The social network that you can wear
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- February 6, 2015
For many, the story of Senator Joseph McCarthy and his anti-Communist political witch-hunt is little known or little remembered. After all, the infamous hearings ended over sixty years ago! But recent events show an uncanny resemblance to those times. At the nadir of McCarthy’s purge there was a conflation of false morality, Christianity and anti-Communism.
READ MORE“The end of liberalism is in sight,” writes Patrick J. Deneen, a Notre Dame political scientist, in his widely acclaimed new book, Why Liberalism Failed.”1And this may lead “either to liberalocratic despotism or the rigid and potentially cruel authoritarian regime.” This dire prediction recalls Martin Heidegger’s Der Spiegel 1966 interview, published after his death in
READ MORECheerleaders’ silver-and-teal pom-poms sparkle in the panoramic waves of movement and color that accompany a typical National Football League game for the Miami Dolphins. Coaches, like restless generals, clipboards in hand, pace the sidelines while dwarfed by a revolving door of massive players. It’s a game of X’s and O’s, strategy, offense and defense, teammates
READ MOREWhen the world changes too rapidly, people become fearful. When people become fearful, conflicts erupt. Conflicts destroy what little security people have left. A little more than 77 years ago the United States faced unprecedented menace, instability, uncertainty, and violence. Europe was in convulsion. Refugees by the millions were streaming across the violated borders. England,
READ MOREIt is time for the faith community to take a more visible stand on gun control. Flags out front at half-staff . . . thoughts and prayers. The silence is deafening. Where is the church? Who among us stands with the teens from Parkland? Teenagers attend our Bible schools every week. We love them dearly;
READ MOREWhen Whittaker Chambers, the chief witness against Soviet spy Alger Hiss, reduced the cold war down to faith in God versus faith in man, anti-Communist secularists pounced. Leading the charge was the atheistic anti-Communist professor Sidney Hook, who asserted that the backbone of the resistance to Communism was made up of secularists like him. But
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