Matt AgnioThe Core Modern ValueIt’s not hard to say that America has transitioned from a society in which the values were primarily determined by religion to a society…Apr 17, 2020Apr 17, 2020
Matt AgnioA story from The MotherMany spiritual traditions (in the West, particularly the arcane ones) hold that there was an original, divinely ordained plan for life on…Aug 27, 2017Aug 27, 2017
Matt AgnioNote that Universal Health Care is Probably InevitableRepublicans have continually wanted to strike against Obamacare ASAP, with the complaint that once you give an entitlement it’s very hard…Jun 27, 2017Jun 27, 2017
Matt AgnioTo the uproar over offensive speechIt seems to me that the general and increasing uproar about offensive speech is often approached from the wrong angle. Or at least from an…Jun 19, 2017Jun 19, 2017
Matt AgnioThe Muslim Ban (first weekend)The way the new executive-ordered immigration policy has been enacted completely disregards the lives of good people. The overwhelming…Jan 29, 2017Jan 29, 2017
Matt AgnioWar on Terror: The Good Guys (and the Bad Guys)In his acclaimed history of the Iraq War, Thomas Ricks is pretty clear: The central failure of U.S. policy in the Iraq after the invasion…Jan 28, 2017Jan 28, 2017
Matt AgnioIn the age of science there is still necessity for poet souls.We may not have a models so absolutely perfect that they can account for every nuance in the changing climate, or that they can calculate…Jan 26, 2017Jan 26, 2017
Matt AgnioPresident Trump is a symptom……and every last disruptive thing that he does is a symptom.Jan 20, 2017Jan 20, 2017
Matt AgnioKeeping “not normal” not normalIf we’re going to have a fair discussion, I wish Trump supporters — both the the quiet, “wait and see” supporters and the overt, gung-ho…Dec 31, 2016Dec 31, 2016
Matt AgnioWhen evangelism makes its business to attack other people’s behavior, rather than to invite a…It seems to me that anyone who knows even the basic plot points of the story should realize, and accept, that Christianity makes no…Nov 16, 2016Nov 16, 2016