O Ben FinitiBritish Prime Minister David Cameron has made a most important speech. Unsurprisingly, our media didn’t notice. On Dec. 16, he spoke at a Christ Church, Oxford celebration of the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible. He proclaimed the Bible as still relevant, and admitted (confessed?) that Britain is in a very real sense a [...]
Over the recent years, I have developed an interesting new hobby. (Well, I find it interesting.) I prowl through thrift stores in search of forgotten books by forgotten authors. And then I liberate them (usually for a dollar) and read them. I pass quickly over certain types of books. For instance, I have never bought [...]
One argument against the truth of Christianity is that if Christ came to change the world, He clearly failed. History AD is no more moral or loving than history BC. Indeed, the very institutions of Christianity succumbed almost immediately to the very sins of pride and power that were the target of Christ’s preaching. Christ [...]
The Enlightenment of the 18th Century was the birth of the movement to articulate a rational basis for society and the freedom of the individual. The French Enlightenment (Descartes, Rousseau, Voltaire, Robespierre) was directed against the church, seeing religion as mankind’s primary oppressor. And it took a strongly ideological form from the start, being [...]
I feel grateful for all I have – for so much. For my wife, my daughter, my life, my health, my friends. The beauty of nature, music, poetry. But…to whom? One cannot be grateful to nothing or no one. “Thank you” demands an identifiable “you”. My wife? I thank her. And her parents, for having [...]
