Tag: Culture
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Chris Banescu: Predators with Ph.D.s
If this doesn’t send chills up your arm, nothing will. Note too the language and logic the academics are using to normalize pedophilia. Sound familiar? All aberrant behavior is being softened. The late Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s telling prophecy that cultural elites are “defining deviancy down” is being fulfilled before our eyes. This must be…
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Rabbi Sacks: Reversing the Decay of London Undone
Source: Catholic Education Resource Center | Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks Britain’s chief rabbi on the moral disintegration since the 1960s and how to rebuild. It was the same city but it might have been a different planet. At the end of April, the eyes of the world were on London as a dashing prince…
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Fr. Gregory Jenson: Conscience and the Christian Life of Virtue
If you are not a regular reader of Fr. Gregory Jensen’s blog Koinonia, bookmark, subscribe, or run down to your nearest internet cafe now! Seriously, Fr. Jensen offers some of the most cogent reflections on the Christian life (drawing deep from the Orthodox moral tradition) of any internet commentator that I know. “As iron sharpens…
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Did Presbyterian Church USA Decline Start With “Dialogue”?
Does this sound familiar? Quoting Alan F.H. Wisdom, Adjunct Fellow of the Institute on Religion and Democracy (IRD): “Progressive leaders have expressed their hope that the church could remain united, that people would not leave. They say that they want to have the contributions and involvement of more conservative Presbyterians in the denomination,” he explained.…
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EPPC: Culture’s Power to Reduce Poverty
Here’s the Progressive matrix: Foster dependency under the rubric of compassion, then point with alarm to the results of the policies in order to make the dependencies permanent. In the meantime, treat the dependents as a market and build industries around the pathologies that developed that are lucrative to Progressive industry — abortion, lobbying, and…