There are many things that are exasperating about the soi disant stewards of the environment, but the central exasperating thing about them lies right at the heart of their claim. This is especially true of Christians who tell us that Jesus requires us to be “stewards of the earth,” and that being green is a …
Organic and Dark Brown
I am reading a book right now that promises to be enormously helpful — When Helping Hurts. Often poverty relief efforts are as well-intentioned as it gets, but the results unfortunately do not match the intentions. This book understandably begins with the biblical mandate to see the connection between the gospel and actually changing the …
Pomo Goopy Thought
Justin Taylor links to an article by Kevin DeYoung on how it is the the new Calvinists are overwhelmingly complementarians. For those unfamiliar with the jargon, complementarian is the name of the position that resists the ordination of women, while egalitarians support that ordination. There are other issues involved, of course, but that is the …
No, No . . . Not a Handout
Can’t stand it. Gotta say something. As John Stott wrote somewhere, fuzzy thinking is one of the sins of the age. I was watching the tube this afternoon, and a commercial came on, urging us all to get behind the Affordable Health Care Rationing System, or whatever it is they are calling it these days. …
The Economics of Sin
So, it is the Fourth of July. Eat your burgers and set off your squibs. Remember that we are not allowed to turn this into a lamentation commemoration until the president has us neck deep in five year plans and new deals, wrapped in golden chains, and they have to be at least as onerous …
Our Bedlamite Riot
A friend sent me this link to a demolition job of Radical Orthodoxy. This is the kind of scholarship that makes you want to say something like “push ’em back, push ’em back, waaaay back!” I am glad we still have scholars around who have the ability (and the olfactory tolerances) to sift through steaming …
Goodreads Dot Com
Over on the left, you should notice a cluster of book covers that links to a site called Goodreads, a social networking site that revolves around books and reading. I am still just learning the ropes, but know enough to recommend it highly. After I joined, I spent some time backloading a list of books …
A Few More Blurbs
A few more YouTube blurbs for the Desiring God conference are now up. You can find them here.
Slow That Arrogant Greedhead Down
John Adams once said that our Constitution presupposes a moral and a religious people. It is wholly unfit, he said, for any other. One of the places where this undoubted truth is most obvious is when we enter the realm of economics — the place where many Christians refuse to bring the lordship of Christ …
A Very Pink Pig
One of the fundamental distinctions we need to learn to make is the one that exists between market entrepreneurs and political entrepreneurs. The terminology here is DiLorenzo’s — Rothbard made the same distinction, talking about free-market capitalists and state capitalists. The difference is not a slight one — think of a boar free in the …