Monthly Archives: February 2008

Richard Weaver on Social Security

From Ideas Have Consequences (1948). The notion that the state somehow bears responsibility for the indigence of the aged is not far removed from that demoralizing supposition that the state is somehow responsible for the criminality of the criminal. I … Continue reading

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Good article on church music

From Mere Comments, this article expresses a perspective that some segments of evangelicalism seem to have lost almost completely. The ensuing discussion is worth reading too. (I initially found it from Bob Bixby’s blog)

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Saturday fun

Last Saturday we hiked back up to the Cascades, a park in the Jefferson National Forest. We had been there in August, but with our recent precipitation, there was a lot more water coming over the falls and down the … Continue reading

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