Battacharya’s article (see Part One) pushes a policy of governmental interference, which is a bad direction, though I applaud his acumen in addressing the public. His view of how science can be fostered, however, is the real problem. Without recognizing
Science is a crucial part of modern religiosity. By science, man proposes to conquer the world; by science, man proposes to achieve at least longevity and perhaps immortality; by science man claims to have dismissed the illusion of God. So
The churches of the West are fundamentally compromised not by doctrine but by motive. Many a church has basically serviceable doctrine. They know their soteriology to the point of salvation and farther. They are perfectly orthodox on God’s nature. But
Many a Christian- man, woman, father, mother, family- comes to the church in hopes of finding community. Then, all too often, he finds that while the church is friendly and despite all potlucks and after-Sabbath suppers, he never gets past
Humor is all sorts of stuff, all sorts of drama. Much of humor has not much of a point besides the joke itself. Anecdotes can be pointed, but just as often as not they’re pointless, just scenarios running of stereotypes
We’ve a bigger foe in the West. Worry about Islam’s rise in the West is a bit of a chorus in certain parts of the conservative right. I do not discount the validity of these worries, in themselves. Islam’s star
We must do it. One common talking point in geopolitics punditry is the impossibility of negotiating with somebody who will not keep his word. Without trust, they say, actual agreements are just not possible; all they represent are concessions whose
I am, as I’ve probably made sufficiently clear, a theonomist. I am also a Presbyterian, whatever my quarrels with certain parts of the tradition may be. I can offer only slightly-qualified endorsement to the 1788 Westminster Confession of Faith. But,
We cannot edit the law. Many of us have sympathy for the Biblical civil law’s list of crimes. We find murder, rape, theft, adultery, theft, and even blasphemy highly objectionable, and we can see how at least a little punishment
Discretion can become rebellion. A certain strain of Christian Nationalism (and its adjacent positions) places a strong emphasis on the necessary adaptation of principle to circumstance. Stephen Wolfe, for instance, speaks of a necessary discretion, adapting natural and divine law