Pray for China
In a little over a week, I will be heading to China for three weeks on a mission trip with a few other people from my school. I would appreciate your prayers now and during those three weeks, especially because China is not exactly the most friendly country in the world toward Christianity. In my [...]
Incentivize, Don’t Nationalize
Steven A. Burd, the CEO of Safeway, wrote a brilliant editorial in today’s Wall Street Journal on how his company have cut almost 40% of health care costs, compared to the national average over the past few years. The solution? They bill health insurance premiums on the basis of behavior, following the auto insurance industry, [...]
Once for All
I was driving home from a wedding in Tennessee yesterday morning, and so I listened to a sermon on the radio in hopes of having some kind of substitute (however insufficient) for missing church. I found a couple that I had no interest in listening to beyond the first few sentences, and then I found [...]
Nebraska Football and SCOTUS
For lighter news about the Supreme Court of the United States, you should read this article about Clarence Thomas and his plane ride with a Nebraska Cornhusker football recruit if you haven’t already.
New Angle on Tiananmen Square Tank Man
Yesterday was the 20th anniversary of the famous Tiananmen Square Protests, from which came this picture: Interestingly, a new photograph has surfaced which captures the same man from a different angle: You can see the man in the top left of the photograph, between the two trees. This is a pretty cool photograph, especially given [...]
Garbage Island
The other night, I introduced my wife to one of my favorite movies, Ladykillers. (Allison did not like it, by the way.) I have seen it many times before, but I have never heard/understood/appreciated this line from the sermon at Marva’s church, which you might remember better from his “I smite! You smite! He smites! [...]
Different Regiments of the Same Army
I have been thoroughly enjoying Perry Miller’s The Life of the Mind in America, which presents a highly complex picture of early American Christianity. One of the interesting issues he describes is the unique way in which Christians in America achieved a form of unity. On the one hand, Miller credits the absence of an [...]
Calvinism in China
Apparently, the Chinese Christian Church is becoming increasingly Reformed: Although Calvinism is shrinking in western Europe and North America, it is experiencing an extraordinary success in China. I spent some time on Monday talking to the Rev May Tan, from Singapore, where the overseas Chinese community has close links with mainland China. The story she [...]
