The epigraph of my new book, "Post-Christian: A Guide to Contemporary Thought and Culture," is an astonishing passage from William Shakespeare, who in 1601 predicted how things would be 400 years later and what will happen next. Rejecting objective order, he wrote, will reduce everything to power, will, and appetite. This will constitute a "universal wolf" that will devour everything, but then it will devour itself.
My new book from Crossway has been released. It's entitled "Post-Christian: A Guide to Contemporary Thought and Culture." A sequel to my 1994 book "Postmodern Times," "Post-Christian" explores the different manifestations of secularism, including their dead-ends and how Christianity offers a way forward. It also looks ahead to what scholars are already heralding as the "post-secular."
The impeachment proceedings seem like a low point in American politics. Both sides can agree on that. A historian points to another time of political dysfunction, institutional failure, and cultural corruption. Those troubles brought about a reaction known as the Renaissance.
The medical journal Lancet has published a positive review of a book that associates the health problems of America's white working class--opioid addiction, alcoholism, liver disease, heart problems, and suicide--with gun ownership, racism, and right wing politics. It then ties them all together into a diagnosis of "whiteness."
A vital, growing church has lots of young families. A church in Minnesota wants to be that kind of congregation. So it is kicking out its current, long-term members who are over the age of 60.
The movie "1917" appears to have been photographed in one long continuous shot, without the frenetic editing of most contemporary movies. A film critic admits that his attention span has become so short, thanks to his conditioning by today's technology and the pace of contemporary life, that he cannot handle "1917." His whole life is fragmented into short, unrelated experiences that he tries to edit together. What are the consequences of this sensibility and how can we counter it?
As scholars have been demonstrating, Christianity has played a major role in the rise of modern science. This is especially true of the Reformation, which, as Peter Harrison shows, had a formative influence in its methods, content, and significance. He notes the particular impact of the doctrine of vocation.
If power and privilege are always oppressive, as postmodern critical theorists maintain, then God, whose power and privilege are unlimited, must be the ultimate oppressor. But God's creative power is different from human power. And He reveals Himself and saves us by dying on a Cross.
In discussing the drop in the fertility rate in the affluent, well-educated demographic, Joy Pullman gives young married couples nine reasons for having children. "The truth is," she concludes, "children are a reliably excellent investment in your long-term personal development and happiness." Her reasons are meaningful not only to prospective parents but also to veteran parents looking back on it all.
Acts 25-26 tells of Paul's appearance before Agrippa, the king of Judaea, and his sister Bernice. I came across an article that tells "the rest of the story" about Bernice, who has been called the Jewish queen of Rome. With her relationship with the future emperor Titus--the very man who destroyed Jerusalem and the Temple--many Romans feared that she could establish a Jewish imperial dynasty.
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