Christmas celebrates the moment in history when a young woman conceived a child by the Holy Spirit and gave birth to the promised Messiah of the Jews and Savior of the world. For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be
We see the world changing before our eyes. Most of the changes are the consequences of abandoning truth and substituting new ideologies. We are moving from order to chaos, from truth to power. In today’s internet age, these changes are coming faster than ever. Changes that once took generations now
This is post 2 of 2 in the series “Difference feminism” What is “Difference Feminism”? Male and Female: Complementarianism vs. Egalitarianism How does the Bible view male and female? In part one we introduced the various manifestations of feminism in the West. Here’s a table to summarize. [*] While we
Jesus said, “The poor you will always have with you” (Matt. 26:11). Two millennia later, 815 million people lack enough food to lead a healthy, active life.[i] Nine million people die every year of hunger or hunger-related causes.[ii] These numbers are down from forty years ago—that’s good. But this level of
In part one we wrote about Jesus’ parable of the vineyard to show that God invested his creation with metaphysical capital. In this post we will elaborate on another kind of capital, moral capital. Michael Novak, the economist and economic philosopher, describes the need for a moral ecology, a systemic
God invented capital Mark 12:1-12 is a parable about accountability, theft and judgment. It also reveals something about resources. And he began to speak to them in parables. “A man planted a vineyard and put a fence around it and dug a pit for the winepress and built a tower,
Fossil fuels are bad. Green energy is good. That’s upside down, says Andrée Seu Peterson in an outstanding article at World. She addresses some of the same themes we wrote about in What Does God Think About Overpopulation? We are happy to point our readers to this gem from Ms.
Last September we published David Evans’s article, Ten Biblical Principles for Agriculture. This post has generated lots of views, so we want to harness that interest by offering an animated version here. Click the image below (or go here if the image does not appear). David’s full paper is available
You can buy 125 pounds of iron for $5. But that value goes up a bunch depending on how the iron is developed. Darrow unpacks this truth in his February 14 post, “The Power of Human Imagination.” Just click the title in the image below (or click here) to read
Woman, the life giver How many times can you read a passage of Scripture and see what you have never seen before? This has been a pattern throughout my life, going deeper into a familiar passage of Scripture and finding new truths. A simple truth on the surface of a
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