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Jan 1, 2005

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The Naked Public Squares Revisited

Usually twenty years isn’t that long of a time as far as political history is concerned, but much has changed since this book first appeared. It was written in the nadir of late twentieth century secularism. Those who spent their teens and twenties in the anti-authoritarian social movements of the sixties were beginning to assume leadership positions in society.

Nov 1, 2004

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The Importance of Hans Rookmaaker

A turning point in my life came in 1979. A speaker at a meeting suggested I read Rookmaaker’s brand new book Art Needs No Justification. I bought it the next day. Though less than 100 pages, this book convinced me that more Christians needed to be involved in the arts and that included me.

Nov 1, 2004

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Learning from the Journey

In his presentations in the Work Research Foundation’s Leadership Is an Art program, Dr. Walter Wright regularly makes use of mountaineering stories. One, drawn from his own experiences on a Himalayan trek a few years back, is quite poignant in that some of the obstacles encountered make the objective of reaching the summit an open question.

Nov 1, 2004

Modernity and Differentiation

According to Pearse, the peculiarly modern civilization of the West bears a number of characteristics deemed threatening to pre-modern civilizations in other parts of the world. The emphasis in particular on the autonomous exercise of personal choice is highly dangerous to communities whose very survival is dependent upon the subordination of individual preferences to communal norms.

Nov 1, 2004

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Freedom of Association with Little Meaning

Abraham Kuyper exclaims: ‘Sin is such a tremendous power that it mocks all your dikes and sluices… it will again and again flood the field of human life with the waters of its passion and selfishness’ (The Problem of Poverty). Market mechanisms… are not sufficient to contain the effects of sin on the workplace and are in fact themselves corroded by sin.

Dialoguing with Terrorists and Liberals

Oct 1, 2004

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Dialoguing with Terrorists and Liberals

Imagine, if you will, a café somewhere between Amsterdam and Cairo circa 1964… two men sit, oblivious to their surroundings, engaged in a frank discussion about how to structure a society so that it reflects the will of God in all its particulars. Let’s call those men Herman and Sayyid, Herman Dooyeweerd and Sayyid Qutb.

Oct 1, 2004

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A Call for Thought Police

The church needs more well-trained Christians, clergy and lay, who are willing to play the role of doctrine cop in a way that protects the church from errant ideas that may cause greater long-term harm to the church even as they seem to be practically helpful. The church needs doctrine cops who don’t mind being theological thought police.