by Kevin Bauder | Dec 22, 2017 | In the Nick of Time
I confess to some ambivalence about gift-giving at Christmas time. As an aspect of the Commercial Christmas, the giving of gifts has become something like an abomination. What once was an occasion for giving has become an obligation to give, coupled too often with the...
by Kevin Bauder | Dec 22, 2017 | Central Blog, Uncategorized
Howard Merken at The Imaginative Conservative thinks so. It’s a quirky article, but worth a read. Merken focuses specifically on a Bob Jones University graduate and on Jerry Falwell. A conservative can do what he wants in a free country, and that includes...
by Kevin Bauder | Sep 18, 2017 | Minnesota
The Art Deco Foshay Tower is to Minneapolis what the Wrigley Building is to Chicago or the Chrysler Building is to New York.
by Kevin Bauder | Sep 15, 2017 | Bauder's Reading, Technology, What We're Reading, Worship
Christians have always needed an interconnected set of virtues in order to pray well. Virtues refer to character traits, but character traits can be good or bad; we refer to these, respectively, as virtues and vices. . . . [O]ur new technologies tend to promote...
by Kevin Bauder | Sep 12, 2017 | Bauder's Reading, What We're Reading, Worship
The new technologies’ emphases upon speed, efficiency, multitasking, multimedia presentation, and the like tend to make many characteristic features of Reformed worship—for example, pastoral prayers, the singing of psalms and hymns, sermons, the celebration of the...
