Ethics and Culture is a blog by Andrew J. Spencer. (@SpenceSpencer01)
The Soviet Century is the sort of volume that pairs well with Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago. Not only does it have the heft of Russian literature, but it also fills in much of the background that Solzhenitsyn describes. While The Gulag Archipelago gives a jarring portrait of life within the prison, The Soviet Union fills in many of the puzzle pieces around that massive literary work.
Read MoreThe best thing about the SBC annual meeting is hearing people who do ministry much differently than I ever would sharing about how God is using them. It’s a beautiful thing.
Read MoreThe power of slogans helps explain why we should not treat casual abortion supporters as if they are mass murderers. Most of them have given very little thought to the brutality of abortion, because slogans have prevented the need to think. As Milton Mayer shows in They Thought They Were Free, people can do some terrible things under the cover of busyness, and cognitive distance slogans provide.
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