Society
Items on national and international social issues and reforms
Moore’s Law, Faith, and Truth
Thu 25 Mar 2010 • Responses: 3 • by Al Sikes
What force can counter the pressure of rapid social change?
Trinity Forum Chairman Al Sikes reflects on the rapid social changes brought about by cheap computing power and suggests that we need a countervailing force.
Faith, on the evidence
Thu 07 May 2009 • Responses: 1 • by Al Sikes
Confronting the unknown
Trinity Forum Chairman Al Sikes reflects on faith and evidence.
Choosing a New Way
Mon 13 Apr 2009 • Responses: 1 • by Al Sikes
The President’s perilous moment
Trinity Forum Chairman Al Sikes looks at the challenge of leadership that the President faces given current partisanship.
Sunday Mornings
Thu 19 Feb 2009 by Al Sikes
Save your suspension of disbelief for novels and the theater
Trinity Forum Chairman Al Sikes reflects on two forums that are active on Sunday.
Citizens of the World Unite?
Wed 11 Feb 2009 • Responses: 1 • by Pete Peterson
Defending Identity: Its Indispensable Role in Protecting Democracy by Natan Sharansky (New York: PublicAffairs, 2008), 304 pages.
Seed Corn and Spiritual Capital
Thu 05 Feb 2009 by John Seel
Remembering the Prerequisites to Wealth
John Seel offers a review essay on Spiritual Enterprise: Doing Virtuous Business by Theodore Roosevelt Malloch, which speaks to the root of the world economic crisis.
A Teaching Moment
Mon 08 Dec 2008 • Responses: 1 • by Al Sikes
A framework of calling and character
Trinity Forum Chairman Al Sikes looks at the current economic crisis as an opportunity to reanimate the timeless wisdom of Solomon for our culture.
How Does Culture Change?
Thu 13 Nov 2008 • Responses: 8 • by John Seel
The Hunter Thesis
John Seel presents James Davison Hunter’s emerging thesis on cultural change. The right strategies start with a right understanding of how culture is made, and changes. It starts with recognizing the difference between Esperanto and E*TRADE.
A Task Before Him
Wed 05 Nov 2008 by Al Sikes
Formidable Challenges, but Joined by Lincoln’s Legacy
Trinity Forum Chairman Al Sikes reflects on the legacy and challenges facing the new President-Elect.
Obama’s Cult of Personality
Tue 14 Oct 2008 • Responses: 6 • by David Aikman
The U.S. presidential election campaign has certainly become more negative recently, with McCain’s side seeking to paint Obama as a man with past ties to dangerous American radicals and a propensity to increase taxes. Obama has responded with sharp attacks on McCain’s policy, painting him as a man who is “out of touch” with ordinary American concerns and in the pocket of big oil companies. Sarah Palin, McCain’s vice-presidential running mate and other Republican supporters have tried to raise doubts about Obama’s reliability, focusing on his ties to his pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright and connections with unrepentant American terrorist William Ayers. McCain, to be fair, has distanced himself from some of his more scare-mongering supporters. He has recently declared Obama to be “a decent man and a person you do not have to be scared of as president of the United States.”
Let us hope McCain is right, and that if Obama wins, he will not be an extremist of any kind and will govern wisely and modestly.
