My last post produced meaningful and detailed conversation on many fronts in the “war of ideas” and has prompted Jesurgislac’s new post articulating why pro-choice is the only moral option. Please read that and stay tuned for ongoing discussion here and at Jes’s blog.
This is a good example of the kind of productive dialogue [...]
Archive for July, 2008
Engaging the War of Ideas (Part 4: What of Pluralism?)
Posted in Terrorism, War of Ideas, Worldview on July 30, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Drugs & Terrorism
Posted in Terrorism, War of Ideas on July 28, 2008 | No Comments »
It makes sense that the connection between Drugs and Terrorism is growing:
Of
the forty-three officially designated foreign terrorist organizations
(FTOs), the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has linked nineteen
of them to some aspect of the global drug trade, and believes that up
to sixty percent of terror organizations are connected with the illegal
narcotics trade.
…
Terrorist groups, therefore, are
increasingly in need [...]
Engaging the War of Ideas (Part 3: The Military Challenge)
Posted in Terrorism, War of Ideas, Worldview on July 24, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I am very interested in comments on this post Winning the War with Islamic Fanaticism from the Counterterrorism Blog, especially the concluding paragraph:
If Israel and the West are to succeed in defeating Islamic fundamentalism, which seeks to return the world to an era long before the Enlightenment—to an era of misogyny and wars of religion—we [...]
Engaging the War of Ideas (Part 2: The Conflict–UPDATED)
Posted in Election, War of Ideas, Worldview, tagged 9/11, al qaeda, Islam, religion on July 16, 2008 | 13 Comments »
Updated 7/17/08 for better organization/readability and detail on sources and concluding implications.
WHY THIS MATTERS. The present war of ideas underlying the global jihad against the West relates to all of us, and therefore we must take it very seriously. This is the point I attempted to make in my first post in this series of [...]
Engaging the War of Ideas (Part 1: The Conscience)
Posted in Election, Frontline Leadership, Terrorism, War of Ideas, Worldview, tagged Christianity, citizen-driven government, government, Islam, Terrorism on July 9, 2008 | No Comments »
Where is your place in the current war of ideas with radical Islam?
The Supreme Court, the President, and the Conscience
Posted in General, tagged abortion, mccain, obama, supreme court on July 8, 2008 | No Comments »
From Thomas Sowell:
Whoever is elected to the White House this November is expected to appoint two or three new members of the Supreme Court — justices who will be making major decisions affecting the future of American society, long after that president is gone.
Your children will be living during the lifetime tenure of those justices, [...]
What is Patriotism?
Posted in Election, War of Ideas on July 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
How do you define it? Peter Beinart of the Council on Foreign Relations offers multiple contexts, as defined by the left and right in America and expressed in the two Presidential campaigns concisely in this quote:
What both campaigns understand is that American patriotism wears two faces: a patriotism of affirmation, which appeals more to [...]
New Media Presence and the Local Church (Part 6)
Posted in Christianity, Frontline Leadership, Humility in Practice, Worldview on July 6, 2008 | No Comments »
There is resistance to the gospel that naturally arises anytime a Christian calls a non-Christian to faith and repentance in Christ. There is also a resistance when a non-Christian feels like a Christian is giving them a sales pitch, rather than being a true friend to them.
These two kinds of resistance are not the same. [...]
New Media Presence and the Local Church (Part 5 - Updated)
Posted in Christianity, Communication, Frontline Leadership, Humility in Practice, tagged Christianity, gospel, new media on July 4, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I bet that right now, there are many proven executives and marketplace leaders across the body of Christ who could gain a large new media audience in short order. Could pastors do more to encourage them to do this? I wonder if just a nudge in the right direction wouldn’t make a big difference.
From my [...]
New Media Presence and the Local Church (Part 4)
Posted in Christianity, Frontline Leadership, Technology, War of Ideas, tagged Christian Blogs, Christianity, church, gospel, new media on July 3, 2008 | No Comments »
This is #4 in my response to Jacob Vanhorn’s outstanding questions on new media presence (see first, second, and third posts). It is humbling and sobering to address these questions. I don’t presume any special insights, but would ask anyone reading any of these thoughts to test them against the wisdom of others, bring them [...]
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