Painting without a license could soon be illegal in Minnesota
Government growth is like the slowly rising temperature that eventually boils the frog in the pot alive – so long as the red tape grows only bit by small bit, we don’t really protest.
Here then, is a cup of cold water (or some sharp scissors if we’re going with the tape metaphor) to shake things up and highlight how the government will regulate everything if we give them the chance. Christians should lead the resistance to growing government, since we understand that God didn’t entrust our leaders with the responsibility of managing every aspect of citizens’ lives. And we know that limited fallible human beings aren’t up to the enormity of that task.
3 things a Christian should consider before serving in the military
This short piece has an American focus but offers thoughts for Canadians to consider too. Since it was written in 2017, both nations’ militaries have taken an ideological turn, so more could be said, which Aaron Renn does here.
Today’s music really is angrier, more egocentric
A new study says it isn’t just your imagination, Mom and Dad; song lyrics really are getting more repetitive, “me” and “mine” are popping up more often, and the tone of the lyrics has gotten angrier over the last 40 years.
We’re all Christian Nationalists now
I prefer the term “Christian patriotism” to “Christian Nationalism” due to the latter’s many conflicting definitions. But, as Larry Ball suggests, if we run with the definition of Christian Nationalism that the secular media is increasingly using – as Christians who think our rights come, not from the State, but from God Himself – then we are all Christian Nationalists now.
What are the reasons disability exists? (10-minute read)
AJ was struck with a progressive neurological disability that put him in a wheelchair as a young man. He had questions for God… and he went to Scripture to hear what God had to say.
Were the Greek gods real?
Douglas Wilson makes things clear with this “yes and no” answer.
