Category: apologetics
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From my coming book . . . The original Ars Moriendi warns “for men seek sooner and busier after medicines for the body than for the soul.” This is even more true six centuries later with the wonders of modern medicine. There is nothing new under the sun. Ars Moriendi…
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A.S. Ibrahim offers his perspective here as a theologian with two PhDs and someone who spent most of his life in the Middle East. This action wasn’t just justified—it was long overdue. I’m not saying this as a knee-jerk hawk or someone blind to the costs of military force. I’m…
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Arnold J. Toynbee was a 20th century British historian who studied the rise and fall of some 26 civilizations in his massive 12-volume work “A Study of History“, identifying a common theme for their collapse. They did not collapse from an external foe but from internal decay and disintegration. Britannica…
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Al Mohler has an opinion piece here on the rise of religious liberalism in politics. most evangelical Christians understand that moral character includes talking responsibility for the ideologies at stake and the policies that would result from your vote. Politics in a fallen world is messy and getting messier. This…
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RR Reno ponders Just War theory here in relation to the ongoing operation Epic Fury in Iran. Just War theory has a long history in Christianity. You can read the history of Just War theory here. While Augustine commented on it, Aquinas provided the most extensive thinking on the subject.…
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Canada will soon become the first country in the world to see 100,000 of its own people die by committing assisted suicide. Read about it here. This is what happens when a country embraces a culture of death.
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The implications of the current Iranian conflict are far-reaching and go well beyond the geopolitical discussions you might hear discussed on social channels or cable news. While our media is focused on international trade outcomes, the White House’s foreign policy, and the prospects of stability for the region, an underrated impact is…
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From my coming book that is about 2/3 complete . . . In 1519 at the Dawn of the Reformation, Martin Luther published a sermon entitled “A Sermon on Preparing to Die.” Luther released it in response to a parishioner who could not shake his fear of death. In it…
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David Klein provides info here on Iranian Protestant Christians and and evangelical Christian communities in Iran, who are largely made up of converts from Muslim families, or at least nominally Muslim families. Despite this, Protestant Christianity is the fastest growing religion in Iran, with estimates ranging between 1 and 3…
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Carl Trueman offers insight here into the dystopian view of life that is independent of any morality. In short, medical professionals—those trained to save lives but not to explain why a particular life is worth saving—had become the major ethical arbiters of social policy by default. And here it is…
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