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How Should the Church Prepare for Persecution?

Posted on April 14, 2025 by RC

Apologists for the world inside the church love to downplay the power plays of the powerful. They argue that since, so far, no Christians in the west are being fed to the lions we are not persecuted. Persecution, however, is … Continue reading →

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Trading Deficits- Free Trade Math & Deficit Myth

Posted on April 10, 2025 by RC

Much has been made as sundry populists have rushed to the President’s side in defense of tariffs about the trade deficits the US is purportedly running with other nations. I have good news. There are no trade deficits. Never have … Continue reading →

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Christians Oddly Obsessed With Homosexuality?

Posted on April 8, 2025 by RC

Really? I’m not sure such is true anymore. Some, to be sure. Many professing Christians, however, are joining the world in embracing a love and let love ethic. Given the choice between being culturally marginalized or marginalizing the Bible, too … Continue reading →

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Kingdoms in Conflict, Enemies in Disguise

Posted on March 28, 2025 by RC

“Theological liberalism no longer announces itself with old men in big steeples but disguises itself in young men in skinny jeans and glasses.” I tweeted the above some time ago. From all appearances, based on the responses I received, theological … Continue reading →

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Rebels Without a Cause: Fighting the World With Its Weapons

Posted on March 25, 2025 by RC

It was Marx who argued that, rather than man shaping economic realities, it was the economic realities that shape man. Despite his manifold and manifest follies, he had something of a point here. Setting aside for a moment the chicken … Continue reading →

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Too Easily Distracted, Too Easily Satisfied

Posted on February 7, 2025 by RC

We live in a world where work gets done tomorrow. All deadlines must be flexible, negotiable in our day, lest we have no deadlines at all. Excellence has gone the way of the dodo. We are, in the words of … Continue reading →

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Tipping Points, Peer Pressure and Public Discourse

Posted on January 23, 2025 by RC

One should not be surprised that calamity follows in the wake of post-modernism and its dogmatic truth claim that there is no truth. To deny the possibility of knowing truth is not only self-referentially absurd, but is poison to decision … Continue reading →

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When Libs Speak for God, or The Sour Reign of Pope Lemon

Posted on January 21, 2025 by RC

Sometimes it’s tough to learn our lessons. Don Lemon, some years ago, said this on national TV (if you count CNN as national TV)- “Jesus Christ– if that’s who you believe in— Jesus Christ admittedly was not perfect when he … Continue reading →

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Order Hunger: Understanding The Rise of Christian Fascism

Posted on January 9, 2025 by RC

We all, to our shame, are prone to embracing ideas and behaviors on the basis of what we’ve been through. Trouble is, we usually don’t know we’re doing it. Our experience neither proves nor disproves, makes wise or foolish whatever … Continue reading →

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Bowing Before The Idolatrous Gods of This Age

Posted on January 3, 2025 by RC

Richard Weaver first made a name for himself when he published his seminal work, Ideas Have Consequences. It is a brief work with ideas that are still reaping consequences. He was to the secular academic world something of a Francis … Continue reading →

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