Envy, one of the roots of racism, often springs from the faulty assumptions of zero-sum economics. The Judeo-Christian worldview establishes a positive sum economic model. God created an open universe, open to God, angels and imago Dei humans. In this economic model, the creation is to be stewarded and wealth
Modern racism is rooted in the physical: skin color and facial features. In postmodernism, race is rooted in ideology, i.e. “whiteness.” The Smithsonian National Museum of African History and Culture–NMAAHC–has an online teaching tool based on Critical Race Theory, titled “Talking About Race” which says, “Whiteness and white racialized identity
A human life is incomplete without the arts. If the “unexamined life is not worth living” as the ancient Greeks said, in the same way, a life without the experience and enjoyment of beauty is not a completely realized life. The Christian worldview takes into account the individual as a
How should Christians use the arts to proclaim the gospel? In the past, Europe enthroned reason. Seeing the terrible and devastating consequences, the West decided to adopt the even newer and more devastating attitude of irrationality. Can a Christian living in the midst of this post-Christian situation still proclaim the
J.K Rowling indicted by LGBT activists Almost every war has a turning point, seen only in retrospect. We can look back at World War I and recognize the turning point as the Battle of the Bulge. For WW II, in the Pacific theater, it was the Battle of Midway. Have
The Frankfurt School, and three major events—World War I, Russia’s Communist Revolution, and World War II—all had a powerful influence in creating the new mindset in the West. But not these only. A very influential group of French thinkers belong on the same list. These include J. Paul Sartre; Simone
Christians must recognize drastic changes in the West Whether we like it or not, whether we know it or not, the Christendom which once grounded the West’s social, political, moral, religious and family life, has disappeared, replaced by a new paradigm. This new mindset has permeated all the aspects and
We see the world changing before our eyes. Most of the changes are the consequences of abandoning truth and substituting new ideologies. We are moving from order to chaos, from truth to power. In today’s internet age, these changes are coming faster than ever. Changes that once took generations now
In April we published Yesterday’s Eugenics, Today’s Infanticide about the link between Darwin’s theory and the German Second Reich. The former became a building block for the latter. “It was the Second Reich, the German regime defeated in WWI, that first found in Darwinism the biological rationale to justify 16
One of our favorite organizations is Alliance Defending Freedom, founded January 31, 1994 to give the church an arm of engagement in the public square. As stated at their web page, With that launch [of the ADF], the Christian community gained growing awareness that the threats to its freedom were
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