Feb
22
2012
Worth a Look 2.22.12
I once heard Frederica Mathewes-Green say that every child born after 1973 was a “survivor.” That was the year that Roe v. Wade declared “open season” on the contents of the womb. But it appears the license to hunt Bambi was not enough. Now the government is making sure you have a rifle.
Christopher Hitchens’ take on the “charming, sinister” G. K. Chesterton:
The verdict one must pass on GKC, then, is that when he was charming, he was also deeply unserious and frivolous (as with the pub revolution to set off the Distributist revolution); when he was apparently serious, he was really quite sinister (as in calling Nazism a form of Protestant heresy and Jews a species of conspicuous foreigner in England); and when he was posing as a theologian, he was doing little more than ventriloquizing John Henry Newman at his most “dogmatic.” For the time and hour in which he lived, “Chestertonianism” came to represent a minor but still important failure to meet a distinct moral challenge.
There are two types of people in the world: those with Amazon Prime and those without. How you think about consumption, commerce and your personal time is radically different depending on if you’ve join the cult — yet. And to be clear, Prime is a cult you will be joining.
Founders of Pensacola Christian College Retire after 31 Years:
Dr. Arlin Horton and his wife, Rebekah, the devoted couple who built Pensacola Christian College, Pensacola Christian Academy and a Christian publishing company into national powerhouses in religious education as well as one of the area’s most potent economic forces, will retire at the end of the school year.