What Paul means when he warns against Christians saying they follow Paul, Apollos, Cephas, or Christ.
What Paul means when he warns against Christians saying they follow Paul, Apollos, Cephas, or Christ.
Satire has a long pedigree as a conservative literary form. But social media sites are trying to cancel the Christian and conservative satire site "The Babylon Bee," branding its cutting humor as "right wing disinformation."
New research on religion in America has some surprising findings that go against the conventional wisdom. It contains both good news and bad news for conservative Christians.
C. S. Forester's novel "The Good Shepherd" (made into the Tom Hanks movie "The Greyhound"), is about a Lutheran destroyer captain during World War II. It is also about vocation, which is also a major theme in Forester's "Hornblower" series.
Our Constitution is getting in the way of certain progressive proposals, and the Founders have been discredited. So a new constitution has been drafted for our consideration.
Conservatives complain about liberalism. But so do a dominant faction of progressives. In fact, they consider liberalism to be racist. The new woke progressivism is being called "successor ideology."
The number of Christians may be shrinking in the United States and Western Europe, but Christianity is growing like wildfire in much of the rest of the world. And particularly in regions where it would seem to have the most difficulty. Such as the Islamic Republic of Iran. "Newsweek" documents what is, despite intense persecution, the fastest-growing church in the world.
Two bloggers write about "eucatastrophe," "the sudden and unexpected occurrence of something deeply good." The concept, coined by J. R. R. Tolkien, happens in literature and in real life. And it testifies to something more.
The Bible says that pride goeth before a fall. The Greeks said that pride causes the fall. They called it "hubris," the tragic flaw that brings down the hero in a classical tragedy. As a writer observes, the concept also accounts for many of our national and personal failures.
We experts know what to do. But the People--the ignorant masses empowered by democracy--get in the way of our solutions. Eliminating democracy is the only way to solve our problems. That's what we're hearing from a wide range of sources, heralding a new kind of radical ideology.
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