Imagine a couple of hypothetical scenarios. Both involve your spouse. Say your husband telecommutes to an educational non-profit. He works from home about three weeks a month, and goes to the office for one week of meetings and other business functions. When at home you notice that he sometimes takes an afternoon off and has… Read More→
It is not w-w. Mike Horton tries to make a case that support for gay marriage is a function of w-w: What this civic debate—like others, such as abortion and end-of-life ethics—reveals is the significance of worldviews. Shaped within particular communities, our worldviews constitute what Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann coined as “plausibility structures.” Some… Read More→
For day three of the Old Life Prayer Vigil, a few excerpts from Wendell Berry’s Jefferson Lecture, given this past Monday night in Washington, D.C. First, a cautionary word by implication to the W-Wists: In my reading of the historian John Lukacs, I have been most instructed by his understanding that there is no knowledge… Read More→
Joe Paterno was three years younger than my father and JoePa outlived dad by almost two years. I admired both men greatly, partly because of their decency which may have been responsible for their moral naivete. Recently Angelo Cataldi became indignant over Paterno’s remarks to the Washington Post that even if the report to him… Read More→
Joe Posnanski, a senior writer for Sports Illustrated who is working on a biography of Joe Paterno, wrote a very good column about what to remember about Joe Pa (thanks to MM who should have his own blog). Here is an excerpt: Writing a book comes from the soul. It consumes you — mentally, emotionally,… Read More→
If Church Officers Were Angels
Kevin DeYoung is channeling yours confessionally with a post about the U.S. founders’ view of human nature. He cites a remarkably Augustinian (though he attributes it narrowly to Calvinism — why can’t he be as generous as I?) passage from James Madison’s Federalist #51, which I happened to be teaching yesterday: But the great security… Read More→