Jonathan Haidht has examined how we view capitalism, and how liberal and conservative views describe it. Liberal Mythos: Capitalism is Exploitation Conservative Mythos: Capitalism is Liberation Of course, this paradox exists because both sides have some truth. However, the question is, if we try to...
As a moderate conservative, I am very disappointed in the success of Donald Trump in his election bid, and mourn the fact that a more moderate voice like John Kasich did not win the GOP primaries. Now I am stuck with the most unenviable of...
The problem with this whole North Carolina bathroom issue is that we have two populations we are trying to protect – transgenders, who suffer discrimination, and girls, who could be exposed to adult male nudity or worse. Where is the solution for both? This isn’t...
This post is part of a series In Part 1, we introduced the three levels of design, and went into detail regarding the first level of dynamics. The next, more concrete level of choices we have to make in designing a game or gamified software is...
Yesterday the National Review, published Christians, Don’t Fall for the ‘Compassion’ Trap. The article made some fine points about how progressive and liberal Christians, in an effort to show compassion on the lost transgender person, are harming both the truth and fellow believers whom they attack...
Most of us will never try to raise money for a project we are working on. I have not done it for my passion project (yet), but I do listen to many productivity podcasts (see my favorites here), and one is called The Pitch. In...
A while back, I put a long comment on a Buzzfeed article entitled 7 Shocking Bible Verses You Probably Won’t Hear In Church. Since then, it has become the most popular comment, so I thought I’d reproduce it and expand on it here. The graphics on...
I have a high regard for Calvinism, since it saved me from (hyper)-Arminianism, experienced by me as the Holiness movement. This movement is the child of Wesleyan Holiness, whose major error is the idea of Total Sanctification (that we can reach complete sanctification before death...
