The West, as a whole, has developed beyond the rest of the world and in fact has blessed many in other parts of the globe. Notwithstanding its postmodern critics, including professors who love to censure Western civilization, the history of the West has something to teach the rest. While there
We have written about the transformation of Singapore from a poor, densely populated city-state to one of the most beautiful, prosperous cities in the world in half a century. It is truly a city in a garden. The story of Chicago, Illinois has some parallels. The Great Chicago Fire raged
Recently I was talking with two artist friends in Brazil about a current project to develop an animated video from my lecture, “The Transcendence of Sexuality.” (See the video The Grand Design: Rediscovering Male and Female as Imago Dei, part of our Coram Deo online course.) During our conversation, one
This is post 1 of 3 in the series “Math and human flourishing” Math and Human Flourishing White Math: 1 + 1 = 2 Say No to the New Racist Math Sergiu Klainerman was born to a Jewish family in Bucharest in 1950, in the impoverished Communist “prison state” that
This is post 2 of 3 in the series “Christmas 2020” Joy to the World; Heaven Comes to Earth! Far As the Curse is Found Goodwill from the Holy Family Hospital in Bethlehem Years ago, singing “Joy to the World,” I had a “revelation.” The third stanza startled me; it
Only God knows where the COVID 19 storm will take us. Some trends are encouraging, some prognostications troubling. Yet, as many have observed, the pandemic isn’t the leading cause of death in the world. Most likely, you have not been told what is. Seasonal flu? Smoking? Cancer? No. Nor is
Today’s Coronavirus reality provides an opportunity for everyone—no matter how busy we are—to sit down and re-evaluate some big questions. How am I spending my life? What direction am I headed? I recently asked these questions, and reflected on the situation the world is going through. Here are some thoughts
Like you and the rest of the world, my dear wife and I have been wondering aloud about the Coronavirus — when it will end, will we survive, and how we will deal with it? She asked this simple question: “Does this not fall under the realm of the first
As the Coronavirus leaps around the globe we are probably watching the veritable tip of the iceberg. As of February 26, the disease had infected 81,600 people, at least 2,767 had died, and thirty-nine nations had reported confirmed cases of COVID-19, the official name for the Coronavirus (which first appeared
Fossil fuels are bad. Green energy is good. That’s upside down, says Andrée Seu Peterson in an outstanding article at World. She addresses some of the same themes we wrote about in What Does God Think About Overpopulation? We are happy to point our readers to this gem from Ms.
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