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United Methodists Wearing A Millennial Evangelical Face

For a few years now, I have been puzzled by why Rachel Held Evans remains popular among many younger evangelicals and why the secular media finds her credible. I was struck by Evans’ recent CNN article “Why Millennials Are Leaving The Church.” When reading the post it es evident that Evans is not talking about the “holy catholic church,” but a narrow subculture of conservative American evangelicals. The post does not address why young adults in America are leaving the...

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DeMint on Changing Washington’s Political Culture

There’s a fascinating profile of Jim DeMint, the new president of the Heritage Foundation, in BusinessWeek, which makes a good pairing for this NYT piece that focuses on the GOP’s “civil war” between establishment Republicans and Tea Partiers. But one of ments that really stuck out to me concerning DeMint’s move from the Senate to a think tank was his realization about what it would take to change the political culture in Washington. As Joshua Green writes, DeMint had previously...

Human Trafficking Enters A New Marketplace: Organ Harvesting

There have been whispers of it before, but now it has been confirmed: trafficking humans in order to harvest organs. The Telegraph is reporting that an underage Somali girl was smuggled into Britain with the intent of harvesting her organs for those desperately waiting for transplants. Child protection charities warned last night that criminal gangs were attempting to exploit the demand for organ transplants in Britain. Bharti Patel, the chief executive of Ecpat UK, the child protection charity, said: “Traffickers...

Oliver O’Donovan in Conversation

Earlier this month, Christian’s Library Press co-sponsored a discussion between Ken Myers, Matthew Lee Anderson, and British moral philosopher Oliver O’Donovan. Held a few blocks from the Capitol building in Washington, D.C., the conversation addressed questions and themes of political theology and was loosely centered around O’Donovan’s 1996 book The Desire of the Nations. Click here to listen to an audio of the conversation on the website of Mars Hill Audio Journal. ...

Charitable Hospitals To Be Fined Under Obamacare

A new provision under Obamacare will fine tax-exempt hospitals via the Internal Revenue Service: A new provision in Section 501 of the Internal Revenue Code, which takes effect under Obamacare, sets new standards of review and installs new financial penalties for tax-exempt charitable hospitals, which devote a minimum amount of their expenses to treat uninsured poor people. Approximately 60 percent of American hospitals are currently nonprofit. Fines could be as high as $50,000 for pliance. Some wonder if this provision...

Drawing Attention To God’s Thumbprint In The World

Every artist, whatever the medium, is a pale example of our Creator God, and the best artists know that. James Lee Burke, whose novels are full of violence and glimpses of evil, seems to be an unlikely candidate for drawing attention to “God’s thumbprint” in our world, but he consciously does just that. In an interview with PBS’s Religion & Ethics Newsweekly, Burke talks about how religion (specifically his Catholic faith) plays a role in his writing. His primary character...

Making The Family Farm Profitable

There is much nostalgia about America’s agricultural past that many seem incapable of releasing. But the reality is forcing a new narrative about the family farm. In an era of globalization and government subsidizing large agribusinesses, family farmers have no choice in the near future but to diversify the use of their land and do something that is actually profitable. In the light of these realities, family farming is slowly ing more of a hobby than a means of making...

The Moral Complexity of Inflation and Default

As the US federal government sidled up to the debt ceiling earlier this week without quite running into it, one of the key arguments in favor of raising the debt ceiling was that it is immoral to breach a contract. The federal government has creditors, both from whom it has borrowed money and to whom it has promised transfer payments, and it has an obligation to fulfill those promises. As Joe Carter argued here, “Member of Congress who are refusing...

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　　Engineers in the service of Emperor Qin Shi Huang, who gave his name to what we now call “China,” built an artificial island in 256 BCE to divide the Ming River near the city of Chengdu, and cut a 66-meter channel through Mount Yulei using heated stones and cold water to crack the living rock. In place of deadly floods,...

Reagan Resurgent?

　　For a president dubbed the “Great Communicator,” it is remarkable how little consensus exists concerning Ronald Reagan’s record. Two new entries into the Reagan imaginary, Max Boot’s weighty biography of the 40th president and the new Ronald Reagan biopic starring Dennis Quaid, have reminded readers and filmgoers of the enduring Reagan enigma that continues to occupy a place of debate...

Parallel Universes

　　Cosmology is a subject that is far too difficult for me. For example, I find it impossible to understand the idea of the Big Bang, let alone the idea that there might be two or more universes. The nearest I can come to understanding the latter is the commentary I see on the Internet regarding the American election. There, people...

What Christmas Cant Do

　　What Christmas Can't Do 　　“The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly” (John 10:10 nkjv). 　　As the Christmas season descends, we’re seeing countless commercials of things we’re supposed to buy. 　　The implied promise is that if you give...

The Conundrum of Woke Capitalism

　　Commerce is supposed to be apolitical. Free-market exchanges promote economic efficiency and consumer welfare because consensual transactions between buyers and sellers are indifferent to anything but the price—Adam Smith’s “invisible hand.” Money is fungible and business is impersonal. All that matters is voluntary cooperation by uncoerced actors. As Nobel laureate Milton Friedman explained in Free to Choose, “The price system...

Wherever You Are, There the Lord Will Also Be

　　Wherever You Are, There the Lord Will Also Be 　　By Keri Eichberger 　　Bible Reading 　　And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age. – Matthew 28:20 　　I’ve always been a beach girl. Claiming this praiseworthy place is where I feel closest to God. “You can have the mountains,” I would say. “Take me to the...

Why Its Crucial to Be on the Same Page with Debt

　　Why It's Important to Be on the Same Page with Debt 　　By: Carrie Lowrance 　　Just as the rich rule the poor, so the borrower is a servant to the lender.(Proverbs 22:7, NLT) 　　Money problems are one of the biggest issues in marriage. It is definitely a topic that needs to be addressed before tying the knot so both parties know...

Cultivating Market Societies

　　Analogies have the power to reveal new relationships and to reframe how we think. Good analogies help us understand the world. They use relationships and phenomena we experience to help us understand more complex or abstract phenomena. On the other hand, bad analogies can cause grave errors. 　　When people with a generally grim view of modernity raise concerns about pollution...

Churchills Recovery of Aristocratic Virtue

　　Churchill introduces My Early Life, his autobiography covering 1874 to 1904, with this observation: “I find I have drawn a picture of a vanished age.” The book is his odyssey. It describes his early wanderings and fortunes as a young officer, journalist, and member of parliament. It depicts not only the actions but also the opinions and convictions of his...

Wisdom of the Aged (Job 12:12)

　　Wisdom of the Aged (Job 12:12) 　　By Jennifer Waddle 　　Today’s Bible Verse -Is not wisdom found among the aged? Does not long life bring understanding?(Job 12:12) 　　There’s great value in the lessons that can be learned between generations. Just as Paul encouraged Timothy in the Bible not to let anyone look down on him for his youth, but to be...

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