“That’s why the Church of England and the Episcopal Church and the Congregational Church and the United Church of Canada and many others are sinking beneath the bog of their own relativistic mush, while Islam is the West’s fastest growing religion. There’s no market for a faith that has no faith in itself” (Mark Steyn, …
Big Brother”s Eyeball
“Yet television is at its heart a totalitarian medium. Because television signals originate at a single station and are sent top-down to the masses, tyrants everywhere push TV sets onto their people” (George Gilder, Life After Television, p. 46).
Education and the Home
In his next chapter, Rod Dreher says many admirable things about education. And I think he is correct that education is right at the center of our battle for the heart and soul of our culture. “If Russell Kirk is right, and the family is the institution most necessary to conserve, there is almost nothing …
Right Pretty
It may not seem relevant right now, but Abigail was a beautiful and intelligent woman. Christians are good at fighting relativism when it comes to matters of truth. Those who reject a fixed standard of truth are soon engaged in debate by capable Christian apologists. Believers also do well when the subject at hand is …
Mastering the Parlance
“Whatever the arguments for and against ‘gay marriage,’ there are never going to be many takers for it. But the justifications for same-sex marriage are already being used to advance the cause of polygamy, and there are far more takers for that. It’s already practiced de facto if not de jure in France, Ontario, and …
Down in the Cultural Bilge
“People have little in common except their prurient interests and morbid fears and anxieties. Necessarily aiming its fare at this lowest-common-denominator target, television gets worse and worse year after year” (George Gilder, Life After Television, p. 15).
Jerry Falwell, R.I.P.
Jerry Falwell went to be with the Lord yesterday, and I wanted to take a moment to pay my respects. Anyone who has read very much of what I have written knows that he belonged to a very different theological stream than do I. Nevertheless, he believed the Bible, and held to the central tenets …
The Way of All Flesh
I caught a portion of the Republican debate last night, and was fascinated by the response to Ron Paul — a Republican actually worth considering. He actually believes in small government. But when Paul said that terrorism is a concern because of our agressive foreign policy, it is not surprising that sparks flew. In an …
Fully Accredited
How do we know when someone is competent? How do we know whether they know what they are doing? Why, we ask to see their papers. Whenever we are not content with the word of God on a given subject, we do not have the option of remaining neutral, of doing nothing. The only alternative …
But They Are Adapting
“Muslims have assimilated brilliantly, at least when it comes to mastering the principal discourse of the advanced democratic state—the legalisms, victimology, and entitlement culture” (Mark Steyn, America Alone, p. 82).