In 1951 C. S. Lewis received a letter from Prime Minister Winston Churchill. In it, Churchill offered to recommend him for a C.B.E. (Commander of the British Empire). The C.B.E. is one class in the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, a chivalric order established to recognize gallantry and service to the Empire, and …
Bonhoeffer: A Postmortem Interview (Part 3 of 4)
Barney: Welcome back to the show, Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Author, pastor, activist, and martyr. Bonhoeffer: Thank you. Glad to be here. Barney: We left our discussion last week comparing your historical context with our hysterical one––hysterical, not in the sense of humorous, but as in bizarre, even manic. Everyday we 21st Century Americans wake up to some new whacky thing our president …
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What Does a Thomas Kinkade Painting Have to do With the DHS?
The family foundation of the late Thomas Kinkade demanded that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) stop posting his art on social media. According to the family, the government agency misused “Morning Pledge”—which depicts children holding hands to hearts as an American flag is raised—“to promote division and xenophobia.” DHS posted the image on X …
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What’s This About the “Beauty of God”? (Psalm 90:17)
I mentioned in previous posts that having turned seventy this year I’m feeling every pain and taking all the pills to prove it. We septuagenarians and beyond may whine and complain, but one thing we can be thankful for is the diminishing struggle against peer pressure! In my case, seventy is the new eighty and …
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Why I loved Tim Keller
One of the many reasons I loved Tim Keller was that he pastored mostly wealthy Manhattans and yet displayed such courage over the years to say things like the following, based on Mary's song in Luke 1:52-53 “He has put down the mighty from their thrones, and exalted the lowly. He has filled the hungry …
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