Policy-making may be useful for cleaning the outside of the cup, but the problem is the inside, the spiritual. We need godly politicians, but we need real preachers far more.   Our world is prone to spiritual slumber. It always has been, and until that trumpet blast at Christ’s return, it sadly shall be. But... Continue Reading

“A Great Awakening” portrays Whitefield as a faithful proclaimer of the good news of liberty in Jesus’ blood and righteousness, and makes the organic connection between The Great Awakening, the American Revolution, and the Constitutional Convention quite apparent.   Lesley and I just returned home from seeing the premier showing of the movie, “A Great... Continue Reading

In producing these videos, our goal has not been primarily polemical. We are not seeking to defend the Covenanters in any systematic or thorough way from the claims of historians unfriendly to their aims and sceptical of their character or methods. … Rather, our goal has been to introduce the outline of the Covenanter story,... Continue Reading

The computer was sold to us as a “bicycle for the mind”: something to help us get more done and become more fit in the process, a productivity enhancer that also made us work harder. And perhaps it was for a short sweet spot in the 80s and 90s. But successive waves of digitization have given us... Continue Reading

Off School Property corrects the record about the separation of church and state as applied to America’s government-run schools. In 1952, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that teaching the Bible during the school day was, in fact, legal, if it was privately funded, conducted off school property, and done with parental permission. LifeWise Academy has... Continue Reading

The child’s touch brings his mother back to life. Children have a way of doing that, don’t they? The theme of life. The value of life permeates every action and reaction in the film.   The new Fantastic Four film is, in a word, fantastic. Its 1950s futuristic aesthetic was charming, with a dash of... Continue Reading

God has called us to this moment in history. We are not mere victims of the mindless forces of history, as secularists believe. Truth Rising explains both the civilizational moment and how Christians can be people of courage and agents of renewal.   Historian and philosopher Will Durant, author of the epic eleven-volume series The... Continue Reading

The success of the Bible in pop culture is evidence that, as much as we may try to reject it in our sin and cultural rebellions, this Story of the world cannot be fully suppressed. We need not update, massage, embellish, or water down the message of the Bible. It’s already the best Story in... Continue Reading

This could be nothing more than Disney capitalizing on the success of “Wicked.” It’s a formula: take a villain, make them sympathetic. Or it could be an extension of something much deeper in our culture that is just now reaching our classic villains of fiction.   A new live show debuts later this month at... Continue Reading

Adolescence suffers from the fact that it earnestly wants to be About too many things at once: About Masculinity, About Cyberbullying, About Knife Crime, and of course, About Adolescence. Further, it wants to treat all these things while deliberately filtering out all the considerations of familial dysfunction, mental illness, abuse, or ethnoreligious culture clash that... Continue Reading