Our good friend Nancy Pearcey wrote a brief eulogy for Edith Schaeffer, who died March 30 in Switzerland. Edith taught us both about the apologetics of beauty. Nancy’s post by that title tells it much better than I can. What most impressed me in knowing Edith at L’Abri was her emphasis on
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When I was in school, my teachers in two subjects taught me the concept of transposition. In math we learned to move a number and its sign from one side of the equation to another. In music we learned to move the pitch of a composition upwards or downwards. But
Some time back I was talking to a young man who had married about a year earlier. The conversation turned to children and he remarked that they weren’t sure they were going to have kids. I gently reminded him that the Bible considered such a position abnormal, that God told
I recently witnessed an unlikely scene: the Bible exalted by an atheist government! While driving down Nyezalyezhnastsi Boulevard to the international airport in Minsk, Belarus, we encountered a feast for the eyes, the just-completed National Library of Belarus. An intriguing statue stood near the front of the beautiful building. A larger-than-life man from
In a post last January we mentioned a friend in India who is using art to disciple his nation. We are happy to bring you this update. Discipling Nations. In the last few months we have had surprising opportunities to share our paintings on Tuberculosis with Members of Parliament, both from
Labor Day. This is the perfect opportunity to touch on one of those biblical topics neglected in so much Christian teaching: work. Yes, God has lots to say about our work. We have featured Dr. Christian Overman of Worldview Matters in several posts, including: Helicopters, Light Bulbs, and Breakfast The Missing
We recently posted Scott Wisley’s story about working with farmers in Papua. That post resonates with another account of an alert cross-cultural servant working with agriculturalists. On a trip to Kenya, I shared dinner with an agronomist working for a local Christian relief and development organization. He explained how he
For many years I have been teaching about the need to revive the Reformation. At the heart of this message is what Max Weber, the German social philosopher, called the Protestant work ethic, the virtues of hard work, thrift, and generosity which created an economic revolution that lifted the nations
The Christians in my generation were profoundly impacted by Hal Lindsay’s influential book The Late Great Planet Earth. I have often said that this book has done more than any other to disengage the church from the task that Christ has given her. Lindsay presented a future of things are
One of the people who most influenced the writing of my first book, Discipling Nations, was my Indian friend, Vishal Mangalwadi. Vishal, founder of The Revelation Movement, is an international lecturer, social reformer, cultural and political columnist, philosopher, and author. Vishal and his wife, Ruth, wrote The Legacy of William Carey,
