Wars and Rumors of Wars

The top headline of the past few weeks has been the saber-rattling out of Moscow. This week, Russian leader Vladimir Putin stepped even closer to waging war against Ukraine. On Monday, Russian troops entered the country, and Moscow formally recognized the pro-Russian breakaway parts of Ukraine as independent states (independent of Ukraine, that is)… READ … More Wars and Rumors of Wars

Human Augmentation vs. Restoration

Last year, the U.K. and German ministries of defense released a joint statement entitled “Human Augmentation: the Dawn of a New Paradigm.” The statement explored the future of technology that seeks to “enhance” people beyond the limits of biology, especially for military purposes. According to the article, it’s not a question of “whether” human enhancement … More Human Augmentation vs. Restoration

Salvation is More than Just Going to Heaven

This is more than being saved from Hell, and it’s even more than being saved to eternal life.  In the historical dockyards at Chatham in England is the largest collection of Royal National lifeboats in the U.K.. On many of the lifeboats, printed numbers show how many times the boat has launched, and how many lives it saved. It’s a haunting … More Salvation is More than Just Going to Heaven

Immunizing Students from Bad Ideas

Many Christian parents worry about passing on the faith to their children. Sadly, statistics suggest they should. In 2020, the Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University found that just 2% of millennials, a generation now well into adulthood, have a biblical worldview. That’s the lowest of any generation since surveys began. Lifeway Research reports that two-thirds of … More Immunizing Students from Bad Ideas

A Gaian Interpretation of COVID and the World

If you ever watched the movie Avatar, in it they call their planet’s soul Eywa. This is a classic example of Gaianism Before the Glasgow climate summit in November, British ecologist and futurist James Lovelock wrote an opinion piece in The Guardian, entitled “Beware: Gaia may destroy humans before we destroy the Earth.”   “Gaia” is the ancient Greek … More A Gaian Interpretation of COVID and the World

Our Christian Witness

Since the contentious 2016 election, many have publicly questioned whether evangelical support for Donald Trump “hurts the Church’s witness.” Others assert that to vote for anyone but Donald Trump warrants excommunication. Over the last two years of the pandemic and all its associated controversies, some have confidently proclaimed that if Christians choose to not wear a mask or not be fully vaccinated … More Our Christian Witness

America Has a Trust Problem

“Trust is to capitalism what alcohol is to wedding receptions,” suggests Jerry Useem in an article in The Atlantic last November, “a social lubricant… ‘If trust is sufficiently low,’” he continues, quoting economists Paul Zak and Stephen Knack, “‘economic growth is unachievable.’” Public trust, specifically of the federal government, began to erode in the 1960s… READ MORE > … More America Has a Trust Problem

Faithfully Different

“Christians” are called to have a “Biblical World View”, this article points out some of the issues face in such a task today. It should go without saying that, in 21st century America, most of the assumptions at work in contemporary culture are not Christian assumptions. And whatever new “normal” is, it’s constantly changing, it’s anything but worldview neutral. As my … More Faithfully Different

Redefining ‘Parent’ is Bad for Kids

In case you haven’t heard, Major League Baseball is in the middle of a lockout. Later this week, the players’ union will meet with team owners to negotiate new contracts, hopefully in time for spring training. Imagine if all of this haggling over salaries and contracts and terms happened without the players being at the table? What … More Redefining ‘Parent’ is Bad for Kids