A college psychology professor's observations about public policy, mental health, sexual identity, and religious issues
Recently, I asked my friend, colleague and Ronald Reagan biographer Paul Kengor to participate in a Q&A comparing Donald Trump with Ronald Reagan. It is my feeling that Reagan would not be welcome in today’s GOP and that he would be especially troubled by the emergence of Trump. Kengor agrees and will respond to questions … Continue reading “Reagan Biographer Paul Kengor on Donald Trump v. Ronald Reagan”
Note: The recent healthcare reform certainly is historic, in the sense that it most likely will be considered an important, perhaps defining, event in the Obama Presidency. Whatever eventually happens politically as a result, there are important elements of public discourse which marked the debate. One of those elements –religious rhetoric– is the subject of Dr. Kengor’s … Continue reading “Paul Kengor: God Gets His Healthcare Bill”
My friend and Director of the Center for Vision and Values, Paul Kengor, wrote an analysis of President Obama’s National Prayer Breakfast speech. As I listened to Obama’s speech, I was distracted in a positive way by his reference to Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill. However, I also noted the President’s references to civility and hope he … Continue reading “Paul Kengor on President Obama’s National Prayer Breakfast speech”
Currently, here at Grove City College, the Center for Vision and Values is hosting our annual conference. Titled, “Church and State: 2008 – A history of church-state relations and and a look at where the values voter will turn in 2008,” the schedule is filled with scholarly papers regarding church-state relations with special emphasis on … Continue reading “Religion and the 2008 election: A conversation with Paul Kengor, Fred Barnes and Michael Medved”
In light of the attention given to Paul Kengor’s new book, God and Hillary Clinton: A Spiritual Life, I asked Paul some questions to go a little deeper into topics of interest to readers. Of course, the fullest treatment of these issues comes from the book, but Paul here provides more depth on the reports … Continue reading “More on God and Hillary Clinton: Interview with historian Paul Kengor”
I tend to post about sexuality, religion, music and politics in about that order. Here is one about recent political history. I recently interviewed Grove City College colleague again about his new book called The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism (HarperCollins, 2006) and can be read here.
Photo: David Barton (Left); Eric Metaxas (Right) In a Wednesday Onenewsnow article about Ronald Reagan’s Christianity, David Barton is quoted as saying: Reagan’s faith matured over the years from a “pretty shallow” faith early on to more mature understanding of scripture. While many people did doubt Reagan’s sincerity, Reagan biographer and Grove City College colleague Paul Kengor … Continue reading “Brief Note: David Barton and Ronald Reagan’s Pretty Shallow Faith”
In 2011, social conservatives — mostly Christian groups — complained about the presence of GOProud, a gay conservative group, at CPAC. Many socially conservative groups pulled out. Now, CPAC has scheduled Milo Yiannopoulos to speak. Yiannopoulos is a gay self-styled conservative who has spoken favorably of sex between young teens and adults. Thus far, (since … Continue reading “In 2011, Evangelicals Protested GOProud at CPAC. Now They Are Silent about Milo Yiannopoulos at CPAC”
The annual conference of the Conservative Political Action Committee is coming up next week. However, controversy has already arrived in the form of Milo Yiannopoulos. His invitation to speak at the conference is not sitting well with critics. The criticism of the invitation became especially hot after two videos surfaced of Yiannopoulos defending young teen-adult … Continue reading “Pressure Mounts on CPAC to Cancel Milo Yiannopoulos' Speech”
When Barack Obama was president, evangelicals and conservatives cared about Ukraine. They believed Obama was weak and unwilling to confront Vladimir Putin’s expansionism into Ukraine. Now, evangelicals are largely silent about President Donald Trump’s warm words toward Russia’s leader and confusing rhetoric about Ukraine. An early signal of this shift was obvious at the GOP … Continue reading “Do Evangelicals Leaders Still Care about Ukraine?”
