What does it take to sustain freedom? Freedom isn’t the natural condition of fallen human beings. Our default setting is bondage, either internally through various addictions and idolatries, or externally though tyranny. Freedom is fragile and requires a precise ideological ecosystem to sustain. As we often say, ideas have consequences.
What’s the place of work in God’s economy? Thailand’s economy has experienced a remarkable transformation over the last four decades, “Poverty has declined substantially over the last 30 years,” the World Bank reports, “from 67% in 1986 to 7.2% in 2015 during periods of high growth and rising agricultural prices.”
“The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it. And the Lord God commanded the man, ‘You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of 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?
How should we read the Bible? Recently, a reader asked for “chapter and verse” to support an argument I had made in a post. That’s a fair question, and it prompted this post. Asking for a scriptural reference for a Christian’s statement is always appropriate. Sometimes we read the Bible
Are you seeing reality as God made it? Every culture has a dominant worldview that shapes its beliefs, institutions and practices. After a class in Sierra Leone completed a microbiology course, one student told the teacher, “I know that you taught us about polio, but do you want to know
Not quite three weeks ago we posted Socialism vs. Capitalism. It’s a hot topic, not to mention important, and the post has garnered lots of hits. So we are advancing the release of the video version in an effort to harness this interest and push the message out even further.
Western society is in crisis I am neither an historian nor a sociologist. Before becoming a Christian I was a Marxist. I have always had a certain interest and concern about intellectual issues related to the spiritual world and Christianity. For the Christian life to be relevant, it cannot be
Last year, the “in” thing for postmoderns was “gender neutrality”: bathrooms, pronouns, names, birth certificates, wedding and drivers’ licenses. Even gender-neutral parents and gender-neutral children. Until recent years, we used men’s rooms and women’s rooms. No one would have thought of a man going into a women’s restroom or shower
Over the last three? generations, Western society has made two worldview moves: 1) From premodern (Judeo-Christian) theism to modern atheism, and then 2) From modern atheism to postmodern neo-paganism. These changes have powerfully affected our understanding of the concept of truth. Humans are to be truth seekers. We were designed
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