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Yes, Christian Western Civilization is Superior to Every Other Civilization
This assertion was unquestioned in the West for 1,500 years, not until one Karl Marx declared Christianity the enemy of his inevitable coming communist revolution. In their little Communist Manifesto, published in 1848, Marx and his benefactor, Friedrich Engels,...
The Growth of Pietism and Secularism’s Inevitable Dominance
Pietism and secularism lead to the same thing: a secular society devoid of Christian influence. As I’ve argued here previously, Pietism and secularism are two sides of the same coin; one requires the other, and each contributes to the other. This is an odd notion for...
This is Us, Alzheimer’s and the Programming of Modern Medicine
My wife and I recently watched a TV series called This is Us, and one of the main characters came down with Alzheimer's. Given I’ve had a health epiphany because of Covid, I now see portrayals of disease like this differently than I used to. This Is Us was a series...
Articles on Theology
In Case You Hadn’t Noticed: We Live in a Fallen World
I write this, and my title, while we as a nation are in the middle of a bitterly contested election. It seems to many of us that a whole lot of chicanery is going on, or more accurately fraud and outright theft of a presidential election. We have lived through four...
Christianity Is a Religion of Knowledge: Seek It!
As I've been writing my way through the Bible, I've recently been engaging with Paul's letters, and his focus on knowledge in the life of the Christian has stood out to me. Since the Second Great Awakening in the early 1800s, for much of Christianity knowledge has...
A Dangerous Question: “I Asked the Lord That I Might Grow” by John Newton
One of the most important things to teach your children, and to remind them and yourself daily, is that life is hard. The root of anger, and bitterness, and frustration, and just an overall bad attitude, is to expect it not be hard, as if the difficulties in life are...
Articles on Explanatory Power
Of Course the Solar Eclipse is an Act of God, But So Is Everything Else!
In case you've been in a cave somewhere without this Internet thing, or access to any TV, Radio, the regular or short wave kind, you likely know there is going to be a total solar eclipse tomorrow across much of America. This doesn't happen very often so it's kind of...
Dunkirk and the Wages of Sin
When we came out of the movie theater having just watched the very intense and entertaining hit movie Dunkirk, all I could think of was the Apostle Paul's phrase in Romans 6:23 that "the wages of sin is death." This phrase about sin's ultimate consequences points back...
Religion and Faith: All Human Beings Partake of Both Regardless of What They Believe
When I read a (long) piece recently titled, "Can We Be Good Without God? On the political meaning of Christianity," I was reminded yet again that ideas have consequences, and that there is no neutral space where ideas inspired by "religion" do not have implications...
Articles on Culture
40 Days for Life: Don’t Eat the Babies, Save the Babies!!!
In case you are not aware where "Eat the babies" came from, watch this priceless satire of the leftists' absurd obsession with "climate change": The woman was a plant at an AOC townhall, and she appears distraught at the "three months" we have before "climate change"...
Classical Education: Opportunity to Challenge The Religion of Secularism
We were all taught growing up that there is this thing called the separation of church and state. The phrase goes back to a letter Thomas Jefferson wrote to the Danbury Baptists (CT) in 1802 where he mentions a wall between the two. This metaphor of Jefferson was...
What Parents and their Children Can Learn from the Train Wreck of Amy Winehouse’s Life
If you're at all familiar with popular music in the last decade or two you surely know of Amy Winehouse. This young talent died of alcohol poisoning in July of 2011 at the ripe old age of 27, joining the pantheon of young musicians who've died before they got old. My...
Articles on Apologetics
Do Your Children a Favor: Watch “Brad’s Status” with Them
I'd never heard of this movie with Ben Stiller until a few days ago, and when I read the premise and learned it was on Amazon Prime I figured we'd give it a go. Brad's Status is about a 50-something middle class man watching his only son explore college, Harvard no...
Secularism: To Believe Otherwise
That we live in a secular age there can be no doubt. I've attacked secularism as a paper tiger (actually, Berlin Wall) in a number of posts, which is why I looked forward to reading James K.A. Smith's How (Not) To be Secular. (It's a book about a book, Charles...
Did a Dead Guy Really Come Back to Life 2000 Years Ago?
The whole of Christianity and it's validity rests on one simple historical event that we celebrate this Easter weekend, that Jesus of Nazareth was killed and came back to life. As I immersed myself back into apologetics over that last eight or so years, I've learned...
Articles on Parenting and Family
Musician Sir the Baptist: I’m Anti-Religion, Not Anti-God
There is much talk in American culture about young Christians going off to college or into life and abandoning their faith. I'm sure there are many reasons why this is so, but I think one consistent reason is that teenagers see their parents and people in church live...
Polyamory for All!
The gay "marriage" ruling, the gift that keeps on giving. As one headline read: "‘Sister Wives’ family points to same-sex marriage cases in arguing against Utah polygamy ban." Of course they would, and they would be perfectly logical to do so. In fact, the Obergefell...
Notable Quotation
We are relearning that marriage is not optional. The evidence started piling up in 1965 with Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s report on the breakdown of the African-American family. In 2012, Charles Murray took us on a walk through Fishtown where we met a white (often...