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Odds and ends from my mental hard drive

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

An encouraging development

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From Jonathan Macey @ Politico: This time it is the Wall Street bankers and not the Occupiers who are getting hit with pepper spray. The spr...
Monday, November 28, 2011

Moses' story. . . and mine

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Psalm 90 is the only psalm attributed to Moses. It is a confession of faith and a prayer. The foundational truth is expressed at the beginn...
Wednesday, November 23, 2011

The advantage of a thankful heart (Flavel)

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One more quote from John Flavel's The Mystery of Providence . . . This I dare presume to say, that whoever finds a careful and a thankfu...
Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Howard Zinn, the 99%, and the problem of the 100%

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If the Occupy Wall Street movement had a sacred text it should be A People's History of the United States . This polemical history was H...

Slim

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One of the marks of a great fiction writer is the knack for creating vivid three-dimensional characters with a minimum of fuss and type spac...
Friday, November 18, 2011

November - December

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Rushmore (dir. Wes Anderson, 1998)
Thursday, November 17, 2011

Which Christianity? (Keller)

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The first half of Tim Keller's The Reason for God deals with some common objections secular Westerners have to Christianity. How could ...

Calvinism, Arminianism and foreknowledge

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Michael Horton writes: "Among the caricatures of Calvinism is the widespread claim that it renders God the author of evil, suffering, ...
Wednesday, November 16, 2011

GOP disconnect

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Henry Olsen writing in The Weekly Standard gives some of the reasons why I'm not the reliable Republican vote I used to be. The GOP bas...
Monday, November 14, 2011

How soccer explains Berlusconi

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Yesterday Silvio Berlusconi resigned as Prime Minister of Italy. He'd managed to survive years of sensational tabloid headlines and more...
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