More from Comment

Comment's commitment to produce a new article every week continues apace with two recent entries.

The first is by the remarkable Mr. Rob Joustra, a recent political science and history graduate from Redeemer, who just happens to have an interest in music. (Fancy that!) In Building Institutions: Paste magazine, Joustra tells of an intriguing periodical spearheaded by young Christians with a vision for transcending the limitations of CCM and the élitism of so-called high culture. The end result is a quality publication "for people who still enjoy discovering new music, prize substance and songcraft over fads and manufactured attitude, and appreciate quality music in whatever genre it might inhabit."

The second article is by an obscure professor of politics living somewhere in south-central Upper Canada. Building Institutions: political parties attempts to grapple with the following questions: "What role should Christians play in the building and strengthening of political parties? Should we shun them? Should we attempt to gain control of or, more modestly, to try to influence, one or more of them? Should we found our own distinctively Christian political party as an alternative?" The author proposes six strategies for renewing and strengthening our political parties.

Happy reading.