On October 7, 2023, Hamas and other terrorist organizations carried out a surprise raid on the nation of Israel. More Jews were killed on this day than at any time since the Holocaust during WWII. It is estimated that 1000 Hamas fighters systematically attacked 50 Israeli sites including military bases,
In the last post we saw that we are living in the context of a cultural wasteland. Next, we will examine the second symbol Nathan Stone presents. We must realize that the wasteland is in fact inhabited by the Evil One. Working from an atheistic framework and recognizing only half
Several months ago, I read an article by Nathan Stone that catalyzed my quest to understand the times. Stone begins by remarking that the pro-life movement’s celebration of the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe vs Wade, was short lived. Since this decision, abortions have increased over 40% in 37
The babies are alive. A recent headline from the little-known Center for Medical Progress should be front and center on every major newspaper and news broadcast: “University of Pittsburgh ADMITS Hearts Beating While Harvesting Aborted Infants’ Kidneys.” The Roe v Wade decision by the Supreme Court legalized aborting babies; it
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
Image by Nicholas A. Tonelli, CC 4.0 Former General Attorney Bill Barr recently gave a devastating analysis of public-school education in America, coupled with a radical solution; families with school-age children would do well to heed his counsel. More on that below. But Barr was not the first to publicly
The events of January 6, in Washington DC, with the storming of the US Capitol, during the debate over certification of the Electoral College votes, stunned the nation and the world. The nation’s capital city became a fortress for the inauguration of President Joe Biden, including aggressive fencing and other
Many fine teachers are committed to the flourishing of children. Thirty-seven percent of public school teachers are evangelical Christians[1] who chose their vocation to engage with a nation’s most important resource. This is a sure sign of Christians’ care for children. Fifty-eight percent of educators, and sixty-four percent of all
This blog series comes in the context of a perfect storm, that is, the juxtaposition of two major phenomena coinciding in our world. The first phenomenon is the untimely arrival—it would be untimely at any moment of history—of the Coronavirus which, in a few months, has affected 213 countries, infecting
In an increasingly polarized America, religious liberty is eroding. Surely most observers of American society would agree that we are becoming more polarized. We are a nation divided. In fact, we are actually two very different nations sharing one geography, two nations enlivened by two very different moral and metaphysical
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