by Kevin Bauder | Oct 22, 2016 | America, Conservatism, Liberalism, Logic and Argumentation, Politics
Can we restore dignity to our degraded times? So asks Bruce Frohnen at The Imaginative Conservative. The very notion of infidelity as a wrong seems outdated today. Presidential candidates of both parties dismiss the thing-in-itself as meaningless or, at most, a...
by Kevin Bauder | Oct 22, 2016 | Catholicism, Christianity, Observations, Tributes
The essay is “Packer at Ninety,” and you’ll find it at First Things. It has been my privilege to know and work closely with Jim Packer for the past thirty-five years, only a fraction of his long and still amazingly productive career. I have seen him...
by Kevin Bauder | Oct 21, 2016 | Bauder's Reading, Charismatic Movement, Pneumatology
He’s responding to the Charismatic theory. As the New Testament makes clear, being a “Spirit-filled” Christian has nothing to do with uttering mindless gibberish, crashing to the carpet in a hypnotic trance, or any other mystical encounter of supposed ecstatic...
by Kevin Bauder | Oct 21, 2016 | Catholicism
McDonald’s would like to open a franchise just off St. Peter’s Square in Rome. Some Cardinals don’t like the idea. How they would feel about a Starbucks we don’t know.
by Kevin Bauder | Oct 21, 2016 | America, Conservatism, Religious Freedom
They’re not the same thing, according to Stephanie Russell-Kraft at Religion Dispatches. And conservatives are tilting more and more toward liberty. Political theorist Hanna Fenichel Pitkin, in her 1988 essay “Are Freedom and Liberty Twins?”, wrote that freedom...
