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
This is post 1 of 2 in the series “Compassion in Rome and America” Compassion in Rome and America Compassion in Rome and America, part 2 Compassion as practiced by the early church serves as a contrast to that of the Romans and even the Jews at that time. Very
This is post 2 of 2 in the series “the Jews and the world” What the Jews Can Teach us About the MORAL UNIVERSE Why Does the World HATE THE JEWS? Why does the world hate the Jews? Dennis Prager relates Hitler’s answer to this question. “We are fighting,” he
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
This is post 1 of 2 in the series “the Jews and the world” What the Jews Can Teach us About the MORAL UNIVERSE Why Does the World HATE THE JEWS? Three questions interweave in ways that may not be immediately evident: they all relate to the moral universe. Why
This is post 2 of 4 in the series “Call of the Balladeers Workshop” Christian Artists Can Glorify God and Bless the World Where Does the Impulse for Art Come From? Does More Volume Make Better Music? Tolkien on What is Good Art Krzysztof Mizera creates art in a stained-glass
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