The Center for Vision & Values
Monday, May 17, 2021
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Center for Vision & Values
on May 17, 2021 at 11:26 am
President Joe Biden’s omission of the word God from his National Day of Prayer proclamation last week has evoked a firestorm of protest. Christian Broadcasting Network commentator David Brody, evangelist…...
Wednesday, May 12, 2021
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Center for Vision & Values
on May 12, 2021 at 07:48 am
You may remember the big news back in November 2018 about the birth of two Chinese baby girls who were born with the gene-edited trait for Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)…...
Monday, May 03, 2021
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Center for Vision & Values
on May 3, 2021 at 10:26 am
Editor’s note: This article first appeared in Crisis Magazine. “The early church was a socialist church.” So said Rev. Raphael Warnock in 2016, four years before the citizens…...
Friday, April 30, 2021
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Center for Vision & Values
on April 30, 2021 at 08:39 am
Six months ago, the idea of expanding the size of the U.S. Supreme Court was side-stepped by presidential candidate Joe Biden, and the issue seemed to wane. But now, “court…...
Thursday, April 29, 2021
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Center for Vision & Values
on April 29, 2021 at 09:12 am
We live in an age where science has provided a lot of benefits for humanity. When we think about it, few of us would rather live in a 15th century…...
Tuesday, April 27, 2021
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Center for Vision & Values
on April 27, 2021 at 08:08 am
During a heated 1990 U.S. Senate race in North Carolina between the Republican incumbent Jesse Helms and Democratic challenger Harvey Gantt, basketball superstar and North Carolina native Michael Jordan was…...
Thursday, April 22, 2021
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Center for Vision & Values
on April 22, 2021 at 09:44 am
Over the course of 2020, the previously minor social media application Parler rose to national prominence. The site served as a smaller, right-leaning mirror to Twitter, attracting an audience that…...
Wednesday, April 14, 2021
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Center for Vision & Values
on April 14, 2021 at 07:05 am
Hedge funds are in the news again. (I wrote about the Melvin Capital hedge fund blow-up a couple of months ago.) A firm named Archegos Capital Management “blew up” (to…...
Monday, April 12, 2021
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Center for Vision & Values
on April 12, 2021 at 08:02 am
In the late 1980s, as a pre-med major at the University of Pittsburgh, I pulled many all-nighters at Scaife Hall at Pitt’s School of Medicine. My friend Dirk and I…...
Friday, April 02, 2021
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Center for Vision & Values
on April 2, 2021 at 09:09 am
Editor’s note: A version of this article first appeared in The American Spectator. For Christians, Holy Week truly is the most holy week of the year. Or at least it…...
Friday, March 26, 2021
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Center for Vision & Values
on March 26, 2021 at 07:26 am
I was saddened to hear of the death, at age 90, of Rev. Dr. John C. Polkinghorne. An incredibly distinguished scholar, he held so many titles that it was impossible…...
Wednesday, March 24, 2021
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Center for Vision & Values
on March 24, 2021 at 08:24 am
Chike Uzuegbunam was a student at Georgia Gwinnett College, a public institution in Lawrenceville, Georgia, when he decided to witness about his Christian faith to fellow students on campus. He…...
Tuesday, March 02, 2021
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Center for Vision & Values
on March 2, 2021 at 09:02 am
On February 14, 2021, the world quietly lost one of the most intriguing, enduring figures of the Cold War. He was Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa, the highest-ranking Soviet Bloc…...
Thursday, February 18, 2021
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Center for Vision & Values
on February 18, 2021 at 10:15 am
Christian celebrity culture is toxic. And it has terrible long-term effects. Ravi Zacharias was the head of an international, $40-million-a-year apologetics ministry devoted to explaining and justifying Christianity to a…...
Friday, February 05, 2021
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Center for Vision & Values
on February 5, 2021 at 10:23 am
The average price of a college education is $140,000. Very few people have the resources to cover that cost, so they must turn to student loans to make attending college…...
