Public admin prof @UTCMPA, program planning and eval, studying faith-work integration in PA, on the PCA TVP MNA CPN team. Two free books at link ...
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Very happy to spread the word that my short book, Bureaucrats in Babylon, is now available at chrishorne.net/. It's intended to help Christians who work for government and students studying public administration to think biblically about their faith-work integration.
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In Ezekiel 33:11, scripture reads, “As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that they turn from their ways and live.”
I support the death penalty. God himself told Noah that those who willfully take the life of another should be executed.
The United States Army prohibits public executions, but the Pentagon does not seem to care about following its own rules.
The pagan Roman Empire relished the public spectacle of executions. Growing up overseas in an Islamic country, some executions were public. Christendom, over time, recognized that justice is not to entertain or titillate. Justice is not meant to be a spectacle.
In Ezekiel 33:11, scripture reads, “As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that they turn from their ways and live.” Proverbs 24:17 echoes that for us. “Do not gloat when your enemy falls; when they stumble, do not let your heart rejoice.”
In Chapter 19 of De Spectaculis, Tertullian, one of the early post-apostolic church fathers, wrote about the public spectacle of executions in Rome. “It is good, no doubt, to have the guilty punished. Who but the criminal himself will deny that? And yet the innocent can find no pleasure in another's sufferings: he rather mourns that a brother has sinned so heinously as to need a punishment so dreadful,” he wrote.
In Confessions, Augustine wrote of his friend Alypius, who, dragged into the Coliseum to see gladiatorial fights, shut his eyes, though not his ears. Upon the cheers of slaughter, he opened his eyes to the blood, and the bloodlust corrupted him. Augustine’s writing has long taught Christians not to be entertained by the spectacle of violence, as watching it can damage you.
I support the death penalty. Public executions are soul-twisting and we should not go down that road.
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Covenant College is a great school with an emphasis on worldview formation and faithfulness to the scriptures that my friend Dr. Bunn, an acquaintance since high school, lives out. They are famously not political, and don’t even allow any official political clubs.
Anyone who knows him knows about both his accolades (ISI 30 under 30), and his unimpeachable, principled conservatism.
William Wolfe is employed by American Reformer, which the PCA declined to even let table at their General Assembly because of connections to actual white supremacists.
Wolfe should also learn to spell poli-sci before coming after anyone.
My article, "A Grounded Theory of Christian Public Administrators’ Integration of Faith and Work," was awarded JPNA's Best Article of 2024 at the 2026 Midwest Public Affairs Conference. I'm thankful, delighted, and soapboxing for the 12 people who will see this. :-) 1/6
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(4) If you're personally interested in faith-work integration, especially in public administration, check out my short book, Bureaucrats in Babylon: Biblical Guidance for the Christian Public Administrator--it's free online or cheap on Amazon. chrishorne.net 6/6
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NEW: a report from Vanderbilt and WashU just dropped, taking on the "state of scholarship in the humanities and social sciences," a big topic among critics of higher ed.
Read along w/ me 🧵
"... if we care about students, if we respect and honor them, then we respect and honor *their capacity for acting as moral beings*"
Freddie deBoer: You Can and Should Blame Young People When They Act Like Lazy Cheaters, Actually freddiedeboer.substack.com/p…
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I see people lamenting the lack of "evangelical elites" so here's my perspective:
I graduated from Princeton summa cum laude and then went to UC Berkeley for a PhD in theoretical chemistry. My career was all planned out: awards, academia, prestige.
Then I became a Christian 1/
Several of you helped me recruit participants for "A Grounded Theory of Christian Public Administrators’ Integration of Faith and Work." Thank you, again, and I invite you to read the article at doi.org/10.20899/jpna.4sy2x1…. @JPNAffairs
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"Autism? We had hardly heard the term growing up, and we had nothing remotely like it up our family trees. Yet here we were, handed a devastating diagnosis. All around us grew a rapidly rising tide of autism."
An enormously powerful piece by @JillEscher:
thefp.com/p/the-autism-surge…
Another fantastic group of UTC MPA alumni. Watch out, world.
We're so proud of our 2023 MPA graduates! This group had remarkable career growth even while students--can't wait to see what's next for all of them. Congratulations, y'all! @UTCPSPS @UTChattanooga @UTC__GradSchool
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1/ The shameful incident at Stanford Law School happened because SLS, like so many other academic institutions, has become an ideological echo chamber. Such incidents can be prevented, but only by enhancing viewpoint diversity, especially among faculty and administrators.
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This is what higher education is facing, more broadly. Fifteen years from now, the incoming freshman classes will be *much* smaller than they are today.
This is a chart that should keep college administrators up at night.
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Contrary to claims that the American founders were deists engaged in a strictly secular project, there is compelling evidence that most founders believed in God’s providence & were influenced by a *Christian* natural law tradition. @MDH_GFU @LawLiberty lawliberty.org/book-review/a…
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We're looking for some great UTC MPA students for Fall 2023. If you or someone in your network might want to get started with us on a path toward a public service career, check out utc.edu/mpa and let's talk!
One Square Inch We Won’t Concede
The Super Bowl celebrates many things Christians abhor: violence, avarice, eroticism, and consumerism.
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