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Dec 24, 2024 | 
rlo.acton.org | Dylan Pahman
In the opening track to their now-classic 1983 album, War, Irish rock band U2 sang about “Sunday Bloody Sunday.” I can’t believe the news today Oh, I can’t close my eyes and make it go away … Broken bottles under children’s feet Bodies strewn across the dead-end street But I won’t heed the battle call It puts my back up, puts my back up against the wall Bono was supposedly singing about the “Bloody Sunday” of January 20, 1972, in which 26 unarmed protesters were shot by British troops in...
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Aug 22, 2024 | 
rlo.acton.org | Dylan Pahman
In a campaign speech in North Carolina last Friday, Vice President Kamala Harris detailed her plan for “creating opportunities for the middle class that advance their economic security, stability, and dignity.” That’s a great promise. All Americans—not just the middle class but the poor, too—need more opportunities, more security, more stability, and greater respect for their dignity.
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Jul 12, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | David R. Bunch |Dylan Pahman |Isaac Willour |David Goldman
Isaac Asimov believed that science fiction is more of a setting than a genre. He sought to prove this thesis in his works—The Caves of Steel, for example, is a murder mystery. While there’s nothing original about pointing to science fiction’s potential as a means for political philosophy, one critically acclaimed but popularly obscure author deserves more attention from those looking to use fiction as a framework for exploring freedom, morality, and meaning. David R.
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Jul 4, 2024 | 
fusionaier.org | Dylan Pahman
July 4, 2024 By Dylan Pahman In the United States, we date our nation’s beginning to the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, which has served as a national creed enshrining distinctly liberal principles in our national consciousness.
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Jun 21, 2024 | 
rlo.acton.org | Dylan Pahman
Writing on June 16 at Current, John Fea tells a story that’s becoming too familiar in Christian higher education:Last Spring, ten Cornerstone faculty … either left Cornerstone or were forced out by the administration. This is the same administration … that received a 42-6 vote of no confidence by the faculty in October 2021. …Last week, Cornerstone made more cuts. The humanities and music programs were eliminated. Seven tenured faculty were fired.
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Feb 14, 2024 | 
rlo.acton.org | Dylan Pahman
In his 2009 encyclical, Caritas in Veritate, Pope Benedict XVI highlighted the inadequacy of a social imaginary that includes only the market and the state:The exclusively binary model of market-plus-State is corrosive of society, while economic forms based on solidarity, which find their natural home in civil society without being restricted to it, build up society. The market of gratuitousness does not exist, and attitudes of gratuitousness cannot be established by law.
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Feb 11, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | Rachel Ferguson |Dylan Pahman |Samuel Benson |Hannah Long
Extending the arm of the state is the wrong way to shape obedient hearts. By and Published February 11, 2024 • Updated February 12, 2024 Last month Oklahoma state Sen. Dusty Deevers, a pastor and self-identified Christian nationalist, filed bills to legally prohibit sexting outside of marriage and forbid “no-fault” divorce.
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Jan 26, 2024 | 
marketsandmorality.com | Dylan Pahman
Abstract In his 2009 encyclical Caritas in Veritate, Pope Benedict XVI highlighted the inadequacy of a social imaginary that only includes the market and the state:The exclusively binary model of market-plus-State is corrosive of society, while economic forms based on solidarity, which find their natural home in civil society without being restricted to it, build up society. The market of gratuitousness does not exist, and attitudes of gratuitousness cannot be established by law.
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Dec 25, 2023 | 
rlo.acton.org | Dylan Pahman
As we deck the halls with boughs of holly this year, read the story of Christ’s Nativity, sing hymns and carols, exchange gifts, and light our homes in increasingly irrational competition verging on mutually assured destruction with our neighbors, we must not lose sight of the real “reason for the season”: Santa’s victory over the pagan goddess Artemis. Really. Just to be clear, I am aware that Jesus is what Christmas is all about.
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Nov 23, 2023 | 
rlo.acton.org | Dylan Pahman
Each night, when it’s my turn to tuck in my littlest kids—Erin (5) and Callaghan (3) … and sometimes Aidan (6)—we say the same traditional prayers together: the “Our Father,” the “Axion Estin,” and the Creed. After the Creed, I ask them, “What are you thankful for tonight?” and “Who should we pray for tonight?”They’re always thankful for their mom. They’re usually thankful for each other. Sometimes they’re thankful for me.
