Tag: C. S. Lewis
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Voting for the Common Good
My blogger friend, Allan Bevere, asked me to write a post for his blog regarding what motivates voters. Specifically, do voters vote for self-interest or the common good? I'm posting it here a day later. ************ Nearly a century ago, a young boy named Ezekiel Bulver overheard his parents arguing. It seems Mr. Bulver was…
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Olympians Behaving Badly
PowerBlog: Olympians Behaving Badly … This may sound like a curmudgeonly grumbling about young people just having fun. I wish it were so. It would be less of a problem if entertainers—whether Olympic athletes or actors and rock stars—did not play such a central role in shaping our culture. Our post-industrialist, highly technological culture is…
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Best of It: C. S. Lewis – The Christian Individual
[Series Index] [Today we move into Part 2 of Making the Best of It by John Stackhouse. We will look at three twentieth-century theologians Stackhouse considers resources for recovering Christian realism: C. S. Lewis, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Dietrich Bonhoeffer. He devotes about forty pages to each of these men. I aim to extract some salient…
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New Climate for Science (Part 4)
I have pointed out in this series that there is an increasing complexity involved in making policy decisions. As Anthony Giddens pointed out, authorities operating with incomplete information are always in a tension between being seen as scaremongers if they push an issue too hard, or being accused of cover-up if they fail to make…