by Kevin Bauder | Nov 18, 2016 | Culture, Ethics, Liberalism, Politics
Ironic, isn’t it? Liberals have taught us a sense of horror and cultural imperialism and ideological colonization. Yet according to Bishop Emmanuel Badejo, that is exactly what US liberals are doing to Africa. He complains that the USA refuses to help Nigeria in...
by Kevin Bauder | Nov 2, 2016 | America, Conservatism, How the Left Thinks, Liberalism
Stanley Kurtz at National Review wonders about the ethics of some conservative tactics against liberals, but he also notes how the liberal war against conservatives easily becomes one of personal destruction. His closing quotation from liberal Robert Creamer reveals...
by Kevin Bauder | Oct 24, 2016 | Culture, Education, Liberalism
Dispensationalists know E. D. Hirsch best for his work in hermeneutics, where he is a major contributor. Most of the world, however, knows him better for his book Cultural Literacy, in which he argued for the importance of background knowledge as an important key to...
by Kevin Bauder | Oct 22, 2016 | America, Conservatism, Liberalism, Logic and Argumentation, Politics
Can we restore dignity to our degraded times? So asks Bruce Frohnen at The Imaginative Conservative. The very notion of infidelity as a wrong seems outdated today. Presidential candidates of both parties dismiss the thing-in-itself as meaningless or, at most, a...
by Kevin Bauder | Oct 20, 2016 | Ethics, How the Left Thinks, Liberalism, Marriage
Gerald McDermott is an Anglican professor at Alabama’s Beeson Divinity School. He weighs in on the banning of InterVarsity Press by the Society for Biblical Literature in an essay entitled, “Stranger than Fiction.” Perhaps you notice the disconnect...
by Kevin Bauder | Oct 20, 2016 | How the Left Thinks, Liberalism, Marriage, Open Letter
While we have not yet seen a formal announcement from the Society of Biblical Literature, their leadership is supposed to have banned IVP over its recent clarifications on human sexuality. Michael Bird has responded to the SBL leadership in an open letter Fifth, and...