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Jon Whitehead retweeted
A husband and wife with four kids will spend $3-4,000 and more per month on medical insurance now, and it buys nothing but the right to pay more when you actually use it. This is an outrage. More outrageous, there is hardly any political talk about this fixing this problem even though the fix is readily at hand. Unsustainable.
Jon Whitehead retweeted
In which I answer some objections to voting NO on 6 in Missouri this November.
Whether the Bible is authoritative about what it means to be human remains the great question of our age.
I was asked to give a lecture next week at a church in Minnesota on what I see as the most pressing issues facing Christians. Here's my rundown I'm working on for my lecture.
— The beginning of life: Reproduction and human dignity.
— The manufacture of life: Genetic engineering and designer children.
— The simulation of life: Artificial intelligence and digital personhood.
— The enhancement of life: Transhumanism and human augmentation.
— The embodiment of life: Biological sex and bodily identity.
— The commodification of life: Surrogacy and reproductive markets.
— The manipulation of life: Surveillance, algorithms, and human agency.
— The extension of life: Longevity and the pursuit of immortality.
— The quality of life: Disability, dependency, and the meaning of dignity.
— The end of life: Assisted suicide and euthanasia.
In a word: bioethics.
The central moral question of our age is increasingly whether human nature is a gift to be received, enhanced beyond our native capacities, or a problem to be solved.
Christians need to be prepared to answer it. I am confident that our doctrine of the imago Dei, coupled with the Christian natural law tradition, provides a sufficient basis and bulwark to guide civilization, if civilization will entertain them.
It is hard to think of these organizations without the people who made them. Few groups have been as successful in the battle of ideas. Dean has been a mainstay at FedSoc for almost as long as I’ve been involved in these issues.
A well earned retirement.
The much harder question, it seems, is whether Spurgeon would be excluded from the SBC for his views on religious tests in government appointments.
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Every hammer has a hidden sickle for James and Mike, the Marx Brothers.
I’m not arguing structural determinism. I’m arguing emergence—closer to Mises than Marx.
I suspect decades of interference in traditional institutions created a set of bad incentives in our everyday lives that some can hardly distinguish from "our tradition." It is our politics that prevents dynamic human response to bad incentives.
I’m not claiming material dialectics. I’m not saying anyone’s moral agency is beside the point. I'm not arguing morality based on social location. Not arguing for the proletariat to overtake the bourgeois. Not arguing for intersectional social justice. Not a transhumanist. Pundits are morally responsible for how they respond to the incentives. So is everyone else. And I specifically distinguish between moral and immoral responses.
What I am saying is that the Marx Brothers are on a comic search for "the guys who are behind these bad ideas." They have more belief the world is run by central control and propaganda than any Leninist or anti-semite. They tilt at "right wing Marxism and Fascism" with the gusto of Don Quixote.
There is absolutely reason to be concerned when there is widespread dissatisfaction with a state's institutions. But they're wrong about where it's coming from.
I think Vance is the only American elite who has some sense that the world is making Tucker(s) and Candace(s) and Nick(s), and not that those three are making the world.
It's not a fin de siecle school of philosophy. It's not social media (though it may magnify anxiety).
My first clue to this was a friend who moved to Europe a political moderate, and came home a decade later an immigration restrictionist.
He had zero connection with the voices I hear blamed for "causing" such changes.
(And to be clear, he was nowhere near having a sinful view. Just a surprising shift 'to the right' completely devoid of any influence from the Americans you'd assume "he must be reading.")
That was my clue that there's are giant, systemic experiences where people are hitting the wall on the tidy versions of classical liberalism and libertarianism. The formal arguments arising out of those experiences are important, but not causative.
Jon Whitehead retweeted
Historian @ProfStonebraker thought she'd achieved the life of a happy and intellectually fulfilled atheist at the start of her academic career, until she encountered the ideas of New Atheists @PeterSinger and @RichardDawkins. This led her to question her assumptions and, ultimately, convert to Christian faith!
More stories like this can be read in the book 'Coming To Faith Through Dawkins' 👉 kregel.com/apologetics-and-e…
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My Op-Ed for Christian Post
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Yet all the departing folks say there is a climate of fear and budget cuts.
One explanation is that these numbers aren’t right, or are about to collapse.
If it were that, though, you’d expect it to come through in the reporting.
So how else to explain it?
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An inquiry by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) has resulted in the arrest of a former Lifeway Christian Resources employee who most recently served as the director of Global Ministry.
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