Truth with Teeth
Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord… -Isaiah 1:18 America was founded on a paradox both political and sacred: that man, though fallen, was capable of governing himself under God. The Founders believed that liberty without virtue was license, and virtue without reason was superstition. So they built a republic upon two...
The biggest danger of a prolonged government shutdown is the mirage of a prosperous nation being shattered. What if the shutdown went on long enough for people to realize that they live not in a prosperous nation, but in a nation of federal dependency? By most outward measures, the United States appears wealthy beyond precedent....
Every movement needs an adversary. Every cause, a culprit. So the activist, the partisan, the reformer all invoke a shadowy pronoun: they. They are the elites. They are the corrupt. They are the problem. The word absolves the speaker. It is cleansing, surgical. By naming them, we declare ourselves innocent. Yet this linguistic division conceals...
The attitude of the Church today is, in many ways, quite different from that of the Apostolic Church. The early believers lived in the shadow of the Roman Empire, where loyalty to the state was not merely political but religious. The emperor was hailed as savior and lord, and citizens were expected to burn incense...