Title: Envy Author: Helmut Schoeck Genre: Law Release Date: January 1, 1987 Pages: 452 Envy was first published in German in 1966, then in an English translation in 1970. This classic study is one of the few books to explore extensively the many facets of envy—"a drive which lies at the core of man's life …
Book of the Month/August 2014
For this month’s installment, I am going to do something a little bit different. I am going to throw some superlatives into the second paragraph, explain some obstacles in the next, and then add my own observations following all that. This book, Is Administrative Law Unlawful?, is one of the most important books of this …
Mission Drift
Title: Mission Drift Author: Peter Greer, Chris Horst, Genre: Religion Publisher: Bethany House Publishers Release Date: February 18, 2014 Pages: 224 Is your organization in danger of Mission Drift? Without careful attention, faith-based organizations drift from their founding mission. It's that simple. It will happen. Slowly, silently, and with little fanfare, organizations routinely drift from …
Not My Circus, Not My Monkeys
The Dems are talking up the prospect of impeachment for the president right now because they know what a loser issue that would be for the Republicans, and the Democrats desperately need for the Republicans to obtain for themselves a loser issue that can be wrapped around their necks. They are able to talk it …
America’s Udder
The reason we have an immigration problem is not because we are welcoming people to America, but rather what kind of America we are welcoming them to. This in turn has an effect on what kind of people seek to be welcomed here, which then provokes the wrong kind of reaction on our part, and …
A Pretty Firm Grip on the Ears
In a perfect world, I wouldn’t have to preface my remarks with any of these qualifications, but then again, in a perfect world, we wouldn’t have our perennial crisis in the Middle East. And so it would be that I would not have to say anything at all . . . in a perfect world. …
The Creed of Presbyterians
Title: The Creed of Presbyterians Author: Egbert Watson Smith Publisher: Fredonia Books Release Date: 1901 Pages: 228 I enjoyed this very much. It is a bit too rah-rah in places, and I read an early version of it (1901), written before the author was bedazzled by Barth. At the same time, it was heartening to …
Envy Impaled
Doug Jones was good enough to reply to my recent post on envy, and his reply showed up the necessity of making a couple of additional points. The basic point remains unchanged, although if I want the board to stay up I will have to put a couple more nails in it. First, the mere …
The Crawling Snake of Envy
I said recently that envy is the great invisible driver in our modern political conflicts. On what basis can I say this, and is this not a case of trying to read hearts? First, we see the simple statements of Scripture as treating envy as public, visible, identifiable. But first, hold your horses. A bit …
The Scruffiest You Ever Saw
Let’s begin by distinguishing two different kinds of resistance. In the first, let us begin by supposing a godless despotism that has been a godless despotism from its founding. There is no heritage of restrained government. If one of the subjects of this realm were converted to God, started preaching the gospel, and was told …