by Kevin Bauder | Nov 9, 2016 | Art and Literature, Culture, Education
So asks Jason Baxter at The Imaginative Conservative. Here is part of his answer: Antiquity, then, especially in the Archaic Age, has become for us a kind of buried Atlantis, wherein we can potentially find truth and beauty of exceptional rarity. And the modern...
by Kevin Bauder | Nov 4, 2016 | Culture, Politics
Dwight Longenecker asks why conspiracy theories are popular in America. And he explains why we don’t need them. Read more at The Imaginative Conservative. From the Tower of Babel down through human history it has always been so. The rich and powerful have always...
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 29, 2016 | Christianity, Culture, Devotion, Politics
Somebody said it about Mae West, but it fits Douglas Wilson. When he’s good, he’s very good. And when he’s bad, he’s better. Wilson’s really good with his “7 Encouraging Words in Case 2016 Has Got You Down.” Thanks, Doug. We...
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 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...
