by Kevin Bauder | Oct 20, 2016 | Alumni, Conservatism, Ethics, Homiletics
Joel Zartman says that we do, partly because we cannot trust ourselves. Read the whole thing at Unknowing. Which is why you need rhetoric. You have to be conscious of it if you want to do it at all well, unless you naturally do it well. It requires consideration, and...
by Kevin Bauder | Oct 19, 2016 | Conservatism, Economics, Ethics
Albert Mohler offers “Twelve Theses for a Christian Understanding of Economics.” Read them at the Washington Times. Some economic systems treat the idea of private property as a problem. But Scripture never considers private property as a problem to be...
by Kevin Bauder | Oct 19, 2016 | Conservatism, Education, Liberalism
His personal reflections, stemming from his own university experience. At the Intercollegiate Review. By the way, Christian students who aren’t members of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute ought to be. Of course, Christians do not believe only in moral laws...
by Kevin Bauder | Oct 18, 2016 | Conservatism, Liberalism, Marriage, Religious Freedom
According to Anthony Esolen, it’s not just a war over pronouns, but over reality. Read him here. The sexual revolution always has been a war waged against the ordinary family, against the ordinary ways of men and women and children. The moral law as regards sex...
by Kevin Bauder | Oct 18, 2016 | America, Conservatism, Politics
Can you have one without the other? Carlos Flores says NO. The social conservative observes that nature has providentially provided such an environment for the formation of a virtuous people who are ready to participate in (or establish) a political project: the...
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,...
