This is post 3 of 3 in the series “I Have a Dream” Anniversary of MLK speech Pro-Human is Better than “Anti-Racist” Redemptive Suffering: The Calling of the Christian REDEMPTIVE SUFFERING, part 2 The Apostle Peter, in his first epistle, writes to the persecuted church, believers suffering for their faith
This is post 2 of 3 in the series “I Have a Dream” Anniversary of MLK speech Pro-Human is Better than “Anti-Racist” Redemptive Suffering: The Calling of the Christian REDEMPTIVE SUFFERING, part 2 Martin Luther King Jr., in his famous “I Have a Dream Speech,” given August 28, 1963, spoke
This is post 1 of 3 in the series “I Have a Dream” Anniversary of MLK speech Pro-Human is Better than “Anti-Racist” Redemptive Suffering: The Calling of the Christian REDEMPTIVE SUFFERING, part 2 In August 1963, in the heat of the civil-rights movement, Martin Luther King Jr. courageously and famously
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).
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
If God is dead, everything based on His existence—love, morals, truth, beauty, the significance of each human life, etc. … all of that is dead as well. So is education. Fredrick Nietzsche put it this way: When one gives up the Christian faith, one pulls the right to Christian morality
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
Years ago when I was working for a nonprofit organization focused on global hunger I was doing research into the causes of hunger. At that point, as a young man, I assumed people were hungry primarily from natural causes: too many people in the world; droughts, floods and famine interrupted
On June 13, 2020, thousands of French citizens joined a BLM protest in front of the Eiffel Tower. Before it was over, the protest had morphed to a riot. But this is not the first sign of Wokeness in France. Woke ideology permeated French universities for years, before infecting French
This is post 2 of 2 in the series “Compassion in Rome and America” Compassion in Rome and America Compassion in Rome and America, part 2 Centuries after the gospel brought compassion to ancient Rome, the context of our world today is equally difficult. I have been told of places
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