In the margin of a public speaker’s manuscript was the notation: “Weak point. Shout.” Such is the rhetoric of those who place emotion over logic and make policy through gangs rather than parliaments. In Athens some 2,400 years ago, Aristophanes described a demagogue as having “a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, cross-grained nature and the language […]
How the Johnson Amendment quiets the pulpit Source: Pastors Without Politics
The Public Square An election year does strange things to people. For instance, Father John . . . . Source: Against Christian Politics by Richard John Neuhaus | Articles | First Things
There are many things in our government that are “broken,” but our refugee vetting system isn’t one of them. We needn’t, and therefore we shouldn’t, shut out refugees who are fleeing terrorism in places such as Syria and Iraq, even temporarily. Because it isn’t necessary to do it, it is, in my opinion, necessary not […]
