Compasionate Conservatism I must
confess that I had not heard this phrase for a long time. I thought it had been
given up. I was under the misapprehension that they had returned to that other
phase used by conservatives, the nasty party. Apparentl…
BLACK OR WHITE It is nice when people know what is right and wrong, black, or white, to do or not to do! Unfortunately, there are lots of shades of grey. It’s a great pity that the real world we live in is not, yes or no, up or down, right…
TERRIBLE EVIL LEFT-WING SOCIALISTS. I am tired of hearing, seeing reading about how awful these left-wing socialists are. I guess I should acknowledge that a lot of it comes from the Right Wing Press. I began to think about some of these t…
PRIVATE LIVES ARE SEPARATE FROM PUBLIC LIVES? For many years I have been puzzled as to why people think high profile public personalities will be different at home than in the workplace. So, I hear things like, “Oh yes, he lies to his family, but…
Back to Babylon It is interesting to look at history and track our political developments. If you look back to the old-world empires, Assyria, and Babylon, it is evident from a law point of view that the ruler, King (or whatever) had absolute pow…
FAMILY / COMMUNITY Isn’t it interesting how much talk about community and family there is at present? I thought I ought to get in on the act and give my two pennies worth. It’s an important subject. One that I think is somewhat misundersto…
Metanarrative 2. Not the first time I have written on this subject. You may have guessed that I think it is important. What is a “metanarrative” anyway? It means “the big picture”. Or, to put it another way; “a world view”, how o…
Platforming Let me say right from the start that freedom of speech is a crucial aspect of living in a democracy. I also am sure that freedom of speech should be limited to freedom that does not incite violence against others. On the other side o…
WHAT IF? I was Thinking through Tyndale’s translation of the Greek New Testament word, “ecclesia.” Tyndale translated this word in his translation of the Bible as, “congregation”. An, “ecclesia,” was a political assembly of citizens of ancient Gr…
