I need to begin with two important qualifications. First, Christians are commanded to “weep with those who weep” (Romans 12:15) and we are commanded to care for the sick. Compassion must always be our first response to tragedy but, sadly, too often that is not the case. In what follows I’m not writing on how […]
Disaster Is Always a Call to Repentance! Read More »
I’m going to introduce my wife, Jean E. Jones. Here’s why. One of the things that concerns me today is that so many authors have earned various degrees, and garnered various accolades, and published many books, but, sadly, if you get to know their lives you find that they aren’t ones to imitate (it isn’t
Introducing Jean E. Jones as a Woman You Can Trust Read More »
A major study has concluded that women have become increasingly unhappy.1 By many objective measures the lives of women in the United States have improved over the past 35 years, yet we show that measures of subjective well-being indicate that women’s happiness has declined both absolutely and relative to men. The paradox of women’s declining
Feminism Is Making Females Miserable Read More »
So you’ve committed a sexual sin, again. And sinned again. And again. For the one-millionth time. Again. Of course you stopped counting long ago (okay, let’s be honest, no one counts—and how big is a googolplex really?) and you’re disgusted with yourself. What should you do? First, confess it to God (I realize that for
So You’ve Sinned Again… and Again Read More »
Even many non-Christians are hoping that there is a hell for people like Osama Bin Laden. After all, how can his one death make up for the fact that he has killed thousands? So we look for ultimate justice and hell provides that. But sadly the OBLs of the world often obscure a deeper truth—that
Osama Bin Laden, Hell, and You? Read More »
Two days ago I wrote that “Communism’s failure to recognize human selfishness was the number one reason for its collapse.” Similarly, if Ayn Rand’s objectivism was ever fully implemented, her failure to recognize the depths of human selfishness will be the number one reason for its collapse. But, that might have already happened! As you
Ayn Rand—the Ugly: Rejection of Oversight Read More »
As we have already seen, Ayn Rand and self-esteem go together like Marco and Polo. One of her “inner-circle” disciples, Nathaniel Branden, is often called “the father of the self-esteem movement.” As I mentioned yesterday, Rand and Branden (he was 14 years her junior) felt good enough about themselves to have a sexual affair with
Ayn Rand—The Ugly Self-Esteem Movement Read More »
Yesterday I said there was some good in Ayn Rand’s work. Today we look at the bad. This blog post is longer and more sobering given the issues involved. Rand was an atheist and as such she failed to take in the whole of reality (taking in the whole of reality is a tenant of
There is much in Ayn Rand’s works that many find refreshing and it is no surprise that she’s the darling of many Libertarians and Republicans. Rand recognized what should be “duh!” to everyone: contradictory statements cannot be true at the same time and in the same way! As she put it: “A leaf cannot be
Ayn Rand: The Good Read More »
Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged arrives in theaters on April 15 (tax day) and I’m glad. I’ve read many of her books over the last two years1 and, frankly, there’s a lot to like. And dislike! But, I’m glad for the movie’s release because it gives Christians an opportunity to talk about several crucial issues. So,
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