religion

The Land of the Living: Sunday Reflection – HotAir

This morning’s Gospel reading is Mark 9:2–10: Jesus took Peter, James, and John and led them up a high mountain apart by themselves. And he was transfigured before them, and his clothes became dazzling white, such as no fuller on earth could bleach them. Then Elijah appeared to them along with Moses, and they were […]

The Search for Meaning in the 1920s ~ The Imaginative Conservative

By the early decades of the twentieth century, at the very moment when physicists were dismantling formerly irrefutable truths about nature and the universe, science had become the foundation of the American faith in stability, order, and progress. Darwinian science had confirmed that the advent of the United States marked the apex of human evolution. […]

The Time of Fulfillment: Sunday Reflection – HotAir

This morning’s Gospel reading is Mark 1:12–15: The Spirit drove Jesus out into the desert, and he remained in the desert for forty days, tempted by Satan. He was among wild beasts, and the angels ministered to him.  After John had been arrested, Jesus came to Galilee proclaiming the gospel of God: “This is the […]

The Drudgery Report: Sunday Reflection – HotAir

This morning’s Gospel reading is Mark 1:29–39: On leaving the synagogue Jesus entered the house of Simon and Andrew with James and John. Simon’s mother-in-law lay sick with a fever. They immediately told him about her. He approached, grasped her hand, and helped her up. Then the fever left her and she waited on them. […]

From Darkness to Light: Sunday Reflection – HotAir

This morning’s Gospel reading is Mark 1:21–28: Then they came to Capernaum, and on the sabbath Jesus entered the synagogue and taught. The people were astonished at his teaching, for he taught them as one having authority and not as the scribes. In their synagogue was a man with an unclean spirit; he cried out, […]

Controversial Ideology, Religion, Poor Student Discipline Paving Way For Education Savings Accounts And Public School Exodus

Second in a series of reports Image Credit: Skyler Ewing / Pexels By David Seal [Special to The Tennessee Conservative] – Religious beliefs and gender-based ideology are contributing to the exodus. When it comes to religion, parents are generally divided between two groups, the group that wants Christian values and organized prayer back in classrooms, […]

Going All In: Sunday Reflection – HotAir

This morning’s Gospel reading is Mark 1:14–20: After John had been arrested, Jesus came to Galilee proclaiming the gospel of God: “This is the time of fulfillment. The kingdom of God is at hand. Repent, and believe in the gospel.” As he passed by the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and his brother Andrew […]

Blind Benjamin Franklin ~ The Imaginative Conservative

Even today, many Americans take an intentionally anti-intellectual stance, agreeing with the rationalists that faith and reason are incompatible. Blind Benjamin Franklin is father to them all. Apart from his rejection of wigs and the incident with the kite, the key and the lightning bolt, I’m afraid I have never been impressed or attracted to […]