Mar 5, 2020 | Culture
It’s become a cliche that we live in a “post-Christian” culture. This is shown in obvious hostility to Christians and their faith, but more perniciously when Christianity and God are ignored as if they are completely irrelevant to existence. The latter provides the most danger to our faith at the same time it provides the many opportunities to help strengthen it. The recently ended NBC series The Good Place is an example of both. It’s kind of funny, really, that in a show purportedly about the afterlife that God was persona non grata. We watched every episode of all four seasons, and I’m pretty sure the divine being didn’t even make a cameo. We can conclude, then, that God is not relevant to life, death, or even what comes after death. That’s the danger, that people think such a view of reality is reasonable and plausible, and go along their merry way without a thought of the judgment to come. But it’s also a great opportunity because you see how shallow, weak, and hopeless such a view really is. Ultimately, the ending shows us just how clueless the writers are without God’s revelation to them in creation, Scripture, and Christ. (more…)
Feb 8, 2020 | Culture
I rarely get political here because my passion is to defend the veracity of the Christian faith, as I have to my children all their lives, and to rest of my brothers and sisters in Christ. But I feel I must in this case get political because I’m weary of left-wing, progressive, liberal (whatever) Christians thinking they stand in some politically transcendent place where they can condemn their conservative brethren for their moral profligacy of supporting President Trump. I was driven to write by a recent piece at Christianity Today by Scott McKnight, although I’ve encountered many such screeds directed at people like me, and the rest of Evangelical Trump supporters. (more…)
Jan 26, 2020 | Culture
You already know I only have one daughter, but she’s still my favorite! She’s a champion for classical education, and a lower school academic dean at a charter classical school. She wrote an e-mail to parents recently, and I thought is was an excellent introduction to a mode of education that I pray becomes ever more widespread in America. I believe America as founded might just depend on it. If you are not familiar with classical education, and it’s value to educating children, please read on: (more…)
Jan 22, 2020 | Culture
Most Americans have never heard of Jim Elliot, the young man who died as a missionary in the jungles of Ecuador on January 8, 1956. Many Evangelical Christians have, and as something of a hero for his sacrifice to take the faith to the Indians in the jungles of Ecuador. What he, and his four companions did, giving their lives to take Christ where he had not been preached, appears completely insane to the modern secularist. Since this life is all their is, and since we can’t really know that it isn’t, we need to do everything we can to avert all risk, and squeeze every last second out of it we can. As Christians, this secularist mentality ought to be anathema to us, but too often it isn’t. The all pervasive influence of the secular culture all too easily turns us into secularists, but it doesn’t have to. (more…)
Nov 24, 2019 | Culture
I came across an article today FrontPageMAG that revealed Chick-fil-A’s cave to leftist bullies is much worse than I wrote about in my last post. The title and subtitle of the FrontPage piece says it all: “Chick-fil-A Put an Obama and Hillary Supporter in Charge, but Dumped Christians: Money for social justice and Muslim refugees, but not for the Salvation Army.” I’ll put some quotes below, but you’ll want to read the entire piece. I promise, Chick-fil-A will never taste the same. If we knew what was going on, we would not at all been surprised by last Monday’s announcement. (more…)
Nov 21, 2019 | Culture
By now you’ve surely heard that the Chick-fil-A Foundation, the arm of the chicken giant ($10.5 billion in revenue and growing fast) that gives money to various causes, has changed its giving mission. Part of the announcement included the news that they will no longer give money to the Salvation Army, and the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. The reason is obvious. These organizations are unapologetically Christian, and support the biblical view of sexual morality (I’ll give the context below). This was disappointing when I first read about it Tuesday morning, but far worse than I first thought. I realized this as I read a piece in PR Week this morning titled, Did Chick-fil-A Make the Right Move? Uh . . . nope. (more…)
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