From the category archives:

Worldview

A Biblical Perspective on Helping the Poor

February 16, 2010

My nephew-in-law, Chris Horst works for Hope International, a Christian based micro-finance and micro-lending organization. He lives in Denver, and has a WordPress blog site called Smorgasblurb, and I just noticed this recent post as being particularly good. It’s called Monthly Musings: Cocaine Charity. I encourage you to check it out.

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Tim Tebow Super Bowl Commercial

February 8, 2010

Well there it was, aired within the first quarter of the Super Bowl, the much discussed, much criticized and maligned Tim Tebow Super Bowl ad. As I watched it, I kept waiting for the hatred, the insensitivity, the objectionable content that so many said was offensive, outrageous and unacceptable for public viewing… especially during the [...]

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Work to End Slavery

January 10, 2010

A group of friends have formed a Local Abolitionists group in Oak Park, Illinois, to fight slavery, human trafficking and the sex trade. More information can be found at LocalAbolitionists.org.
Their next event is the showing of a film called At the End of Slavery – the battle for justice in our time. It is scheduled [...]

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Can Christians be Capitalists?

January 9, 2010

I just listened to Jay W. Richards, author of Money, Greed, and God: Why Capitalism Is the Solution and Not the Problem (HarperOne, 2009) give a talk at the American Enterprise Institute to a predominantly young evangelical Christian audience, addressing this question (Listen Here).
I would have to agree with Jay that the answers is “Yes” [...]

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American Enterprise Institute

January 8, 2010

I wanted to make a few more resources available if you are interested in conservatism, and conservative economics and politics, especially from an American Evangelical perspective. These resources come to me from my son Marshall, who is currently employed in Washington DC, and is definitely in the “minority” when it comes to public policy in [...]

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That Blue People Movie

December 22, 2009

Went to see this epic James Cameron sci-fi, fantasy film over the last weekend with my wife. Saw the 3D version which you wear the glasses for. Unfortunately the theater was so full we could only find seats in the back row or the front row, so we went with the back row. Had a [...]

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Environmentalism as Religion

December 21, 2009

Michael Crichton was a famous author and speaker whose many books have been made into movies such as: Jurrasic Park, Congo, The Andromeda Strain, Sphere, and many others. He also was the creator of the successful and popular ER television series.
Before his death in 2008 from throat cancer, he had became an outspoken skeptic of man-made global [...]

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Conservative Economic and Political Resources

December 8, 2009

A friend recently asked me to put together some resources on the conservative economic and political worldview (especially from an evangelical Christian perspective), so that he could become better informed on this viewpoint. I decided to turn my research and information gathering into a blog post so that others might benefit from it as [...]

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Fundamentalism

September 9, 2009

Dinesh D’Souza writing in “What’s So Great About Christianity?”
Some Western analysts describe the religious revivals around the world in terms of the growth of “fundamentalism.” This is the fallacy of ethnocentrism, of seeing the world through the lens of our own homegrown prejudices. Remember that fundamentalism is a term drawn from Protestant Christianity. It is [...]

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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

December 7, 2008

Shmuel is the name of the boy in the striped pajamas. He is an eight year old Jewish boy in a Nazi concentration camp. Bruno, the eight-year old son of the camp commandant meets Shmuel across the electric barbed wire fence. The film, based upon the book by John Boyne, uses this powerful story to [...]

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