More on Shepherds for Sale
Basham’s new book deserves careful reading.
“No one, least of all Christians, should welcome civil war in the Church. But too many Church leaders have grown arrogant due to the rank and file’s reluctance to seem unpleasant or uncharitable by confronting their deceit and manipulation, and a unity based on acceptance of false teaching is a unity of the damned. As... Continue Reading
Take Your Doubts about God to God
Take It to the Lord in Prayer
When Jeremiah doubted, he did not try to solve his problems on his own. Instead, he committed his cause to the Lord. For him, this meant praying that his cause would be vindicated. Our case may be different, but the principle is the same: if we believe that God is with us and has the... Continue Reading
Two Things Nearly Everyone Believes About the Universe
God’s Crime Scene: A Cold-Case Detective Examines the Evidence for a Divinely Created Universe.
I hope God’s Crime Scene can help you answer this question by employing a number of very simple investigative tools detectives use every day. Criminal investigators recognize one important evidential truth: the identity of a suspect must account for all the evidence “in the room”. Whatever caused the origin of our universe must also account for all the other evidence we... Continue Reading
Scruton on the Death of England
On mourning what we have lost.
Roger Scruton often wrote about his beloved England and how he was witnessing its tragic collapse. In 2000 he penned England: An Elegy (Bloomsbury). While focusing on just this one nation, much of what he says there can be applied to other parts of the West. Here I simply want to offer some quotes from the volume.... Continue Reading
The Fragility of Idols and the Security of the Savior
While the human longing for security and stability is as old as humanity itself, we are living in a cultural moment where safety and security remain in the forefront of our minds and in the foreground of conversations.
Once we are aware of our own fault lines, we seek to reinforce these places with the sturdy, immovable, unchangeable words of Scripture. Grass withers, flowers fade, and false centers shake, but the Word of God stands forever (Isaiah 40:8). We would do well to listen to the advice of writer of Hebrews to those... Continue Reading
Christian Institutions in a New World
Book Review—"Religion & Republic: Christian America from the Founding to the Civil War"
Miles Smith’s book is an excellent reminder that conservatives should never prioritize an idealized individual or nation. Rather, we must work to preserve those institutions that point us to better lives. Liberalism has not been wanting for obituaries in recent years. Academics such as Patrick Deneen have argued at length that the American experiment... Continue Reading
A Proof for God’s Existence
If change occurs, God exists. If anything exists, God must exist, and be upholding all else in existence. God cannot not exist.
Some may not be used to thinking of God as an unmoved mover. Yet is not the first cause of all things God? If God is anything He is that. But many more attributes may be derived from the unmoved mover being pure act, which will show that we are dealing with God. This is... Continue Reading
How Do I Serve Without Becoming a Doormat?
Biblical servitude seeks to model Jesus’s demeanor.
Biblical servitude seeks what’s best for the other person over what the other person wants in the moment. To do this effectively, you need to be confident in your knowledge of God’s Word. You need to be seeking to daily grow in wisdom. It doesn’t need to be a “my will versus your will” situation.... Continue Reading
Children and Bad Therapy
Our kids need good parenting, not ‘experts’ and endless medication.
Really loving your child might well mean telling the experts to get out of the way – or telling the drug pushers to butt out because there might be better ways to proceed. And good parenting will often mean just letting our kids be kids: letting them learn by trial and error, by failure, by... Continue Reading
The Christian Nationalist Panic
Though I have held out hope that the “Christian nationalism” discourse would start to die down as its shortcomings became evident, I presently see no signs of such relief.
Christianity should not only influence what we support but also how we engage in the political sphere, namely, in a spirit of humility, charity, and good-faith deliberation. Christians should reject Christian nationalism, but not allow the moral panic surrounding it to shame them out of fully engaging in the public square, and doing so as... Continue Reading
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