Many conservatives seem to think the biggest battle in our culture is over which values we should embrace. They argue for "family" values or "Judeo-Christian" values, as opposed to "progressive" values or even "extremist"...
The Don Johnson Show, 7-30-05 Stories from England, Australia and Canada show how governments are primed to take over control and banish free exercise of religion. Our Jonathan Swift Award goes to Michael Read, who argues that he caused his mother to be made fun of,...
Tony Blankley has a really interesting column today about what technology is doing to the abortion debate.
The latest winner of our Jonathan Swift Award for most ridiculous pro-abortion argument of the week goes to David Barash. He argues in an LA Times Op-ed that since conception is a gradual process, it is impossible to pinpoint a moment when a human soul might be...
The Don Johnson Show, 7-23-05 We analyze Tim Lott’s assertion that the suicide bombers are to be admired in some ways because they have something that the West simply can’t offer: meaning in life. This weeks Jonathan Swift Award for Ridiculous Pro-Abortion...
As an addendum to the previous post, (read that first if you haven’t yet), I submit this for your consideration: If people use entertainment primarily as a means to dull the pain and drudgery of their meaningless, empty lives, – to forget about how...
Tim Lott offers a devastatingly accurate picture of what drives Muslim suicide bombers and the difference between them and their typical Western contemporaries: The Muslims have lives with meaning.The meaning said this: my life is not futile and my death is not final....
The fact that the two biggest hot buttons in the culture are homosexuality and abortion shows that t our biggest issue is really sex. Homosexuality and abortion are about not much more than than desire to have sex whenever, however and with whomever one wants. (Except...
Thank God we have the LA Times to explain to the rest of us how to properly interpret the Bible. In a op-ed entitled “What the Bible really says about gays”, columnist Michael McGough asserts that one key to using scripture in support of homosexuality is to understand...
I just finished Peter Kreeft’s excellent little book, How to Win the Culture War and I highly recommend it. Here is a taste (and a nice addition to this post and this post by my friend Greg over at Doulos): Perhaps the popular conception of saints is...
The Don Johnson Show, 7-16-05 With three major evangelistic events occurring at the same time this weekend in Southern California along with Billy Graham’s announcement that his crusade in New York a few weeks back would be his last, we discuss the strengths and...
I’m back from Canada and will resume blogging next week. In the mean time, I ran across this article while trying to wade through my email box and thought is was worth a post. Churches tend to sell themselves as "families" or "communities" to...
I suggested on last Saturday’s radio show that Islam gets the "kid-glove" treatment around the world. People seem intent on giving Islam unfair and hypocritical favorable treatment within the marketplace of ideas. Today Chuck Colson presents another...
The Don Johnson Show, 6-25-05 From ridiculous “hate-crime” laws in Australia and Britain, to fake documentaries in America, truth seeking and open debate are on the way out. This week’s Jonathan Swift Award goes to the Russians who are extracting...
This week’s Jonathan Swift award for most insane pro-abortion argument goes to the Russians who are extracting stem cells from the bodies of aborted babies in order to inject them into their own bodies so that they will look younger. The craze has sparked a...
Today’s excellent Christianity Today editorial about the church and politics includes these two great quotes: Nearly a quarter of a century ago, just as the Religious Right was blossoming, Richard John Neuhaus put it this way: "Jesus Christ is Lord. That is...
Quote of the day: "The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less." – Vaclav Havel
I haven’t read it it, but Chuck Colson is recommending Never Let Me Go, a fictional story about cloning, as being in the tradition of Jonathan Swift’s A Modest Proposal. I’m guessing it is well worth checking out.
PETA always said that animals should be treated like humans. Unfortunately for the animals under PETA’s "care", that apparently means imposing the same quality of life ethic advocated by the likes of Henry Morgentaler: better to be dead than to live...
Gene Edward Veith has written a great commentary on a study that I’ve discussed on the radio show and quoted recently in a sermon ("The Gospel According to John") about the spiritual lives of American youth.After interviewing over 3,000 teenagers, the...
The Don Johnson Show, 6-18-05 These statistics show just how important fathers really are. We discuss how this supports a Christian worldview. We tackle the argument that the Christian view of a loving father God is just a wish-fulfillment fantasy made up by humans...
Jonathan Swift would be very proud of Henry Morgentaler.
One of the clearest evidences for the truth of a Christian worldview is that it simply works the best. Christianity says men and women were created to come together and raise a family as one. If you don’t do that, things don’t operate as they should. Not...
Diana West has some very interesting thoughts on what the military’s code of conduct towards the Koran really says to the Islamists.
The Don Johnson Show, 6-11-05 The Bible Literacy Project is attempting to have the Bible brought back into public schools not as a religious or sacred document but simply as literature. We debate this idea and point out the weakness in our culture’s current...
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