Can Christians build a perfect society on earth? If not, does that mean that we do nothing to battle the evils in society and improve the world around us? Shouldn’t we at least try? How about in our personal lives? We must strive to obey
Can Christians build a perfect society on earth? If not, does that mean that we do nothing to battle the evils in society and improve the world around us? Shouldn’t we at least try? How about in our personal lives? We must strive to obey
One of the differences in Western Christianity, in both its Catholic and Protestant versions, and Eastern Christianity, the Orthodox tradition, is their positions on the relationship between the church and the state. Specifically, Orthodoxy emphasizes a radical submission to the earthly rulers. Whereas in Western
Amazon Prime is producing a television series based on J. R. R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth, a prequel to The Lord of the Rings, drawing on the author’s voluminous tales of his imaginary world. Amazon paid the Tolkien estate $250 million for the rights, and the budget
April 6 is the Day of Commemoration in the Lutheran calendar for artists Lucas Cranach (1472-1557) and Albrecht Dürer (b. 1471, who died on April 6, 1528). (Anglicans honor them, along with Matthias Grünewald, on August 5). Since Cranach is the patron of this blog, we need to
Knud Skov, a confessional Lutheran from Denmark, sent me an essay that he had written about the origins of current assumptions about oppression, sex, and gender. I thought that what he says about the Frankfurt School, Michel Foucault, and Judith Butler would be of interest
Writer and radio host Dennis Prager has written a hilarious–but also dead serious–essay entitled How the Left Keeps Me Religious. Prager, who is Jewish, said that he isn’t a particularly “spiritual” person. But that the Godless left puts forward such absurd beliefs, is so morally blind,
The United States of America is not a democracy. And it was never supposed to be. Our constitutional order has built in protections against majority rule, lest the greater numbers run roughshod over individuals, minorities, and holders of unpopular ideas. Among those safeguards against democracy
The magazine Interest Time has a special issue on vocation. The lead article “Vocation: How God Provides for Us” by Demian Farnworth is an excellent introduction to the concept. The issue also includes an interview with me, in which, among other things, I tell how I
I heard Gram Parsons’ song “In My Hour of Darkness” on the radio the other day and it has been haunting me ever since. Parsons was the Sixties musician who discovered traditional country music, bringing the two genres together through his involvement with the Byrds and
The European Union has passed a new copyright law that has the potential to fundamentally change–if not eliminate–the internet as we have known it. Article 11 of the EU Copyright Directive targets the big news aggregators like Google News and The Drudge Report. It would
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