by Kevin Bauder | Feb 7, 2017 | Argumentation and Debate, Civility, Observations, Politics, World Events
Heather Wilhelm is writing about the Trump presidency (and doing it well), but what she says actually applies to much of life. Particularly fundamentalist life. People are welcome to critique whatever they’d like, of course. These days, in fact, it seems that endless...
by Kevin Bauder | Jan 26, 2017 | Civility, Culture, Rhetoric, Sacred and Mundane
Jon D. Payne at Reformation 21 talks about why our words matter. To be sure, the problem of unwholesome speech is not new. It’s been around for ages. I remember on one occasion, while I was young, my parents washed my mouth out with soap after I had used a bad...
by Kevin Bauder | Jan 26, 2017 | Argumentation and Debate, Civility, Education
On January 10 the National Association of Scholars published a report alleging that American universities are teaching civics in such a way as to undermine American civilization. On January 17 Stanley Fish responded in the Chronicle of Higher Education, arguing that...
by Kevin Bauder | Jan 18, 2017 | Civility, Ethics, New Testament
Touchstone Magazine republishes “An Address to Seminary Students on the Forsaken Art of Christian Judgment.” We have a similar problem here. The passage only says to “never make judgments” if we abruptly stop reading before the passage has finished the...
by Kevin Bauder | Jan 3, 2017 | Civility, Culture
The New Criterion is a monthly journal of opinion that reviews the arts and intellectual life. It’s been around since the early 80s and is almost always worth reading. It is not at all a Christian publication; it is not even religious. It is, however, written by...
by Kevin Bauder | Dec 7, 2016 | Anthropology, Baptists, Church Unity, Civility, Ecclesiology, Reports, Soteriology
Some younger fundamentalists have the impression that life in the wider Evangelical world is all peace in the valley, not at all like the quarrels and spats they’ve heard about in fundamentalism. That impression is mistaken. For example, take Paige...
