, Trinity Reformed Church, and we are kept mindful of that fact on a regular basis—we worship together a number of times throughout the year, and it is a great …
That Strength is Here
All homes have places where discipline occurs. As I was growing up, it was the basement. When we were “sent to the basement,” this is where my father would admonish us, discipline us, pray with us afterwards, and graciously invite us to rejoin the fellowship of the family. In other homes, the place varies according …
Dour Chic
“Christians have been criticized for their ‘puritanical’ suspicion of pleasure and beauty. And yet the most flesh-denying ascetic, flagellating himself in a desert cave, and the most furious, tight-lipped Puritan, smashing stained glass windows and pillorying the playwrights, would be hedonistic voluptuaries compared to the existentialists.” [Gene Veith, State of the Arts (Wheaton, IL: Crossway …
The Truth With Dyslexia
“But a lousy education need not be a cheap education. Critics of the government schools know it is not possible to criticize them without hearing the reply that the problem is lack of funding. But this is htrut — the truth with dyslexia. The current expenditure per pupil in average daily attendance in public elementary …
Three More Hamhocks
For those not up to speed, a hamhock is a pig foot. And really cute too.