Sergiu Klainerman was born to a Jewish family in Bucharest in 1950, in the impoverished Communist “prison state” that was Nicolae Ceaușescu’s Romania. After high school he studied Mathematics at the University of Bucharest. His circumstances and culture afforded little opportunity: he could hope for little more than being a
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
Why does the world hate the Jews? Dennis Prager relates Hitler’s answer to this question. “We are fighting,” he said, “against the most ancient curse that humanity has brought upon itself. Against the so-called Ten Commandments, against them we are fighting.” His life’s mission, he said, was to destroy “the
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
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
School closings have forced parents to be more involved in their children’s education. As a result, they are seeing what is being taught in public education. Much of it is more dangerous than the CPP virus, which impacts physical and emotional health. But the CSE virus can kill the soul,
The United States is being torn apart. We might better be called the Divided States of America. We are two distinct peoples sharing one topography. Janeane Garofalo, a comedian and political activist, expressed this division in unforgettable fashion: [W]hen I see the American flag, I go, “Oh my God, you’re
Social justice has become all the rage, in more ways than one. As we watch the riots in the United States, the impact of BLM and Antifa in our country and other places, it is vital to understand the ideology driving these movements. Many in the church are confused. Many
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