In considering the problem of racism in America we would do well to study our history. Three Black men, brilliant and articulate contemporaries whose lives spanned the mid 1800s to the mid 1900s, were great leaders in America: W.E.B. Dubois (1868-1963), Booker T. Washington (1856-1915), and George Washington Carver (1864-1943).
Category: Theology
The United States is being torn apart by charges of racism. You cannot surf the internet, watch the news, listen to the radio, or read a newspaper without encountering claims of racism. But the definition of racism has changed and today, it’s highly emotive and politicized. We used to think
Recently I was talking with two artist friends in Brazil about a current project to develop an animated video from my lecture, “The Transcendence of Sexuality.” (See the video The Grand Design: Rediscovering Male and Female as Imago Dei, part of our Coram Deo online course.) During our conversation, one
This is post 2 of 2 in the series “Ten Things Every Christian Should Know About Social Justice Ideology” Ten Things Every Christian Should Know About Social Justice Ideology Ten Things You Should Know About Social Justice Ideology, part 2 In part 1, Scott Allen wrote that today’s ideological social
Image by Nicholas A. Tonelli, CC 4.0 Former General Attorney Bill Barr recently gave a devastating analysis of public-school education in America, coupled with a radical solution; families with school-age children would do well to heed his counsel. More on that below. But Barr was not the first to publicly
This is post 1 of 2 in the series “Ten Things Every Christian Should Know About Social Justice Ideology” Ten Things Every Christian Should Know About Social Justice Ideology Ten Things You Should Know About Social Justice Ideology, part 2 In recent years, a powerful ideology has swept out of
This is post 3 of 3 in the series “Math and human flourishing” Math and Human Flourishing White Math: 1 + 1 = 2 Say No to the New Racist Math The new math, deriving from Critical Race Theory, is no idle matter, but an insidious attempt that will impair
This is post 2 of 3 in the series “Math and human flourishing” Math and Human Flourishing White Math: 1 + 1 = 2 Say No to the New Racist Math Even in the so-called Dark Ages, one plus one equaled two. But today, Critical Race Theory scorns that reality
This is post 1 of 3 in the series “Math and human flourishing” Math and Human Flourishing White Math: 1 + 1 = 2 Say No to the New Racist Math Sergiu Klainerman was born to a Jewish family in Bucharest in 1950, in the impoverished Communist “prison state” that
I’ve often said that if the church does not disciple the nation the nation will disciple the church. In his thought-provoking paper, “A Church Without A View: Jonathan Edwards and Our Current Lifeview Discipleship Crisis,” theologian and pastor David Scott demonstrates how that has happened. He laments the absence of