Category Archives: Government/Politics

U.S. Bill of Rights Widget

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The Bill of Rights, first 10 amendments to the United States Constitution, are precious to Americans. You can display them on your website or blog with this widget. Simply select and copy the code shown. Now edit your site’s html and ‘paste’ the selected code where you want the widget to appear. Save your html and reload your site’s page… Read more »

More Widgets for Your Blog

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Here are several widgets we've developed for bloggers to easily display Proverbs, Words of Jesus Christ, the Shorter Catechism, Children's Catechism, Luther's Small Catechism, Heidelberg Catechism, Baptist Catechism, G.K. Chesterton quotes, George Washington's Rules of Civility, Luther's 95 Theses, the U.S. Constitution's Bill of Rights, Haiku Poetry, Jonathan Edwards' Resolutions, and quotes from great composers. My daughter Grace worked on… Read more »

Freedom Through Restoration of Property – Review

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Hilaire Belloc and G.K. Chesterton were the primary champions of Distributism, an economic system neither Capitalistic nor Communistic seeking widespread ownership of property as the chief means to household freedom. Chesterton’s chief work on the topic, Outline of Sanity, points out the troubles of industrialism and describes life under a Distributist scheme. Chesterton’s work does little to explain how such… Read more »

How Should We Then Vote?

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During this election year, I am revisiting the challenging topic of how Christians should vote. This is a complex issue which deserves book-length treatment. Here’s the briefest of sketches of my thoughts thus far. The scripture references are not exhaustive lists. They’re meant to help you with your own study. Your comments and critique of this article are most welcome…. Read more »

Soft Despotism, Democracy’s Drift by Paul Rahe, Review pt.4

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Soft Despotism, Democracy’s Drift by Paul Rahe is an important new book for anyone interested in history of the future direction of modern democratic societies. Here’s part 4 (of several) of my summary and review of the book. Others: Part 1-Montesquieu Part 2-Personal Reflections Part 3-Rousseau In the third main section of Soft Despotism, Paul Rahe examines the works and… Read more »

Soft Despotism, Democracy’s Drift by Paul Rahe, Review pt.3

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Soft Despotism, Democracy’s Drift by Paul Rahe is an important new book for students of history and anyone interested in the direction of modern democratic societies. It would make a fine political theory text for any homeschooler or autodidact. Certainly reading the book along with the original works it surveys would be far more beneficial than any political science class… Read more »

Soft Despotism, Democracy’s Drift by Paul Rahe, Review pt.2

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Soft Despotism, Democracy’s Drift by Paul Rahe is an important new book for students of history and anyone interested in the direction of modern democratic societies. It would make a fine political theory text for any homeschooler or autodidact. Certainly reading the book along with the original works it surveys would be far more beneficial than any political science class… Read more »

Soft Despotism, Democracy’s Drift by Paul Rahe, Review pt.1

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Soft Despotism, Democracy’s Drift by Paul Rahe is an important new book for students of history and anyone interested in the direction of modern democratic societies. It would make a fine political theory text for any homeschooler or autodidact. Certainly reading the book along with the original works it surveys would be far more beneficial than any political science class… Read more »

Beck’s Rally – Idolatry God Detests

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Christians who worshiped with Glenn Beck at his recent Divine Destiny and Restoring Honorevents claim that although Mr. Beck as a Mormon worshiped a false god, the true and living God was honored by the Christians who worshiped Him at the same events. Some further claim that Christians honored God when they publicly approved of Mr. Beck’s words and action,… Read more »

Beck’s Rally as Interfaith Worship

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Popular journalist and author Glenn Beck, a professed Mormon, sponsored two events on August 27 and 28 that focused on honoring God and honoring patriots who have served America. Since the events featured many elements of worship and Beck worships a false god, at first glance I believed the events dishonored the true God and should have been avoided by… Read more »