The Fleming Foundation Cultural Commentary
Wednesday’s Child: Sicilian Defense 5
What manly China has largely succeeded at, however, is not so much the quelling of the plague as pulling the wool over Western eyes with regard to the quelling of the plague. Last week China claimed that 3,333 people had died of the virus.
Ask Mr. Autodidact: Secular Catechism
My question is about your thoughts on what Tim Keller has described as the Catechism of Secularism. These beliefs have so completely dominated our culture that they are like the air we breathe.
God Rather Than Men
God has ordained civil government as an institution of justice in our present world. He also instituted the church as a ministry of grace. The two were meant to compliment and support each other but, in our fallen world, there are times (increasingly in the United States) when they come into conflict and, ultimately, collide with each other.
Andy Vaught Rediscovers America, Part One
Andy Vaught, TFF’s crack reporter, has been traveling across America in his quest to find out what makes Americans tick. In this first column of a series, Andy recounts his adventures in a Midwestern supermarket in the midst of a plaguge “of Biblical proportions.”
The Athenian Plague, Part II
It was the social and moral dimension of the pestilence that most attracted the analytical mind of Thucydides. Some perished through want of attention, while others, falling into despair, gave up the fight.
End of March Birthdays
Wilhelm Roentgen, Leonard Nimoy, Gorky, Cy Young, Vincent Van Gogh, Eric Clapton, Mehmed II the Conqueror, Herb Alpert, Edward Fitzgerald
Reflections on Plagues by James Patrick
Disease and sickness, whether forestalled temporarily or not, are the heralds of death, which is both a divine punishment, given so that rebel mankind will not live forever, making up good and evil for himself, eternal beings given to evil, and at the same time death is Satan’s masterpiece.
