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Concerning Republics and Democracies


This blog post is a response to a reader’s recent email.  In that email the reader sent an article (not authored by the reader) discussing the difference between a republic and a democracy.  The article was sent by the reader because I used the term democracy several times in a recent blog post (Advice to [...]

The Cost of War


The Congressional Budget Office recently released a report tracking spending in the Iraq War over the last eight years in comparison to the total national deficit. Fox News picked up the data in a recent article and compared the total cost of the war to the total cost of the recent Stimulus Bill. Here is [...]

What Atheism Lacks


For those of you who didn’t know Steve Martin was a musician (yes, that Steve Martin)… A comical theological argument in song: Atheists Don’t Have No Songs Thanks to Jay Guin for posting this on his blog so I could enjoy it.

"Heavenly Appeals" a short film by David Lisbe


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A Weekend Warning


“The wage of the righteous leads to life, the gain of the wicked to sin.” Proverbs 10:16, ESV Have a safe and holy weekend!

Advice to Christians Concerning Religious Freedom


Obama re-centered himself in the conservative political cross-hairs recently when he seemed to make statements supporting the building of a mosque near Ground Zero (not at Ground Zero, as the media consistently implies). At the same time, New York (among other regions) also faces a debate over how public schools ought to handle religious holidays, [...]

Love on a Leash


Imagine a world between Heaven and Hell where glorious, heavenly, eternal beings attempt to convince opaque, weak, near-sighted ghosts that they need to let go, admit their guilt, and give up their false-hopes and false-loves in order to become solid, real, and joyful. This is the allegorical world of C.S. Lewis’ The Great Divorce. One [...]

On Life and Music


John Denver was a talented musician, a hero in the folk music realm. If he had one musical weakness, though, it was this: he never wrote a song in a minor key. He always wanted to write upbeat music, the kind that makes people smile. But, music, like life, is more complex than that. It [...]

Sun-fried Eggs?


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