I. Opening: Why Should We Be Surprised? Ideas have consequences — and nowhere is this truth more starkly visible than in the demographic collapse now unfolding across the United States. The nation’s fertility rate has fallen to 1.57, the lowest recorded figure in American history, well below the 2.1 replacement
Did you know that the word Hamas is in the Bible? I did not! This weekend, I read an article by a Jewish Rabbi/Theologian named Shmuel Klatzkin. The Hebrew word ḥāmas (חָמָס, meaning “violence,” “wrongdoing,” or “injustice”) is the antithesis of a more familiar word for Christians and Jews: šālôm
In the last blog, we talked about why people hate the Jewish people: because of their worldview and belief that God’s universe is a moral one. We also looked into the Nazi agenda to rid the world of the Jews and Christians, anyone bearing witness to the One true God.
In these tumultuous times, we find two groups of people pointing the culture at large to the God of the Bible. Of course, we predictably find the church in all her many iterations pointing people to God. The second group is much more surprising and rather unexpected. Christian believers are
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
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
The United States is being torn apart by charges of racism. You cannot surf the internet, watch the news, listen to the radio, or read a newspaper without encountering claims of racism. But the definition of racism has changed and today, it’s highly emotive and politicized. We used to think
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
Compassion as practiced by the early church serves as a contrast to that of the Romans and even the Jews at that time. Very often, the Jews at the time of Christ were merciless to sinners and Gentiles. Their law forbid helping a Gentile mother and her child even in
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