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Since they are obviously in need of defending. Lawrence Henry has made the classic case against modern praise songs--they have trite lyrics and bad music. They are “whitebread,” lacking
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I'll be taking a brief respite from blogging as we are leaving to hike the Grand Canyon this morning. Prayers would be appreciated, as the wife is rather
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Remember Terri Schiavo? Like Schiavo, Jesse Ramirez, a gulf war veteran who was comatose as a result of a car accident, was slated to have his feeding tubes removed. They were taken out for five days but then replaced when […]
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My camping trip to Wadi Rum and Petra in southern Jordan was a rather exhilarating change of pace after last weekend's rather plush accomodations on the Red Sea—
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Today the king of Saudi Arabia visited Jordan. Even if you didn't have access to television, radio, or any of the newspapers you knew he was in town;
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To speak of the “birth and death of the neoconservative movement” would be a misnomer. After all, there was no such movement. Rather, as Irving Kristol argues, neoconservatism is a
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I have sometimes thought that the best way to learn history is not to read a textbook or historical synthesis, but to read about one event, one person, or one
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First impressions matter. It's been a truism in business and sales circles, but no book has demonstrated it as clearly as Malcolm Gladwell's Blink. In the
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When I was young, I had a frightening anger problem. I would throw things, bite people, kick and do whatever it took to get them to understand the depth of
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I have been tempted to read Christopher Hitchens’ latest screed against religion, but have held off in favor of other projects and interests. My main question is whether the new atheists are really any different than the old atheists. I […]
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“I didn’t like his face.” It’s an apocraphal story of Abraham Lincoln and a favorite for preachers everywhere. As a young lawyer, Lincoln allegedly once rejected a prospective employee on the grounds that he didn’t like the man’s face. When […]
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When some people smile they can give you the impression that they still are frowning; when others smile, it can seem like their whole face can't contain the