How the Image of God Offers Freedom
If Christians had truly believed that black people were made in the image of God, just as much as white people were, that Africans were made in the image of God, just as much as Europeans were, there wouldn’t have been anything to abolish.
It’s right for us to look back at the heroes of the faith, who fought for biblical values when it comes to human equality and who fought against slavery. But we must also reckon with the sins of our same sort of spiritual ancestors who didn’t. Because the imago Dei had to kill slavery twice.... Continue Reading
The Turning Tide of Intellectual Atheism
The survival of Christianity is essential for the survival of the West.
“It disturbs me that in so many ways, totalitarianism is gaining ground today,” Ferguson said. “Totalitarianism was bad for many reasons, and one of the manifestations of its badness was its attack on religion. When I see totalitarianism gaining ground not only in China but in subtle ways in our own society, that seems to... Continue Reading
How A 10-Year-Old Girl’s Mom Saved Her From Going Transgender
Mindy’s mother demonstrated how parents can release a child from the grip of a “gender dysphoria” diagnosis.
By Mindy’s own admission, she’s not trans. Her former therapist was attempting to manufacture a transgender child out of an overwhelmed ten-year-old who needed friends after changing schools. Happily, the parents put a stop to that madness. Unfortunately, for thousands more, their stories don’t end so well. When I appeared on a Heritage Foundation panel... Continue Reading
Critical Race Theory: Civil Rights Upside Down
There is only one foundation for universal respect and justice: the intrinsic value of each human being made in the image of God.
That is the evil of racism, and it is evil no matter who practices it. The injustice of racism must be addressed, but you cannot fight injustice with injustice. Bigotry by any other name is still bigotry. It is still evil. It is still sin. And no Christian should participate in it, condone it, or... Continue Reading
Brave New World or 1984?
As the West realized that history was still ongoing, that there are real dangers out there, and that real evil really exists, the response was not to return to our Christian roots but rather to hide our collective heads in the sand.
I have long pondered whether Brave New World or 1984 was more plausible as the fate of the West. But just the other day it finally dawned on me that the right answer to this question is not one or the other: it is both! We are headed to Brave New World by way of 1984. They are not alternatives but sequential... Continue Reading
The Injustice of Social Justice. Why Woke Social Justice Is Antibiblical
While biblical justice is at the forefront of championing the innocent, the downtrodden, the weak, the poor, the widow and the orphan, it doesn’t give one’s “oppression” status as an excuse for that person to do evil or to have a different standard of judgment.
In general, God demands blindness to age, ethnic group, and sex, in the sense that it assumes all humans are equal in their status of humanness. This is why a consistent biblical worldview is opposed to partiality, slavery, and abortion. Also, the biblical worldview tempers authentic justice with mercy and forgiveness. In woke social justice,... Continue Reading
When a Free Society Becomes a Police State
“What I have, this place gave me. I will fight on till the last day. It will be an honour if I...sacrifice.” - Jimmy Lai
Perhaps you read all of this and think the following: The Chinese Communist Party is terrible. We hear horrific stories out of China all the time. About how the CCP is carrying out a genocide against Uyghur Muslims and how it is staging videos of people pretending to be happy Uyghurs in an attempt to conceal the... Continue Reading
What Are Bodies For? Beyond Bathrooms and Women’s Sports
We are called to embrace the richer, original diversity of male and female as truly liberating, beautiful, and wonderfully erotic.
Thankfully, there is an alternative to gender ideology’s discordant dualism. When gendered embodiment is treasured, maleness and femaleness are understood not as acts we perform, but as our very bodily essence. Being a man or a woman is not simply what one does, it is who one is. This releases men and women from unhealthy and unrealistic gender stereotypes, past or present.... Continue Reading
Why Reading Books You Disagree With Helps You Grow
As you grow more comfortable with ideas, you can expose yourself to contrary positions in order to strengthen your own.
One of the joys of reading is growing in knowledge about the world around us, including those to whom we are called to minister and share the hope of the gospel with. But a second and extremely important reason behind reading things we disagree agree with is for our own personal growth. Over the years,... Continue Reading
The Uselessness of Critical Race Theory for the Christian Mind
The world might do it’s usual work of hate and division, but as for us, we will have none of it.
As soon as someone says “critical race theory implies this… “ someone else will say it implies that, and another that it implies something else because it is made of wax and has little in the way of formal or solid foundations for its applications or interpretation. It could mean almost anything under the right... Continue Reading
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