Category · 3 posts

Government

1. Christian Walls and BridgesMay 1, 2024

   And another post from www.permanentfixes.com which seems to have a faith slant. Christian Walls and Bridges…

2. Commitment to Social Spending: More Than a TitheOctober 28, 2013

   Sometimes it helps to provide some historical context for currently observed phenomena. The chart below shows total federal, state, and local social benefit spending, as a percent of GDP, for the United States since 1960, the 25th anniversary of Social Security and five years before Medicare and Lyndon Johnson’s “War on Poverty” which featured “Guns…

3. Church Labels and Modifiers: Liberal, Conservative, Etc.July 16, 2012

   A Ross Douthat column in the July 14, 2012, NYT is titled, “Can Liberal Christianity Be Saved?” It includes interesting data on trends in membership of the Episcopal Church and how those trends may be related to shifting positions on theological and social issues. The bottom line is that, while there is no proof of…