Archive for the ‘Heritage & History’ Category

Rural Studies and the Death of Main Street

The small towns of America’s heartland are becoming an endangered species, argue researchers Patrick J. Carr and Maria J. Kefalas in Hollowing Out the Middle: The Rural Brain Drain and What It Means for America—a lengthy title for a slim and troubling ethnography. In a nation where urban studies...

January 6th, 2010 | Book Reviews, Culture, Domestic Policy, Education, Family Issues, Heritage & History | Read More

Restoring the Nation

Taking a break from our ongoing discussion of the first principles of government, I wanted to reflect on the goals that we should have as the citizens, and more specifically the church, within this nation. Regardless of your politics, it is important to recognize this truth: no earthly government will...

April 27th, 2009 | Heritage & History | Read More

Scriptorium Daily

• Happy Birthday, Rudolf Stier March 17, 2010
  Today (March 17) Rudolf Ewald Stier (1800 - 1862) was born. Don’t feel bad if you’ve never heard of him, he is little noted nor much remembered these days. Partly because he was so awesome that our puny age cannot handle his sheer awesomeness. Stier did a lot of interesting things as a conservative Lutheran churchman [...] […]
  Fred Sanders
• 101 things to do in Torrey before you graduate March 16, 2010
  This week, The Chimes (the Biola newspaper) published this article, “101 Things to Do Before You Graduate from Biola” and I’ve seen many people on Facebook commenting on how many they’ve accomplished. As “imitation is the sincerest form of flattery,” below is the Torrey version of that list. Some of the below are [...] […]
  Allen Yeh