Woman, the life giver How many times can you read a passage of Scripture and see what you have never seen before? This has been a pattern throughout my life, going deeper into a familiar passage of Scripture and finding new truths. A simple truth on the surface of a
Charles Dickens published Great Expectations in 1860. In those days, compassion was a verb. He describes a scene in which the protagonist, Pip, identifies with the profound suffering of another character in the story, an old woman who was jilted at the altar decades ago and has never gone outside our seen
A recent post at Breakpoint— From Obergefell to Surrogacy —struck me for how powerfully it points to a lamentable change in our culture and laws, a change motivated by “compassion.” In this case, compassion towards infertile couples. Who of us can argue against being compassionate to a couple who wants to have and care
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 written about the SSD here and in his marvelous little book Beyond the Sacred/Secular Divide. Now with
Iraq cemetery destroyed by ISIS, photo by Mstyslav Chernov (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], via Wikimedia Commons As we enter 2018, it is fitting to remember that 2017 brought the end of ISIS as a caliphate. The Western media has hardly noticed, as if the carnage and raw evil
People in a locked-in state can have a real life? When it comes to referencing disabilities here in the West our vocabulary has changed. At one time, anyone with a mental illness was labelled “crazy” or “insane.” Those with slower response times were “dim-witted.” A cleft palate was a “hare
Gay, at one time, was defined as “merry; airy; jovial; sportive; frolicksome” (Webster’s 1828). Today, it connotes something very different. In some ways, the opposite. There are contexts in modern life where people suffer immense pain and yet are not permitted to talk about it because the society does not acknowledge
Love, someone said, makes the world go around. Maybe so. But I know this: sacrificial love makes the kingdom of God appealing to others. Love wins people, sometimes when nothing else will. I have often said that the irreducible minimum of God’s commands is, Love your neighbor as yourself. But
Maybe you’ve seen the reports that—is it Bruce or Caitlyn Jenner—is regretting that famous surgery. (Maybe that’s true, maybe not.) To the degree we are shaped by a biblical worldview, such regret would come as no surprise. When we depart from God’s order, we suffer. More on that metaphysical observation
With the denial of God and His created order, there is no anchor for the biblical concept of human beings being made in the image of God. Man is reduced to an animal with base animal instincts. There is no transcendent reality, as reflected in the Judeo-Christian worldview that elevates
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