by Kevin Bauder | Dec 20, 2016 | A. W. Tozer, Bauder's Reading, Devotion, Theology
I do not believe we need more religion; we need a better kind of religion. My great burden these days and for many years has not been for an extension of the kind of religion we have now. It has to be an improvement of the kind we have and then an extension of that....
by Kevin Bauder | Dec 19, 2016 | Conservatism, General Information, Liberalism, Philosophy
No one has improved on the description originally provided by Russell Kirk, who summarized the conservative perspective in six core principles. The list appears in plenty of places: here is one.
by Kevin Bauder | Dec 19, 2016 | Evangelicalism, Reviews
I like to know what people are reading, and I like to know what they liked. Here’s Kevin De Young’s “Top Ten Books of 2016.”
by Kevin Bauder | Dec 19, 2016 | America, Art and Literature, Culture, How the Left Thinks, Liberalism, Philosophy, Politics
Is this fake news? The Daily Mail is reporting that Donald Trump has picked movie star Sylvester Stallone for a government post. The most likely position is head of the National Endowment for the Arts. Predictably, the arts community is hyperventilating. On the one...
by Kevin Bauder | Dec 18, 2016 | Devotion, Poetry
Paraphrased from Isaiah 40:1-5 By Johann Olearius Tr. by Catherine Winkworth Comfort, comfort, ye my people, Speak ye peace, thus saith our God; Comfort those who sit in darkness, Bowed beneath their sorrows’ load. Speak ye to Jerusalem Of the peace that waits for...