World Magazine — Janie B. Cheaney If I’m supposed to be the light of the world, why do I feel like a dim bulb? If I’m supposed to be the salt of the earth, why do I taste like cream of wheat? Since the 1970s Christians have been deploring the state of the culture and [...]
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Dispensationalists often speak of culturally-concerned postmillennialism as entailing a misguided primary focus for the Church. This is due to their radical misunderstanding not only of the nature of the kingdom, but the postmillennial view of the essential focus of the gospel and the wide-reaching nature of redemption. They claim our “view of dominion is misdirected. Only [...]
Full Story »Religion News Service — When her 91-year-old aunt passed away in 2010, Diane DiResta videotaped the eulogies to create a record of the moving words spoken. She wasn’t ready to talk about her aunt at the service, so she used an online tool for publishing audio to record her thoughts, then e-mailed the audio file [...]
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Postmillennialism is an important element in a holistic theology and a full-orbed Christian worldview. In such a worldview that is seriously committed to Scripture, postmillennialism promotes cultural endeavors to the glory of God. Thus, postmillennialism has real world implications. It does not offer hope only in the spiritual realm or in eternity, but here and [...]
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Postmillennialists are strongly committed to the cultural mandate. We believe God calls his people to engage all areas of human culture in seeking to glorify God. This includes the visual arts. In the last three articles I gave a brief defense of artistic representations of Christ. In this second-to-last article I will interact with two [...]
Full Story »New York Times — When I listen to President Obama speak to and about women, he sometimes sounds too paternalistic for my taste. In numerous appearances over the years — most recently at the Barnard graduation — he has made reference to how women are smarter than men. It’s all so tired, the kind of [...]
Full Story »I oppose same sex marriage. I am agnostic on the extent to which human activities contribute to global warming or climate change and whether the phenomena themselves warrant the major economic dislocations that are proposed as remedies. In both cases, my positions appear to be at substantial distance from the opinions that prevail in American [...]
Full Story »The nation’s Roman Catholic bishops are reviewing the church’s long-standing ties to the Girl Scouts of the USA after complaints that some of that venerable organization’s programs might contradict church teachings on contraception and abortion. The inquiry by the Catholic bishops has been ongoing for two years and was prompted by persistent reports, circulated on [...]
Full Story »Worthy News — A federal judge in Virginia proposed that a dispute over the display of the Ten Commandments at a public high school be resolved by removing the four Commandments that mention God. “If indeed this issue is not about God,” said U.S. District Judge Michael Urbanski during mediation, “why wouldn’t it make sense [...]
Full Story »Greeley Gazette — Two psychologists testified before a parliamentary session on a bill related to sexual assault on children that pedophilia is a “sexual orientation” just like homosexuality or heterosexuality. Lifesitenews reported on the testimony at a parliamentary session in Canada regarding a bill intended to increase mandatory minimum sentences on child sex offenders for [...]
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KINGDOM LEAVENThe Parable of the Leaven reads: "The kingdom of heaven is like leaven, which a woman took and hid i...
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