Monuments are mnemonic devices. They help us memorize images that represent a certain historical narrative. If you take a stroll through the National Mall in Washington D.C., you will encounter ...
Protests against the financial repercussions of certain environmental policies are breaking out in Europe. On November 17, more than 300,000 people demonstrated all over France under the banner of Gilets ...
A few weeks ago, I attended a lecture on the relationship between community and individual identity. The lecturer began with the notion of recognition; specifically, how communities acknowledge and validate ...
Communities are formed naturally through shared experiences. They grow out of the hopes, struggles, and aspirations of their founding members. The Israelites, for example, were freed from Egypt as slaves, ...
Emotions are powerful. Their rise and fall, twist and turns, can make life feel like a roller-coaster. Some days we are in control of our emotions, and we feel at ...
Towards the end of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, the protagonist, John (“the Savage”), is introduced to Mustapha Mond, the “Resident World Controller for Western Europe.” Mond presides over one ...
In The Creation Story, Part I, we discussed the Hebrew term ha-adam. God creates ha-adam out of nothing (creatio ex nihilo), and thus man is created free. The creation of ...
The Book of Genesis begins with creation. God creates the heavens and the earth. He creates light to illuminate the heavens and the earth. He creates the waters and the ...
The Libertarian Christian Institute outlines five core values, the third of which is that “Social Institutions Matter for Human Flourishing.” Christian libertarians will not blink at the defense of social ...
Donald Trump has become the first sitting United States President to meet with a North Korean Leader. Depending on who you read, the summit was a distraction, offensive, nearly miraculous, ...
A common criticism of capitalism is that it is inherently immoral. Capitalism is conflated into some type of economic Darwinism – survival of the wealthiest. To be a successful capitalist ...
God has gifted us with free will. We can choose between right and wrong, good and evil. We are free to follow Him or walk away. The gift of free ...
Who believes in the invisible hand nowadays? Keynesian techniques are the only techniques we can confidently expect to be implemented during economic turbulence. And can any citizen of a world ...
It’s not uncommon to find Christians defending their political sympathies with isolated Scripture verses. Jesus can be construed as a Democrat, Republican, anarchist, socialist, communist, or (of course) as a ...
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