(Breaking) Matt Walsh Currently Mad About Something
Sources say that the popular blogger Matt Walsh is fuming about some God-awful thing. “The wrong side of the bed,” was how one source close to Walsh described the blogger’s temper. “You’d think he just...
View ArticleYou Have No Reason for Your Rights
How can rights exist after the death of God? See, many early theorists proposed these nebulous rights to be God-given, and that they were violated at the expense of one’s eternal salvation. Put even...
View ArticleIs Self-Interest a Virtue or a Vice?
Recently, I was sitting in one of our chapel services when the guest pastor began discussing political issues. Typically, I enjoy a good political discussion, but I was growing wary of the fact that...
View ArticleWhy Kendrick Lamar Could Be an Emblem of Advent
I was raised in a more-or-less secular household. Of course, Christianity, always existed in the background; I went to Catholic school, but faithful praxis was never in the foreground. Prayer was...
View ArticleConservatives Are Responsible for Liberalism
Fellow contributor Chase Padusniak identified a tension between “conservatism (especially of the Christian variety in the U.S.) and ‘liberalism,'” arguing that it spells “big trouble for American...
View ArticleDo We Live in a Post-Christian Culture?
Image by Aaron Burden via Unsplash. The term “post-Christian” is used often, and therefore often contested. It suggests that our culture, the culture of Western civilization, is undergoing a...
View ArticleFinding Virtue in a Virtue-less Society
Image by Nick Thompson via Flickr. Throughout this week, I have been reading the Nicomachean Ethics by that master of moral structure, Aristotle, who developed a system of morality that has come to be...
View ArticleThe Benedict Option Isn’t One
Q: What is the Benedict Option? A: I’m not sure. Neither is its popularizer, Rod Dreher. (Dreher didn’t invent the idea, but borrowed it from the quasi-Marxist/Catholic philosopher Alasdair...
View ArticleChurches and Skyscrapers: Why We Need Both God and Ayn Rand
Ask random people what they think a “conservative” looks like. Half the respondents will no doubt describe a clean-cut, well-dressed, and very stuffy man with a briefcase, traveling up the elevator of...
View ArticleWithout Religion, There Can Be No Liberal Arts
Princeton University. Image by tpsdave via Pixabay. When Jeb Bush made comments bashing the liberal arts, I was reminded of how such comments are inevitable. Most of us would agree American collegiate...
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