The United States and much of the globe is being rocked by an ascending ideology. This ideology is being manifested through policies, politics and turmoil on the streets. As I write we are seeing renewed violence in Minneapolis and Portland. What is the division driving this mayhem? It’s not merely
Many of us have been encouraged by the Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson. Over the last couple of years he has suffered from benzodiazepine withdrawal syndrome leaving him weak and largely out of the public eye. Many of us have prayed for the restoration of his health (and he reports doing
Easter is a great time to reflect that the tyranny we see growing in our world today—with its gnawing sense of unease—is a direct consequence of our living in a post-truth culture. If truth is gone, what’s left? Raw power, the Darwinian hypothesis of “survival of the fittest.” We have
Three questions interweave in ways that may not be immediately evident: they all relate to the moral universe. Why are the Jews God’s chosen people? Why are some nations rich and others poor? Why have Jews been so persecuted throughout history? I have pondered these questions much of my adult
Krzysztof Mizera creates art in a stained-glass window – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7768903 Daniel Borstein was director of the United States Library of Congress. He wrote a book about human creativity and the arts entitled The Creators which he begins with a question: Where did the impulse for
Artists have a unique opportunity to glorify God and bless the world. God is beautiful, and His beauty draws us into worshiping Him. He is beautiful, He is good; all truth comes from Him. Truth, Beauty and Goodness comprise the culture of the kingdom of God. The nations are waiting
A society does not end slavery, racism, or sexism merely by writing new laws. As we saw in part 1, the changes must begin at a moral level. An Old Testament example We read an example from Philemon, here’s one from Jeremiah. The word that came to Jeremiah from the
How does one end moral evils like slavery, racism, or sexism? First, by recognizing that culture is upstream from laws and policies, and worship–“cult” –is upstream from culture. We make societies like the God or gods we worship. A godless universe leaves people free to enslave others, objectify women, and
Genesis chapter 3 records the rebellion and consequent fall of humans. The creation fell under a curse, and a vicious cycle of human poverty began. People worshiped gods of their own imagination, small family gods, tribal gods, capricious gods of nature with limited power. These gods were unpredictable, they ruled
In this last post of the series on Coronavirus and education, let’s consider a vital question: How are we to respond? What lasting takeaway can we derive from these reflections that will enable a more appropriate, virtuous and effective educational philosophy and practice? The disruption of schooling by the Coronavirus
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