President Obama seems to be the only high-profile Dem/Lib in the nation with any sense of perspective about the Trump win. Perhaps that’s because he is more keenly aware than almost any living person of the limits of presidential power in our system. (Of course, he spent the last eight years trying to find ways around those […]
More than ten months after I wrote it, and in the light of yesterday’s election, I think this analysis holds up pretty well: Deconstructing the Appeal of Donald Trump
Permit me to tack one additional point onto the book-length dissertation below. In a scenario in which there are no great options at the top of the ticket, it’s important to consider who the vice-presidential candidates are. This is especially so this time around because I believe there is a much greater than normal chance that, […]
Dear young Christian, First of all, I’m sorry. I’m sorry the two major-party choices before us in the presidential election are the worst in living memory . . . perhaps the worst in our nation’s history. Oh, how I wish we had better options. Sadly, we do not. In contrast, back in 1980 having just […]
And eye for an eye . . . until the whole world is blind.
. . . that Mankind’s oldest and bitterest enemy is keenly interested in dividing people along racial (tribal) lines. It’s his oldest, tiredest, and yet still most effective trick. Tribalism has been the spawning ground of murderous hate ever since the very first farmer grew resentful of the very first rancher back in the Garden. In a […]
Captive people long to be free. After several generations of freedom, free people start longing to be taken care of: To be insulated from risk. To be immune from the consequences of their own bad choices. To have somone else look after their neighbor so they don’t have to. To be generous with other peoples’ […]
Found these two headlines in close proximity on Bloomberg.com today.
I attended a funeral service in the old hometown in Oklahoma yesterday. Dr. J. N. Baker was of one of the finest Christian men it has ever been my privilege to know. He was 96 when he passed into heaven last week and was buried with full military honors yesterday. At my house growing up he […]
Martin Luther once wrote: “God will not be able to bear this wicked world much longer, but will come, with the dreadful day, and chastise the scorners of His Word.” Luther died in 1546. God is still bearing this wicked world. And the spirit that moved immature disciples to want to call down fire on […]
