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 24, 2017 | America, Art and Literature, Culture, Social Issues
The Washington Post reports that as part of his budget-cutting measures, President Trump wants to pull the plug on the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He also wants to privatize the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. As...
by Kevin Bauder | Jan 20, 2017 | Christianity, Conservatism, Culture, Death and Dying, Memorials, Tributes
David Oestreich passed away on Wednesday after a brief stay in the hospital. A resident of northwestern Ohio, Oestreich was still a young man with a young family. He was one of the most important voices of his generation for conservative Christianity. A poet, critic,...
by Kevin Bauder | Jan 20, 2017 | Art and Literature, Christianity, Culture, Library, Library Tips, Poetry
Cosmophagy is a book of nature poems by David Oestreich. Here’s the blurb on the jacket: If you sit up at night thinking about leaves realizing “they’re each alone / and out on a limb,” or wait for “each day to be sliced in half”...
by Jeff Straub | Jan 16, 2017 | America, Baptists, Culture, Ethics
Historic Washington D.C. Baptist church calls lesbian couple as co-pastors. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/jan/9/lesbian-couple-hired-co-pastor-dc-church/
by Kevin Bauder | Jan 9, 2017 | Art and Literature, Culture, J. R. R. Tolkien, T. S. Eliot
“Don’t lecture, inspire.” So says John Stonestreet in “Tolkien, Eliot, and the Power of Story.” Christian musician and novelist Andrew Peterson says, “If you want someone to hear the truth, you should tell them the truth. But if you want...
