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Commercializing Chaplaincy
I thought this piece in BusinessWeek last month from Mark Oppenheimer was very well done, “The Rise of the Corporate Chaplain.” I think it profiles an important and under-appreciated phenomenon in the mercial sphere. One side of the picture is that this is a laudable development, since it shows that employers are increasingly aware that their employees are not merely meat machines, automata whose value is only to be calculated in terms of material concerns, and that spiritual matters cannot...
How Ayn Rand’s Philosophy Supports the Welfare State
The paradox of Ayn Rand’s philosophy, James Joseph explains, is that her defense of individual freedom provides a “self-defeating apologia for the American welfare state.” Here we have Ms Rand’s answer to the murder-fueled regimes of munism: The Individual is the sole scale of value, individual freedom is necessary to the individual survival, she says, and my survival is the sole end of my existence. Community, in this scheme of values, is entirely without meaning, or at least without objective...
In God We Trust?
Video: At the Democratic National Convention, delegates opposed to adding language on God, Israel’s capital to platform shout, “No!” in floor vote. On Powerline, John Hinderaker quotes from a recent Rasmussen Reports poll to show that “Democrats, bluntly put, have e the party of those who don’t go to church.” Among those who rarely or never attend church or other religious services, Obama leads by 22 percentage points. Among those who attend services weekly, Romney leads by 24. The candidates...
‘There’s an open season on business people’
From the video vault, a classic presentation by Rev. Robert A. Sirico, president and co-founder of the Acton Institute, based on his monograph The Entrepreneurial Vocation. ...
Fr. Sirico on 9/11 and the End of Freedom
In his latest column at Forbes, Fr. Robert Sirico discusses his memories of 9/11 and the end of freedom: One might also be tempted to imagine that the answer to bin Laden’s religious mania is a morally neutral public square. But all the great and successful battles against tyranny, all the efforts to build flourishing free societies in the first place, teach a different lesson. Freedom, as indispensable as it is, is insufficient for constructing a society and culture appropriate...
RELIGION & LIBERTY
What’s Your Power Source?
  What’s Your Power Source?   By Heather Riggleman   “I am the vine; you are the branches, if you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.” – John 15:5   A friend of ours worked one summer at a summer camp. Aside from the terror of caring for eight middle school...
Dec 13, 2025
Evangelicals Agree That Biden Should Drop Out
  With mounting scrutiny over President Joe Bidens fitness for the 2024 election, most evangelical Protestants believe that Biden should drop out of the race, though a sizable number of Black Protestants continue to back him.   A new poll from AP-NORC found that evangelicals agree with the rest of the country: 67 percent of evangelicals and 70 percent of Americans overall...
Dec 13, 2025
How Suffering Brings Us to God’s Presence
  How Suffering Brings Us to God’s Presence   By Sarah Frazer   “God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.” - Psalm 46:1 (ESV)   There is a moment in the classic book The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis when two of the characters are faced with devastating circumstances. Lewis describes it by saying, “I...
Dec 13, 2025
The Joy of Escapist Catastrophism
  Apocalyptic and dystopian myths today are different from the ones we used to have. The dystopian stories of yesteryear were tragedies—dark cautionary tales with unhappy endings. In The Planet of the Apes, Charlton Heston’s character discovers that the dystopian world ruled by apes he’s been trying to escape was actually Earth all along. Brave New World, 1984, and Animal Farm...
Dec 13, 2025
Playing Catch
  Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must. Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War   In his lead essay, Jerry Hendrix argues that the United States and its leaders are unprepared for the re-emergence of great power competition. We agree that the leaders and...
Dec 13, 2025
Religious Liberty in the States
  When Americans think about religious liberty, our minds naturally turn to the protections offered by the First Amendment: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” This amendment, and related federal legislation, offer important protections, but there are numerous areas in which states are free to protect, or not protect, religious liberty....
Dec 13, 2025
In Pennsylvania, Locals Remember Corey Comperatore’s ‘Greater Love’
  Corey Comperatore loved reading Romans.   His pastor at Cabot Methodist Church, Jonathan Fehl, recalled how much Comperatore drew strength from the book. It was the first thing hed recommend to new believers.   But it may be that Comperatore is remembered by another portion of Scripture, John 15:13: Greater love has no one than this: to lay down ones life for...
Dec 13, 2025
Historic First Baptist Dallas Sanctuary Burns in Four
  The historic sanctuary at First Baptist Church Dallas burned Friday evening, July 19. The cause of the blaze is not yet known. The Victorian-style, red brick sanctuary building was erected 1890 and is a recognized Texas Historic Landmark.   According to media reports, Dallas Fire and Rescue received a call at 6:05 p.m., Friday evening regarding a building on fire in...
Dec 13, 2025
Why People Don’t Believe in Jesus
  Weekend, July 20, 2024   Why People Don’t Believe in Jesus   Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me.” (John 14:6 NLT)   It has never been popular to say that Jesus Christ is the only way to God. And perhaps that statement has never been more controversial...
Dec 13, 2025
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