At the 75th Golden Globe Awards, Oprah Winfrey received the lifetime achievement award. In the middle of her acceptance speech, Winfrey hit her stride when she praised women who were standing up to Harvey Weinstein and other Hollywood sexual predators. I want to say that I value the press more
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
A new fascism is on the rise in the West. A pluralistic framework will not create a pluralistic social and political order. As we have written before, social and political pluralism rests on the nonpluralistic foundation of Judeo-Christian Theism. In other words, because of Judeo-Christian influence, people are free to
Postmodernism wants to deconstruct the West, to smash the individual, and one of the key tools in its tool kit is intersectionality. For all of history, tribalism has divided the human family, as we have discussed in our post Intersectionality, The New Tribalism. But the Bible clearly reveals the One
Many people recognize what Jews and Christians have posited: the human being is an integrated physical and spiritual whole. No model of human life is sustainable that diminishes or ignores either part of the human, or seeks to bifurcate the integrity of human beings. But today the West denies the
We are living in a time when the implications of the worldview shift from modernism to postmodernism are becoming evident in daily life. What are the ideological roots driving postmodernism? Judeo-Christian Theism replaced ancient pagan ideologies and led to the rise of Western civilization. This was the premodern era; people
Where is the new sexuality heading? (Hint: What’s the natural conclusion of postmodern ideology?) The postmodern world begins its ascent onto the world scene by denying the concept of a metanarrative (an assertion which is itself a metanarrative, of course). Thus, postmodernism rejects the claims of Darwinian ideology as well
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