Got a Ninctobinkus Broke In It

Michael Spencer has written a thoughtful article on the coming evangelical collapse that has gotten some good circulation, and you can take a gander here. Only two quick comments. First, he is absolutely right that the evangelical movement is in the process of collapsing, but only in the sense that the banks that are all …

Greedmonkeys Regulated by Powermonkeys

I wrote earlier in this place that the election of Obama would be a holy cow moment for American Christians. And thus far, so has it proven to be. Because of the monkeyshines of Bush-era “capitalists,” falsely so-called, the first place that Obama’s incompetence have been given a place to shine is in the realm …

Liberal Arts Education in a Recession

Here a few thoughts for those of you who have been considering New St. Andrews College, but who have also been wondering about the uncertainties created by the economic moon crater we are now living in. Here are just a few additional considerations to put in the hopper. 1. This problem has revealed, as few …

Addiction Is Behavior

“But medical consequences, however terrible, do not make a disease. Many mountaineers break their legs or get frostbite, but mountaineering is not a disease . . . to conceive of opiate addiction as a disease seems, after my experience with thousands of drug addicts, to me to miss the fundamental point about it: that it …

Because Business Isn’t Everything

“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) Growing Dominion, Part 162 “Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds. For riches are not for ever: and doth the crown endure to every generation? The hay appeareth, and the tender grass sheweth itself, …