Kimberly Brancato and her sons In January 2017, I accepted a temporary job teaching Language Arts to eighth graders at Highland Park Middle School in central New Jersey. I took over the established curriculum, teaching Animal Farm by George Orwell. During my second week, several students said that newly elected
Humans can choose truth over lies. We either allow lies to have power over us, or we deny that power by a simple act: turn off the TV, put down the video game, walk away from the gossip. We need not be overwhelmed. A simple act of resistance can defeat
Truth is dying, our world unwinding. Multiculturalism, political correctness (civic relativism) and the delusion of personal relativism are undermining our identities, families, communities and nations. Postmodernism has abandoned reality and reason and embraced narrative and emotions. This flight of fancy is quickly gaining the force of law. The pressure is
Fifty years ago, watching Francis Schaeffer write on a napkin, I learned something important about the nature of truth. And I’m still reflecting on that evening with Dr. Schaeffer at his mountain home, Chalet Les Melezes, in Huemoz, Switzerland. What he said that night and the diagrams he drew on a
Truth, beauty and goodness are the hallmarks of the culture of the kingdom of God. These are what I call the cultural trinity. Just as the Father, Son and Holy Spirit are separate persons yet one God, so truth, beauty and goodness are not the same, but they cannot be
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
During the rise of modernism, the church abandoned the comprehensive, integrative biblical worldview for the limitations and weakness of the Sacred/Secular Divide (SSD) of the Greeks. Our friend and co-worker Scott Allen has written about the SSD here and in his marvelous little book Beyond the Sacred/Secular Divide. Now with
The ministry of the Disciple Nations Alliance is based on the conviction that truth has the power to transform lives, communities and even nations. Broken, impoverished communities are transformed when the church confronts cultural lies, and embodies and proclaims the truth. Helping the church do this is the beating heart
Finding truth is not a futile pursuit! These last few months, at Darrow Miller and Friends we have been writing on issues related to the “post truth” culture that we now inhabit. We have sought to make a distinction between truth and narrative, between the subjective and the objective. Richard Pearcey’s
Fake news is the inevitable fruit of several generations of naturalism and evolutionism. Ideas take time to move from conception to fruition. In 1882, German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche insinuated that “God is dead.” Over the generations since, we have seen the gradual death of everything based on God’s existence, including
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