Who would have thought? (And this is before the 9-11 bump that Bush got.) From: Real Clear Politics … [Read more...] about Obama & Bush Approval – 7 Months In
Archives for 2009
Update on Unemployed Alumnus Who Sued Her College
I previously wrote on the story of Trina Thompson, 27, who, three months after graduating, sued Monroe College over her inability to land employment. Apparently, agencies big and small have been heaping scorn on Thompson. But Mark Gimein, an author for Slate magazine, has now published an articulate defense of Thompson, lambasting the methods and marketing of Monroe College. His article has also been picked up by New York magazine. Gimein writes: The story of Thompson's suit isn't a one-liner about a grad too naive to know that graduating from college doesn't guarantee a job. It's a story … [Read more...] about Update on Unemployed Alumnus Who Sued Her College
Personal Responsibility and Public Policy
A good word from Thomas Sowell here on personal responsibility and its frequent neglect in discussions of societal ills. My favorite clip (with classes about to start up again): Students are discussed largely as passive recipients of good or bad education. But education is not something that can be given to anybody. It is something that students either acquire or fail to acquire. Read the whole thing. Thomas Sowell is the author of the recent outstanding book The Housing Boom and Bust which I finished on vacation this summer. If you want a penetrating, 150-page look at the forces that … [Read more...] about Personal Responsibility and Public Policy
Dual Citizens – Jason Stellman
Speaking of the Two Kingdom Theology and Neo-Kuyperian discussion, this new book, Dual Citizens: Worship and Life between the Already and the Not Yet, probably contains some extended reflection from the Two Kingdom perspective. The author is the Rev. Jason J. Stellman, a graduate of Westminster Seminary California. Rev. Stellman is ordained by the Pacific Northwest Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church in America and is the planting pastor of Exile Presbyterian Church in the Seattle, WA area. The endorsements: "I do not know of a book quite like this one. It is a devotional theology of the … [Read more...] about Dual Citizens – Jason Stellman
Healed For Holiness – John Piper
Piper Clarifies Tornado Remarks
John Piper clarified his remarks on the tornado that ripped through Minneapolis, MN while the ELCA was having their national convention (during which they voted to allow for people in "publicly accountable, lifelong, monogamous, same-gender relationships to serve as rostered leaders of this church"). In a sense, he reiterated his remarks, which many have misunderstood. Piper notes:God’s message to me in my tornado [prostate cancer] was essentially the same as to the ELCA in theirs. My tornado was "a gentle but firm warning to me and all of us: Turn from every approval of sin in your life. … [Read more...] about Piper Clarifies Tornado Remarks