Jonathan Merritt is a journalist. His most recent book “A Faith of Our Own” is written in a journalist’s rather than a policy-advocate’s or theologian’s style. He employs metaphors and anecdotes which occasionally seem forced, but manage to keep the reader engaged. He prefers to let others make his strongest points for him in well [...]
IFWE’s Art Lindsley has a post today on the Biblical law of Jubilee. I’ve commented there, and reproduce the comment here.
Among the first thoughts that occur to me regarding Jubilee:
1. The importance of the role of tribes within the Jubilee laws is important. Jubilee serves as a constitutional construct that protects the decentralization [...]
I’ve read many comments and blog posts on Obama’s “You didn’t build that” comment and on Elizabeth Warren’s similar statement. I agree with much of what has been said, but almost all of it has missed what I think is a much more basic point. Indeed, much of what has been written has tended to [...]
Smith, a graduate of GMU, where I am a student, has a piece today in the AEI’s American lauded by Bryan Caplan among others. Here is my response:
I enjoyed your piece about Civil Disobedience and Jose Vargas.
One element I wonder why you left out:
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. famously quoted Edmund Burke, “The only thing [...]
I recently read Jonathan Merritt’s “Green Like God,” an evangelical call to stewardship of creation.
I am always suspicious of greeny-type arguments, for reasons I will explain presently, but I decided to give Merritt the benefit of the doubt inasmuch as that is possible from a biased perspective, and we are all biased by what [...]
A former student recently asked for advice in their job search. The exercise of producing advice was fruitful. I share my thoughts here. Please add your recommendations as well.
1. Indeed This website has more and better jobs than some of the other sites. But do also check out Monster and the Washington Post Jobs [...]
I’ve just watched a talk by Dan Klein on his new book. Dierdre McClosky and Peter Boettke were on hand as discussants. Let me say by way of disclosure that I have had two courses with Boettke, have had multiple encouraging discussions (over meals, usually) with McClosky, and was graciously invited to present a paper [...]
I’ve shied away from the label “Libertarian,” preferring “juris naturalist” though in some circles the idea of Natural Law means something that doesn’t work well for me either. However, recently Joe Carter challenged the internet to provide a reconciliation between Libertarianism and Christianity.
I decided, before reading other people’s responses, to provide one of my own:
Am [...]
Constantine married Christianity to Empire. Henry VIII married Christianity to Monarchy.
Evangelicalism, it seems to me, is the attempt to marry Christianity to parliament.
This is the theme of a good deal of my thoughts lately. I began by investigating the abolition of slavery in Great Britain. The story of Wilberforce is powerful and inspiring, if one [...]
I have not yet read Piper’s book Bloodlines. So I don’t have an opinion on that.
But Mulder’s review sets me to thinking.
He argues that Piper makes a mistake in arguing for a miracle approach to resolving racial injustices. That is, Piper says that what is needed to overcome racial injustices is for whites and blacks [...]