When speaking to young people, I often mention the role of the artist in shaping culture. People are curious about what I mean, thus begins a discussion of the concept of the balladeer. I am careful to distinguish between artists who use their art for worship or evangelism and those
To be woke is to be nice. If a person is not woke, by definition, he cannot be nice. I finally get that. Two years ago, I posted an article about Black Lives Matter in which I argued that of course black lives matter, because all lives matter; we are
P is for pedophilia, and some are saying it’s time to add a new letter to LGBT, time to affirm pedophilia as a legitimate lifestyle, time to speak of LGBTP. German medical student Mirjam Heine recently gave a TED talk in which she asserted that “pedophilia is an unchangeable sexual
National Parliament Building of Hungary In our time, globalization as a philosophy is rapidly expanding. It is marked by moral and cultural relativism, groupthink, and the rise of the algorithm, that 21st century phenomenon which is eroding our ability to think. The individual is being subsumed into the universal. Nations
Answer: Western civilization Question: What do postmodern thought leaders identify as the biggest problem in the world? Postmodernists insist that social justice requires the death of Western civilization, as “social justice warrior” Jesse Jackson said in the 1980s. Western civilization is rooted in three streams of thought, three “books,” in a
If distinction could protect a school from LGBT activism and government overreach, Trinity Western University would be immune. According to its website, TWU, in Langley, British Columbia, Canada, is “consistently ranked among the top two universities in Canada for Educational Experience by the National Survey of Student Engagement according to
Is art to lead us in the pursuit of truth, goodness and and the beautiful? The culture of the kingdom of God is marked by Truth, Beauty and Goodness, the cultural trinity. (We have written about this here.) The West was built upon the pursuit of this trinity, born out
Reality has a way of showing up in the least expected places. Two researchers, Moran Gershoni and Shmuel Pietrokovski from the Weizmann Institute’s Molecular Genetics Department in Israel recently published the results of their research: The Landscape of Sex-differential Transcriptome and Its Consequent Selection In Human Adults. They summarize their
We have written about the abuse of power by the “new fascists,” about their use of language as weapons. This final post in the series will address fascist bullies. Marriage and the family, both inventions of God, are under assault from a new class of bullies: fascists. Increasingly, governments are
The new fascists are coming. Actually, they’re already here. Postmoderns’ primary weapon in their growing arsenal is language, words used to intimidate, cajole, and destroy their opponents. And, as the student reporter discovered, no verbal ploy, however caustic, is off limits. Few who saw the video clip represented by the
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