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Everything That is Solid Melts Into Air — The New Secular Worldview

This post is the third in a four part series on Secularization and the Sexual Revolution. Impossible to Believe: The Endgame of Secularism In his important Massey Lectures delivered in 1991, Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor spoke of The Mala ...

March 3, 2016

A Prayer for Primary Day

"Almighty Father, we do come before you aware of the fact that government is not an accident nor is it our invention, but rather it is your gift to us in the very structures of creation as you have given us — that which will lead to righteousness and ...

March 1, 2016

The Secularization of the West and the Rise of a New Morality

(This post is the second in a four part series on Secularization and the Sexual Revolution.) The new sexual morality did not emerge from a vacuum. Massive intellectual changes at the worldview level over the last 200 years set the stage for the re ...

February 22, 2016

Secularization and the Sexual Revolution: Evangelical Theology and the Cultural Crisis (Part 1)

This post is the first in a four part series on Secularization and the Sexual Revolution. In the face of the sexual revolution the Christian church in the West now faces a set of challenges that exceeds anything it has experienced, of a similar ma ...

February 3, 2016

The Scandal of Biblical Illiteracy: It’s Our Problem

While America's evangelical Christians are rightly concerned about the secular worldview's rejection of biblical Christianity, we ought to give some urgent attention to a problem much closer to home--biblical illiteracy in the church. This scandalous ...

January 20, 2016

The Courageous Leadership of Winston Churchill

Sir Winston Churchill is widely regarded as the greatest leader of the twentieth century. Born in the splendor of Blenheim Palace on November 30, 1874, Churchill’s life would span the most decisive years of the transition into the modern world. Thoug ...

January 8, 2016

For the Mouth of the Lord Hath Spoken It: The Real Meaning of Handel’s “Messiah”

Though his work is almost universally known within the English-speaking world, Charles Jennens is virtually unknown. He was a brilliant librettist -- a writer of texts to be put to music by others. Born in the year 1700, Jennens inherited his father' ...

December 22, 2015

Do Christians and Muslims Worship the Same God?

A statement made by a professor at a leading evangelical college has become a flashpoint in a controversy that really matters. In explaining why she intended to wear a traditional Muslim hijab over the holiday season in order to symbolize solidarity ...

December 18, 2015

For the Fall and Rising of Many in Israel

If your house is like mine, the Christmas cards are now arriving at full blast. Some come with letters and notes, some with inscriptions and Christmas messages. The most explicitly Christian cards often feature a manger scene or another biblical scen ...

December 11, 2015