Category: WORLDVIEW & CULTURE
Book Fire!
I love this old photo. How we need knowledge and the best wisdom of the ages! Making books available for children, for instance, is a critical work for creating an orderly and educated society. One wonders, with the advent of social media, if this is still...
False Teachers: What to Do with the Poison in the Water
In telling the fictitious story of Barnabas Sackett coming on a ship from England to America in the 1600s, Louis L’Amour describes Sackett’s shipmates like this: “They were rascals, no question of that, and a dirty, poisonous lot, enough to kill the fish for miles if...
Should Christians Care for the Environment?
If you’re a political conservative in America, topics like environmentalism and animal treatment may make you bristle. To me at least, these were always “liberal” issues. They didn’t fit into the current conservative platform in our two-party system and so I assumed that I should not...
Charlatans, Heretics, and One-trick Ponies: The Danger of Theological Distractions
The Christian life is fraught with danger. There are the external dangers—overt persecution from those who hate Christ and would see his followers physically hindered, maligned, imprisoned, even killed. Then there are threats of a more insidious nature, doing their damage inside the mind of the...
Technology Addiction: Will We Do Anything about It?
The addictive power of technology. It’s like ivy on the edifice of our culture, every day growing stronger and finding more and more places to thrive. Today, wherever we go—to work, to school, to the park, to the bathroom, to bed—our technology goes with us to...
By Faith We Understand
The god of Science rules with an iron fist today. If Science says it’s true, then it’s true. If Science says it’s false, then it’s false. If Science is silent or ignorant on a particular subject, then silent or ignorant we must be as well—that is,...
YOLO
Figuring out the text-messaging code can be daunting for us older folks. As an example of the generational disconnect, the following text exchange is reported to have taken place between a mother and her teenage son: Mom’s question to her son: “What does IDK TTYL mean?”...
The Great Work of God: Rain
But as for me, I would seek God, And I would place my cause before God; Who does great and unsearchable things, wonders without number. He gives rain on the earth, And sends water on the fields. (Job 5:8-10)If you said to someone: “My God does...
Should Christians Read The Quran?
I was recently asked if I had read The Quran, the foundational book of the religion known as Islam. The person asking was a Muslim (i.e., an adherent to Islam), and was concerned that I should check out Islam as another way to God before settling...
Should Christians Pursue the Arts?
I re-skimmed George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss last week. It has had a startlingly deep affect on me over these days—searching far into caves of feeling, and engendering a few meditative walks. Its themes have turned my mind to consider why it is that...
