Laissez-Faire Must Not Be Lazy but Must Strive to Promote Fairness
Hunter Baker, evangelical economist (with a new Crossway book coming out soon), made some helpful points in this little blog article. His main point is that conservatives shouldn't be so pro-capitalist that they overlook the effects of the Fall in the market. Here's an excerpt: Without Christ this is a world in which the strong will abuse the weak, the rich ignore or exploit the poor, and those with authority seek advantages for themselves as they exercise their power. We know these things...
R. C. Trench Vs. Lexicographical Prescriptivism (i.e., CONTROVERSY!)
I've finally gotten to a book I've had on my mental list ever since Dr. Randy Leedy, my Advanced Greek Grammar teacher, recommended it to his class some years ago: Dictionaries: The Art and Craft of Lexicography. Sidney Landau is so far weaving a fascinating account of the making—and the history of the making—of dictionaries. Let me share one anecdote: R. C. Trench, author of the classic (but linguistically suspect) Synonyms of the New Testament, was actually the catalyst for the production of...
Get a Free ESV for your iPod Touch
If you have an iPod Touch, you can now get the ESV on it for free by following these steps: 1. Set up a Kindle account. 2. "Buy" the ESV for $0.00 (thanks, Crossway!). 3. Get the Kindle app in the iTunes store (thanks, Amazon!). 4. Read away! You can sync your bookmarks easily between your Kindle and your Touch, or you can just enjoy the buying power of Kindle on an even more convenient device.
Fish on Faith and Finance
Always provocative. Stanley Fish. ...in another popular Christian discourse, there is no way out of debt, and bankruptcy is the condition we are in from the moment of birth. This is a Calvinist discourse in which the language of money is allegorized. The debt we owe is owed to the God who made us in his image, an image defiled and corrupted by Adam and Eve, whose heirs in sin we all are. We may think that this unhappy inheritance could be overlain and covered by a succession of good deeds, but...
FIRST THINGS: On the Square » Blog Archive » Just Give It Up
First Things will never be the same without Richard Neuhaus. His proto-blog at the end of every issue provided great insight—and, admittedly, some juicy quotes about Catholic doctrine for those of us who still oppose it. But here's an excerpt from a recent First Things blog article that I have to take a little exception to (though I invite interaction from Touchstone's David Mills): Our eldest, then about two years old, one day announced “I want . . .” but did not finish the sentence. My wife...