The Apostle Peter, in his first epistle, writes to the persecuted church, believers suffering for their faith in Jesus Christ at the hands of Roman authorities and the pagan world. Peter acknowledges that suffering and instructs them how to deal with it in a redemptive way. The Apostle Paul, in
Martin Luther King Jr., in his famous “I Have a Dream Speech,” given August 28, 1963, spoke to hundreds of thousands gathered on the Washington Mall. But he actually addressed all Americans and the world. Like William Wilberforce in a previous generation, who called the world to consciousness of the
In August 1963, in the heat of the civil-rights movement, Martin Luther King Jr. courageously and famously gave his “I Have A Dream” speech. I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a
What happens when a generation of young people fail to marry and have children? Not only does life diminish for them, but to the degree this develops as a pattern, the society will become self-absorbed and die from within. In reality, half the world’s countries have a fertility rate below
God created; He is the first artist. He made us in His image, which includes imagination, the ability to be creative. He is the primary creator, we are the secondary creators. The cultural mandate directs us to take what God has made and to do something with it. Someone who
What often passes for worship music may be missing the mark. Beauty, truth, and goodness form the “cultural trinity.” These three virtues, working together, mimic the Creator, the three-in-one God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. One God, three persons, unity and diversity in community, and inseparable. Truth is beautiful and
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).
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
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
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