by Ron Henzel | Oct 10, 2018 | Free Speech, Freedom, Offended, Offending Words, Political Correctness, Politics, Progressives
I would be very interested to know what the weather was like in Washington, DC on Thursday, May 22, 1856. It had been an unusually long winter across the Midwest and Eastern seaboard of the United States that year. The capital itself had seen remarkably cold...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Apr 19, 2018 | Culture and Society, David Hogg, Events, Evil, Free Speech, Gun Control, Hate, Mass Shootings, Politics, Progressive education, Progressives
In 1968, the film Wild in the Streets was released. The premise was a simple and a somewhat satirical jab at the burgeoning “anti-establishment,” counter-cultural revolution that was rampant at the time. A senator, played by Hal Holbrook, and Max Frost, a 22 year...
by Jonathan Miles | Feb 8, 2018 | Academia, Academic Philosophy, Apologetics, Deception, Discernment, Gospel, Political Correctness, Politics, Progressive education, Screwtape Letters, Spiritual Warfare
In the first two letters, Lewis plants in Screwtape’s correspondence some philosophy and some ecclesiology.The philosophy is about the precariousness uses of argument. Screwtape dissuades Wormwood from using reason at all to corrupt his patient. “The...
by Jonathan Miles | Dec 14, 2017 | Hate, Liberal Left, Morality, Politics, Social Justice, Virtue
Tu quoque. The term sounds like a special ballet move or what a Shakespearean character might say before he dies. In Latin it means, “You too.” Rumor has it that Julius Caesar said, “Tu quoque mi fili” (You too, my son) rather than the question...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Dec 7, 2017 | Drugs, Homicide, Islam, Lawlessness, Mass Shootings, Morality, Politics, Salvation, Sin, Social tyranny, Violence
Hardly a day passes which doesn’t show us the effects of lawlessness in our culture and how it has changed “normal life.” The effects range from mere “inconveniences” to jeopardizing one’s financial or physical safety. We are not talking about the normal dangers of...
by Jonathan Miles | Oct 12, 2017 | Charter Schools, Discernment, Jehovah's Witnesses, Political Correctness, Politics, Private Schools, Progressives
Every now and then a news article comes along that scares me a little. The Washington Post reported on a social science study to test how politicians respond to evidence that contradicts their ideological positions. I bet you can guess how this went. Our research...
