Last year, the “in” thing for postmoderns was “gender neutrality”: bathrooms, pronouns, names, birth certificates, wedding and drivers’ licenses. Even gender-neutral parents and gender-neutral children. Until recent years, we used men’s rooms and women’s rooms. No one would have thought of a man going into a women’s restroom or shower
At the 75th Golden Globe Awards, Oprah Winfrey received the lifetime achievement award. In the middle of her acceptance speech, Winfrey hit her stride when she praised women who were standing up to Harvey Weinstein and other Hollywood sexual predators. I want to say that I value the press more
Over the last three? generations, Western society has made two worldview moves: 1) From premodern (Judeo-Christian) theism to modern atheism, and then 2) From modern atheism to postmodern neo-paganism. These changes have powerfully affected our understanding of the concept of truth. Humans are to be truth seekers. We were designed
Recently we published, “Rape in Sweden Increased 1,472% from 1975 to 2014.” The post examined the deadly mix of postmodernism, with its dismissal of objective truth, and the violent misogyny of Islamism. Sweden’s rape experience is just the worst of several European countries that have seen an alarming growth of
This is post 1 of 3 in the series “new fascists” The New Fascism: Tolerance That Leads to Tyranny The New Fascists Use Words As Weapons New Fascists: Bullies Attacking the Family A new fascism is on the rise in the West. A pluralistic framework will not create a pluralistic
This is post 2 of 2 in the series “Love-Truth Divide” Love-Truth Divide Love-Truth Divide, part 2 We ended part 1 by pointing out that the world is discipling the church with a new definition of love. Love is being separated from truth and the church is beginning to abandon
This is post 2 of 2 in the series “intersectionality” Intersectionality, the New Tribalism Intersectionality Smothers the Individual Postmodernism wants to deconstruct the West, to smash the individual, and one of the key tools in its tool kit is intersectionality. For all of history, tribalism has divided the human family,
Many people recognize what Jews and Christians have posited: the human being is an integrated physical and spiritual whole. No model of human life is sustainable that diminishes or ignores either part of the human, or seeks to bifurcate the integrity of human beings. But today the West denies the
This is post 1 of 2 in the series “Love-Truth Divide” Love-Truth Divide Love-Truth Divide, part 2 During the rise of modernism, the church abandoned the comprehensive, integrative biblical worldview for the limitations and weakness of the Sacred/Secular Divide (SSD) of the Greeks. Our friend and co-worker Scott Allen has
We are living in a time when the implications of the worldview shift from modernism to postmodernism are becoming evident in daily life. What are the ideological roots driving postmodernism? Judeo-Christian Theism replaced ancient pagan ideologies and led to the rise of Western civilization. This was the premodern era; people
