Christians are generally familiar with Jesus’ mandate for the church, what we usually call the Great Commission, but fewer Christians are familiar with the Cultural Commission. Fewer still see the connection between these two commissions. Yet, neither has been rescinded. On the contrary, both remain active expressions of God’s purpose
What happens when a generation of young people fail to marry and have children? Not only does life diminish for them, but to the degree this develops as a pattern, the society will become self-absorbed and die from within. In reality, half the world’s countries have a fertility rate below
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
Sergiu Klainerman was born to a Jewish family in Bucharest in 1950, in the impoverished Communist “prison state” that was Nicolae Ceaușescu’s Romania. After high school he studied Mathematics at the University of Bucharest. His circumstances and culture afforded little opportunity: he could hope for little more than being a
Krzysztof Mizera creates art in a stained-glass window – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7768903 Daniel Borstein was director of the United States Library of Congress. He wrote a book about human creativity and the arts entitled The Creators which he begins with a question: Where did the impulse for
Artists have a unique opportunity to glorify God and bless the world. God is beautiful, and His beauty draws us into worshiping Him. He is beautiful, He is good; all truth comes from Him. Truth, Beauty and Goodness comprise the culture of the kingdom of God. The nations are waiting
Because we live in a moral universe, the application of the moral law makes a difference. Ethical monotheism breaks the cycle of poverty and contributes to the development of nations, the transforming of pagan nations into civilized nations. The proclamation of the good God and the obligations of a moral
Throughout history the Jewish people have been persecuted. In the last century Hitler and the Nazis sought to wipe the Jews from the face of the earth and succeeded in killing over 6,000,000 in the Holocaust. Today anti-Semitism is rising globally. Political Islam has called for the destruction of the
Richard Hausknecht was a New York City ob-gyn. His specialty was high-risk pregnancies. The New York Times asked him to comment about partial-birth abortions, during which a fully developed baby is partially extracted from the mother’s birth canal, the head left inside, the skull opened with a pair of scissors, the
The creation is personal because it was made by the personal God Each worldview, whether it is biblical theism, animism, or secularism, has a story about beginnings, a plot line, and a vision for the future. In fact, every worldview must answer four basic questions: Where did we come from?
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