Some say we are in a new golden age of television, as streaming technology makes available a host of programs for every taste. So what shows have you enjoyed that might also appeal to your fellow Cranach subscribers?
Some say we are in a new golden age of television, as streaming technology makes available a host of programs for every taste. So what shows have you enjoyed that might also appeal to your fellow Cranach subscribers?
Americans increasingly only live near and interact with people similar to themselves. This contributes to our polarization. But Bill Bishop, who has chronicled this phenomenon, has found that living in a small town provides for a more healthy experience of true diversity.
What is a citizen? A rational, self-governing individual, so that the political task consists largely of debate and persuasion? Or a potential victim whom the government must protect from harm by imposing controls?
British novelist Paul Kingsnorth has written "an essay-length account of my journey from atheism to Orthodox Christianity, via Buddhism, witchcraft and other strange twists." In doing so, he shows how Christianity can still be compelling to a "spiritual but not religious" secularist.
In a penetrating critique of contemporary culture, the novelist Paul Kingsnorth argues that the Christian influence on civilization is giving way to its opposite, with catastrophic results.
Sunday is Pentecost, following close upon Ascension Day last Thursday. Both mark extraordinarily important events for Christians, but both seem to have fallen in some neglect. Why is that?
Have you read any books lately that might be of interest to kindred spirits in the Cranach community?
There are two poles of contemporary thought--evident in academic philosophy departments, ordinary people's differences of opinion, and the ministry of the church--though both are alien to the Christian worldview. One insists that truth can only be established by the canons of scientific rationalism. The other insists that truth--or, rather "truth-claims"--are historically conditioned.
We usually assume that threats to Christianity come from the outside--the forces of secularism, postmodernism, the sexual revolution, etc., etc.--but what about threats to Christianity from the inside? One observer , reflecting on the scandals in the church, maintains that churches have become the biggest obstacle to religion.
The killer at Uvalde, Texas, didn't seem to have anything against the fourth graders he murdered. It was nothing personal. And that, I would suggest, is part of the problem. The killer didn't see his victims as persons. They were objects. Targets. Such dehumanizing is cultivated throughout our culture of death.
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