by Kevin Bauder | Nov 2, 2016 | America, Evangelicalism, Periodicals, Politics
The Presbyterian professor comes down pretty hard on evangelicals who condemn “locker room talk” in a presidential candidate while failing to challenge the degradation of popular cultural icons. And he’s right: it’s hypocrisy. You don’t lose...
by Kevin Bauder | Nov 2, 2016 | America, Conservatism, How the Left Thinks, Liberalism
Stanley Kurtz at National Review wonders about the ethics of some conservative tactics against liberals, but he also notes how the liberal war against conservatives easily becomes one of personal destruction. His closing quotation from liberal Robert Creamer reveals...
by Kevin Bauder | Oct 31, 2016 | America, Education
The Chronicle of Higher Education has an interactive tool that allows you to find out what a college or university charges for room, board, and tuition. It will also display the data for past years back to 1998. By the way, some of the better fundamentalist schools...
by Kevin Bauder | Oct 28, 2016 | Accountability, Accreditation, America, Education
In the United States, accreditation for colleges and universities is not run by the government, but by private agencies. The various accrediting agencies are approved by the Council on Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA), which in turn is authorized but not governed...
by Kevin Bauder | Oct 27, 2016 | America, Culture, Ecclesiology, Ethics, Evangelicalism, Politics
Andrew T. Walker of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Commission on Ethics and Religious Liberty says no in an essay entitled “The Impossibility of the Apolitical Church.” I have to be very clear about something: The church that insists on calling...
by Kevin Bauder | Oct 26, 2016 | America, Christianity, Politics
Yup. By Ross Douthat. America needs a religious right. Maybe not the religious right it has; certainly not the religious right of Carson and Falwell Jr. But the Trump era has revealed what you get when you leach the Christianity out of conservatism: A right-of-center...
