A Challenge for this Seminarian

26Mar09

I’m reading Jonathan Edward’s Religious Affections, and I’m feeling convicted even before making it out of the first chapter. That religion which God requires, and will accept, does not consist in weak, dull, and lifeless wishes, raising us but a little above a state of indifference. – I.II.i If we be not in good earnest […]

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The AIG Bonuses

17Mar09

When the government hands out a pile of money, does anybody really expect the people in control of it not to take a cut? Or did somebody really think they’d just “do the right thing,” selflessly using it to make up for dubious actions in the past? Wait, maybe that’s not so selfless either.

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