If you are coming to the Grace Agenda this year, we are looking forward to seeing you later this week. If you can’t make it, we would appreciate your prayers. About 600 are signed up, and we are pretty jazzed about it. And in case you missed this, the weekend is starting off Thursday night …
The Last Kingdom
Title: The Last Kingdom Author: Bernard Cornwell Genre: Fiction Publisher: Harper Perennial Release Date: January 3, 2006 Pages: 368 In the middle years of the ninth-century, the fierce Danes stormed onto British soil, hungry for spoils and conquest. Kingdom after kingdom fell to the ruthless invaders until but one realm remained. And suddenly the fate …
Ukraine #5
So as I wrap up my discussion of issues surrounding Ukraine, I want to do three things, which I will take in the standard order of 1,2,and 3. First I want to provide a handful of links (from various sane perspectives) to help illustrate how much this is like trying to unscramble a pan full …
Apparently Not
Shambolic and Petty Despotism
A month or so ago, I wrote about Roy Moore and Russell Moore, and the article got a lot of traction. In addition to the traffic of people reading it, I also got a few people contacting me personally with various objections. What I wanted to do here is give a quick checklist kind of …
Ukraine #4
Please allow me just one more set of background observations before I say what I think ought to be done in Ukraine. When we teach math to kids, we are not training future mathematicians, although some will wind up there. We are training future grocers, carpenters, housewives, etc. We want what they learn about math …
Is Administrative Law Unlawful?
Title: Is Administrative Law Unlawful? Author: Philip Hamburger Genre: Law Publisher: University of Chicago Press Release Date: May 27, 2014 Pages: 645 Is administrative law unlawful? This provocative question has become all the more significant with the expansion of the modern administrative state. While the federal government traditionally could constrain liberty only through acts of …
Don’t Take It Too Far
“There are things that are permitted in an actual war (such as killing), which should not be tolerated in a metaphorical war, as when a school superintendent declares war on poor spelling” (Rules, p. 83).
Fiction and the Third Commandment
One of the magazines I subscribe to is Reformed Perspective, and I would encourage you to do the same. If you like, you can get over there and subscribe right now. I bring this up because the cover story of their most recent issue was on “Christian Fantasy after Lewis and Tolkien,” a theme worthy …
Here’s to Wishful Thinking