Thursday, February 04, 2021
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Center for Vision & Values
on February 4, 2021 at 09:22 am
The investment world was convulsed last week when at least one hedge fund (Melvin Capital) lost billions of dollars. The sudden, massive losses happened when a tidal wave of independent…...
Monday, January 25, 2021
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Center for Vision & Values
on January 25, 2021 at 11:14 am
The House of Representatives, with the sole responsibility of impeachment, has passed a single Article of Impeachment charging President Donald Trump with committing a high crime, namely that he “made…...
Wednesday, January 20, 2021
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Center for Vision & Values
on January 20, 2021 at 10:12 am
IFF: You have just published “Duty and Destiny: The Life and Faith of Winston Churchill” as part of a series of religious biographies issued by Eerdmans. What prompted you to…...
Monday, January 18, 2021
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Center for Vision & Values
on January 18, 2021 at 10:41 am
Each January, we honor Martin Luther King, Jr. for his leadership in combating racial segregation and securing civil rights for African Americans. However, critics lately have charged that King’s legacy…...
Friday, January 15, 2021
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Center for Vision & Values
on January 15, 2021 at 10:37 am
Each January, we honor Martin Luther King, Jr. for his leadership in combating racial segregation and securing civil rights for African Americans. However, critics lately have charged that King’s legacy…...
Tuesday, January 12, 2021
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Center for Vision & Values
on January 12, 2021 at 12:09 pm
John and his parents head to their first college admissions visit. After the tour and interview, they hear the admissions counselor say, “John, we are so impressed with you both…...
Monday, January 11, 2021
By
Center for Vision & Values
on January 11, 2021 at 10:38 am
“This could be the greatest day of our lives, but you’re gonna let it be the worst.” —Bluto Blutarsky, Faber College, Autumn 1978 On Christmas eve before bed, I…...
Friday, December 04, 2020
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Center for Vision & Values
on December 4, 2020 at 10:22 am
Walter E. Williams, prolific author, piercing cultural commentator, old school economist (that’s a good thing), devoted husband, loving father, and long-time friend of Grove City College has passed from this…...
Saturday, November 21, 2020
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Center for Vision & Values
on November 21, 2020 at 10:09 am
With all the attention commanded by the presidential campaign, election, and aftermath, plus the ongoing COVID-19 story, many other issues have faded into the background. Though escaping the headlines, some…...
Wednesday, November 11, 2020
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Center for Vision & Values
on November 11, 2020 at 09:56 am
For 50 years, I have had one foot planted in Sparta and one in Athens: the military and the academy. The dichotomy is not simply between militarism and intellectualism. Athenians…...
Tuesday, November 10, 2020
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Center for Vision & Values
on November 10, 2020 at 10:14 am
Few can name which groups the Godspeed and the Arabella brought to America. They were the Jamestown colonists in 1607 and the Puritans to Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630, respectively.…...
Wednesday, November 04, 2020
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Center for Vision & Values
on November 4, 2020 at 09:25 am
The idea of expanding the size of the U.S. Supreme Court, also known as “court packing,” has surfaced once again, as it did after the Brett Kavanaugh appointment. Often mentioned…...
Friday, October 30, 2020
By
Center for Vision & Values
on October 30, 2020 at 09:33 am
In my previous column, I described the “paradox of prosperity”—the strange tendency of many people who have benefited from economic advances to denounce and vilify the source of their prosperity,…...
Wednesday, October 14, 2020
By
Center for Vision & Values
on October 14, 2020 at 09:14 am
Will some senators on the Senate Judiciary Committee vilify Judge Amy Coney Barrett, President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee? Attacks on her religion, her large family, or claims that she will…...
Friday, September 25, 2020
By
Center for Vision & Values
on September 25, 2020 at 07:18 am
In Friedrich Hayek’s 1954 book Capitalism and the Historians, the late French philosopher and political economist Bertrand de Jouvenel noted a baffling historical trend: “Strangely enough, the fall from favor…...
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