Gene Veith, in Loving God With All Your Mind (pp. 150-151):[Jesus] tells us to love God with “all” our mind. In other words, everything the mind is capable of doing is to be devoted to loving God. It would seem then that if your mind can spin out complex mathematical calculations, you are to love God in mathematics. If your mind can plan a business, design a building, analyze a novel, understand a philosophical problem, or imagine a story, you are to love God in your planning, designing, analyzing, understanding, or imagining. When Jesus says “all” the mind, He is claiming every mental faculty … [Read more...] about Loving God With All Your Mind
Solitude, Leadership, and Multi-tasking
From a provocative lecture delivered to the plebe class at the United States Military Academy at West Point in October 2009 by William Deresiewicz. The speaker notes that many organizational leaders can be described as commonplace or ordinary: That’s really the great mystery about bureaucracies. Why is it so often that the best people are stuck in the middle and the people who are running things—the leaders—are the mediocrities? Because excellence isn’t usually what gets you up the greasy pole. What gets you up is a talent for maneuvering. Kissing up to the people above you, kicking down to … [Read more...] about Solitude, Leadership, and Multi-tasking
John Piper: When Should a Doctrinal Difference Make You Leave a Church?
Peggy Noonan on Obama Health Care
One more, and I think I'm done. Peggy Noonan, not a hyper-partisan to the say the least, writes a devastatingly clear-headed review of Obama's political failings with respect to health care legislation: In terms of policy, his essential mistake was to choose health-care expansion over health-care reform. This at the exact moment voters were growing more anxious about the cost and reach of government. The practical mistake was that he did not include or envelop congressional Republicans from the outset, but handed the bill's creation over to a Democratic Congress that was becoming a runaway … [Read more...] about Peggy Noonan on Obama Health Care
Dissecting the Real Cost of ObamaCare
It was somewhat convenient that I had to grade exams most of the day when President Obama held his "Health Care Summit." I found Rep. Paul Ryan to be exceptionally incisive and in command of the data. The WSJ published the transcript of his remarks (which left the President totally befuddled). An excerpt:The majority leader said the bill scores as reducing the deficit $131 billion over the next 10 years. First, a little bit about CBO. I work with them every single day—very good people, great professionals. They do their jobs well. But their job is to score what is placed in front of them. … [Read more...] about Dissecting the Real Cost of ObamaCare
Abortion and the President’s Health Care Plan
Charmaine Yoest, President and CEO of Americans United for Life, writes an eviscerating WSJ article about President Obama's mind-boggling pattern of inconsistency on the topic of abortion funding. She briefly traces the history of broken promises, then describes in detail how his current proposal misses the mark. Excerpt: The president's latest proposal mirrors legislation that has passed the Senate, which doesn't include a Hyde Amendment, and would inevitably establish abortion as a fundamental health-care service for the following reasons: • It would change existing law by allowing … [Read more...] about Abortion and the President’s Health Care Plan