Tag: culture
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RJ Snell is currently a visiting lecturer at Princeton University and directs the Center on the University and Intellectual Life for the Witherspoon Institute. Prior to that appointment he was Professor of Philosophy at Eastern University and the Templeton Honors College. He has an insightful essay here entitled “Reason Takes…
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Keith Lowery has a powerful essay here entitled “Say Something” wherein he wrestles with our responsibility to engage a culture freefalling into decay. His experience with young teenagers at a movie theater is shocking. “The cultural decay all around us feels increasingly like a relentless assault, and sometimes I grow…
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Nathan Finn has an essay here worth reading on church-state separation. “Patrick is simply wrong to suggest that the entire concept of separation of church and state is an unconstitutional lie that was concocted to silence people of faith. But he is certainly right to be concerned with how church-state separation…
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J. Budziszewski opines here on the esclating pandemic of lunacy infecting the surrounding culture. It’s worth reading in entirety. “The craziness of the culture has become so obvious that, finally, everyone gets it. We don’t need to go into the details of tampon dispensers in boys’ bathrooms. And yet I don’t…
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(This is from my upcoming book.) In 2005, reputable researchers Christian Smith and Melina Lundquist identified the predominate worldview among American teenagers as Moralistic Therapeutic Deism (MTD).1 They determined the creed of this worldview from interviews with 5,000 teenagers as consisting of five tenets:1 A God exists who created and…
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Andrew Walker penned an insightful article here entitled “Criticism isn’t cancellation”. He argues that American pluralism doesn’t require Christians to celebrate sin. “In French’s view, Christians shouldn’t object to this because American evangelicals need to take the log out of their eye and leave judgment to those inside the church.…
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A pastor, Levi Secord, and long-time resident in Minnesota shares some wisdom on its current situation here. He offers some practical advice. I’ve spent most of my life, and all my ministry, in Minnesota. What outsiders need to know is that she was not always as crazy as she is…
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This is truly bizarre and tragic. “Noguchi, wearing a white gown and tiara, dabbed away her tears, taking in the words of her husband-to-be: an AI-generated persona gazing out from a smartphone screen. “At first, Klaus was just someone to talk with, but we gradually became closer,” the 32-year-old call…
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I remember how different air travel was in the 60s and 70s . . . and how it now is. For those too young to know any different, watch this. Air travel is only one example of how the culture has deteriorated. In general today, men don’t treat women with…
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Church teaching has been historically divided into three categories: (1) THEOLOGY (what to believe), (2) APOLOGETICS (why to believe) and (3) ETHICS (how to act). There is a Symbiotic Relationship (mutual benefit) between the three areas, with each reinforcing the other two areas. If we emphasize one area to the…
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Christian Apologetics 