Why President Trump Would Be A Bigger Disaster Than Hillary
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“For conservatives, supporting Trump would mean facilitating their own destruction.”
"[T]his declaration focuses on a number of issues that the writers believe need to be reaffirmed in our current cultural context."
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Kevin Bauder, Scott Aniol, Mike Riley, et. al. … New Book—A Conservative Christian Declaration
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Christian Right Not Responsible for People Leaving Church, Study Finds
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“Differences and disagreements at the congregational level are more likely to drive people away from the Church, they conclude.” CPost
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A Christian Alternative to Unicorn Governance
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“The centuries-long debate between conservatives and progressives about governance, argues Michael Munger, is essentially a disagreement about a simple concept: whether the State is a unicorn.”
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CPAC reverses decision, will not allow atheist group at conservative conference
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“David Silverman, president of American Atheists, tells CNN that a groundswell of opposition from high-ranking members of CPAC compelled the group to pull the invite.” CNN
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"The conservative vision for America is not an Ayn Rand novel," he said, "It's a Norman Rockwell painting."
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“Lee was speaking at the Antipoverty Forum hosted by The Heritage Foundation” Renewed Conservative Movement Should Lead New War on Poverty, Sen. Mike Lee Says
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"In today’s world, conservatives have often conserved more of the best of classical liberalism than liberals have."
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“Hayek wanted to expose the collectivist ideals which threatened freedom.”
The Road to Serfdom by F. A. Hayek and A Humane Economy by Wilhelm Röpke
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IRS Admits Targeting Conservative Groups; White House Not to Blame, Says Jay Carney
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“Lerner admitted the IRS ‘made some mistakes,’ and apologized for targeting the Tea Party groups.”
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Reflections on Republocrat: The Trouble with Capitalism
Capitalism—should Christians endorse it with enthusiasm? Accept it with reservations? Utterly reject it? Just ignore it? Questions like these are at the heart of the fourth chapter of Carl Trueman’s book Repuplocrat: Confessions of a Liberal Conservative.
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This chapter (“Living Life to the Max”) is book’s weakest so far. Key terms shift in meaning, the problems under attack lack the kind of concrete examples found in other chapters, claims seem contradictory at times, and the thesis is less clear.
The thrust of the chapter seems to be that although capitalism is the best economic system the world has yet seen, and we have no idea what would be better, it’s attendant ills are such that we need to make sure we’re sufficiently critical of it.
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Reflections on Republocrat: A Serialized Book Review, Part 1
[amazon 1596381833 thumbnail] The name “Carl Trueman” didn’t mean a whole lot to me until recently. For some time, the name popped up often in blog-post links folks would email me. Sometimes something at the “Reformation 21” blog would catch my eye and turn out to be Trueman’s work.
Then a few months ago he began to really get my attention—in his response to the Elephant Room 2 confusion as well as subsequent insightful evaluations of the state of evangelicalism in general.
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