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Saving the Littlest Lives: On This Monday’s Pro-life Conference
This coming Monday, January 23, 2012 from 8am-11:30am (EST), I’ll be blogging and “live-Tweeting” the ProLifeCon, put on by Family Research Council. I’m very glad that FRC is such an outspoken and courageous defender of the unborn, and I hope … Continue reading
Men, Temptation, and the Gospel
Harvey Mansfield, Harvard professor of politics and 2011 Bradley Prize winner, just wrote a provocative piece on the distinctive characteristics and faults of men for The Weekly Standard. It’s entitled “Manliness and Morality” and I commend it to you. Several … Continue reading
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Weekly Standard: Global Warming Consensus Crumbling; Also, Krauthammer on Healthcare
The Weekly Standard has published a piece by Steven F. Hayward entitled “In Denial: The Meltdown of the Climate Campaign” that is a must-read for thinking Christians and others interested in supposed man-caused climate change. According to Hayward, F. K. Weyerhauser … Continue reading
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Low Impact Man: A Funny Take on the Unsustainability of the “Sustainable” Life
Matt Labash of The Weekly Standard has a very funny piece up called “The Adventures of Low Impact Man”. Some of you have heard of Colin Beavan and his efforts to live what he calls a “low impact”, non-wasteful life. … Continue reading
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The Link 10.30.09: The Swell Season, the World’s Best Dunker, and Anti-Heroes
A number of fun things for your Internet consumption today. 1. Have you heard of The Swell Season? It’s the duo that produced the film “Once.” Excellent music. You can stream most of the cd online. 2. You read this … Continue reading
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Charles Krauthammer on American Decline
The always provocative Charles Krauthammer recently published a piece entitled “Decline Is a Choice” in The Weekly Standard that chronicles how liberal political thought is causing the decline of America. Here’s a snatch comparing Europe’s decline and America’s heretofore dominance: … Continue reading
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The Link 8.28.09: Street Basketball, Band of Horses, Lead09 Conference
1. Linked at Truehoop, the best basketball blog on the web, this is one of the best pieces I’ve read about the experience of playing basketball. Don’t worry–I have read many. 2. Have you heard the song “The Funeral” by … Continue reading
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The Link 3.13.09: New Calvinism and Facebook Flaming
1. Neo-Calvinists, restless young theologians, we have been discovered by the secular media. Time magazine just included “The New Calvinism” as one of its ten world-changing ideas (HT: JT). This makes sense. We are a weirdly fascinating bunch. We defy … Continue reading
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