Posted in Worldview on March 14, 2008 | No Comments »
From Peggy Noonan:
In the most successful political careers there is a purpose, a guiding philosophy. Not an ideology-ideology is something imposed from above, something abstract dreamed up by an intellectual. Philosophy isn’t imposed from above, it bubbles up from the ground, from life. And its expression is missing with Mr. McCain. Political staffs inevitably treat [...]
Posted in Citizen-Driven Govt, Election, Frontline Leadership, War of Ideas, culture on March 12, 2008 | No Comments »
Courtesy of David Aikman, another direct question that deserves a clear response to the American people from Senator Obama:
While it’s right to take him at his word that he’s a Christian, the issue of his Muslim father won’t go away so easily. According to Shariah, Islamic law accepted as normative by the world’s one billion [...]
Posted in Citizen-Driven Govt, Communication, Frontline Leadership, Media Democratization on March 11, 2008 | No Comments »
The power of citizen-driven government, powered by the blogosphere, is starting to emerge in the Obama-Rezko case. Finding the “needle in the haystack” is a multi-purpose, multi-function process that is best addressed in a distributed way, and the evidence is suggesting that mainstream media are less able to provide this sort of political coverage [...]
Posted in Humility in Practice, Marriage & Family, culture on March 11, 2008 | No Comments »
The Eliot Spitzer case is a sobering reminder that political power presents tremendous temptations that imperil one’s private and primary roles. While the political backlash unfolds, and voices such as this, this, this, and this outline the public ramifications, I am mostly struck at the great tragedy this is for Spitzer as husband and [...]
Posted in Christianity, Frontline Leadership, Science, War of Ideas, Worldview on March 9, 2008 | No Comments »
To change one’s own heart, or to measure the age of the universe?
Here is an exercise for testing your heart towards others…Read this and the comments below and see what springs up: The Universe Is 13.73 Billion Years Old. The news:
The age of the universe is now known to unprecedented accuracy: 13.73 billion years [...]
Posted in Communication, Election, Frontline Leadership, Media Democratization on March 7, 2008 | No Comments »
One of the most encouraging signs for the progress of American Democracy can be seen in this post by Hugh Hewitt today. It is an example of grassroots communication across the blogosphere to dig up the details of Barack Obama’s real estate dealings with Tony Rezko. The point is not what will happen [...]
Posted in Election, Generations, Marriage & Family, War of Ideas, culture on March 7, 2008 | No Comments »
Al Mohler calls the decision A Bolt From the Blue. Please read the article and heed Mohler’s concluding words:
This is a controversy that demands the attention of all parents. After all, if parents have no constitutional right to educate their own children, what other aspects of the parent’s choices for their own children lack [...]
Posted in Christianity, Election, War of Ideas on March 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »
From Al Mohler today:
Obama: Bible Teacher?
At a campaign event in Ohio this week, Barack Obama defended civil unions for same-sex partners by citing the Sermon on the Mount. He also dismissed St. Paul’s condemnation of sex between two people of the same gender as coming from an “obscure passage in Romans.” In fact, that [...]
Posted in Election, Frontline Leadership, Terrorism, War of Ideas, Worldview on March 2, 2008 | No Comments »
Been traveling, studying, working, and otherwise occupied with little free time to write lately. Certainly that is more stunting for me than you.
But in the meantime I have had some outstanding conversations with new and old friends, about new and old topics. I have learned from my friends at Barry University that the [...]
