Monthly Archives: November 2010

To Treat One Another As Humans

This entry is part 1 of 5 in the series To Treat One Another As Humans

The Manhattan Declaration hit the news again this week, thanks to an iPhone/iPad application supporting it which for a short while was in Apple’s app store. Apple pulled it out in response to an uproar raised by homosexual rights activists. A Manhattan Declaration blogger responded to the controversy here. This evening I’ve been reading gay-rights advocates’ …

November 28, 2010 – 10:00 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Life and Choices | Comments (2)

Ready for the Moment

Yesterday my college, Michigan State University, defeated Penn State to take a share of the Big Ten football championship. Way to go, MSU! It wasn’t all glory, though. They did it in spite of what my dad described as “the most idiotic play of the year,” possibly in all of college football. I won’t go …

November 28, 2010 – 9:11 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in The Faith | Comments Off

Ethics, Trust, and the Economy

Leaders in every sector can get away with all kinds of improprieties, but when they start messing with people’s money, then there’s trouble. Ethics matter. Ethical failures have contributed significantly to our current economic struggles. More evidence: a loss of trust. The Wall Street insider trading investigation may lead everyday investors — already rattled by …

November 27, 2010 – 7:41 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Ethics | Comments Off

“It’s as if the question is not even supposed to be asked”

It’s strange, but when I engage in some on-line confrontation about the morality of this or that sexual proclivity, and I challenge the interlocutor to defend the sexual revolution based upon the goodness or the nobility of the society it has led to, that challenge is never taken up. It’s as if the question is …

November 27, 2010 – 8:37 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Ethics | Comments Off

Christian Carnival CCCLV

Thank you, Barry Wallace, for hosting this week’s Christian Carnival.

November 25, 2010 – 7:30 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Miscellanea | Comments Off

Who said…

Who said this? it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favor. See the answer here. Who spoke of the following, in the context of Thanksgiving? the heart which is habitually insensible …

November 25, 2010 – 7:35 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in The Faith | Comments Off

“Dead Pilgrims Society”

Chuck Colson on Thanksgiving myths: Several children’s books about the Pilgrims are on bookstore shelves. But in a cold November blast of secularism, much of the spiritual component has been blown away. [From Dead Pilgrims Society]

November 25, 2010 – 7:25 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in The Faith | Comments Off

Thanksgiving Clichés Are Just Fine With Me

It’s Thanksgiving Day in America, a day that poses a bit of a problem for Christian bloggers: how to speak our thankfulness without saying what everyone else has already said. It is the challenge of avoiding the trite holiday message. I was mulling this over when it occurred to me how thankful I am for …

November 25, 2010 – 6:55 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in The Faith | Comments Off