by Kevin Bauder | Nov 22, 2016 | Culture, Education, Manliness
So say Brent and Kate McKay at The Art of Manliness. They offer eight reasons “Why Every Man Should Study Classical Culture.” Here’s a bit: Our educational system has become increasingly specialized. We’ve created artificial barriers between...
by Kevin Bauder | Nov 22, 2016 | Anthropology, Bauder's Reading, Christianity, Culture, Politics, Sacred and Mundane
Scripture requires a high view of creation and of cultural activity, but it also requires a distinction between the holy things of Christ’s heavenly kingdom and the common things of the present world. It requires a distinction between God’s providential sustaining of...
by Kevin Bauder | Nov 22, 2016 | America, Conservatism, Ecclesiology
. . . we have an electoral college. The American founders were wise enough to understand what the democraphiles do not: population is not the only interest that ought to be represented in an election. The cartoon is from World Magazine online. Incidentally, the same...
by Kevin Bauder | Nov 22, 2016 | Christology, Evangelicalism, Reports, Theological News, Theology, Trinitarianism
I wasn’t at the annual meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society this year. By all accounts, though, the debate about the Trinity was a highlight. Defending “eternal functional subordination” were Wayne Grudem and Bruce Ware. Denying it was...
by Kevin Bauder | Nov 21, 2016 | Apropos of Nothing, Observations, World Events
Actually, it never left. It’s still there. In American Armadillos and British Squirrels. Read the report at Goats and Soda.