by Kevin Bauder | Oct 31, 2016 | Art and Literature, Culture
Why do we have fewer Christian (taken broadly) thinkers and writers influencing the public square? The answer to this question is being debates in a series of articles at Image. The essays are by Morgan Meis; the responses by Gregory Wolfe can be found in the...
by Kevin Bauder | Oct 28, 2016 | Art and Literature, Ethics
C. R. Wiley asks, “Is Horror Fiction Immoral?” The answer is a bit surprising. “The horror genre may be the most morally-structured popular literary form we have.” Well, maybe.
by Kevin Bauder | Oct 27, 2016 | Art and Literature, Culture, Education
Barton Swain on the use of the generic masculine: My general attitude is to wish the whole problem away and just use masculine pronouns. The obsession over gendered pronouns is part of a general tendency in recent decades to treat social and political questions as...
by Kevin Bauder | Oct 19, 2016 | Art and Literature, Christianity, Christology, Soteriology
The restoration of the famous painting depicting the “Adoration of the Mystic Lamb” is now complete. Read the story here.
by Kevin Bauder | Oct 17, 2016 | Art and Literature, C. S. Lewis, Christianity, Conservatism
If you ignore the references to Catholicism and substitute the word conservative for Catholic, Glen Arbery’s essay at The Imaginative Conservative has something useful to say. Here is his conclusion, but you will want to see how he gets there. At present,...
by Kevin Bauder | Oct 17, 2016 | Art and Literature, Bauder's Reading, Church Services, Conservatism
I recently came across this snippet from Tozer: Dr. Simpson used to say, “Being filled with the Spirit is as easy as breathing; you can simply breathe out and breathe in.” He wrote a hymn to that effect. I am sorry that it is not a better hymn, because it is wonderful...
