This weekend's discussion relates to vocation. Are we working too much? Some places are experimenting with four-day workweeks or six hour workdays. Might cutting back on our economic vocations give us time for our other vocations in the family, church, and state?
Blacks and Hispanics are religiously more like Republicans than white Democrats. As the party becomes more and more secularist and committed to progressive culture war issues, they are alienating an important part of their base. This helps account for the "great realignment" in American politics. So says one political analyst.
Democrats are getting worried about a political realignment, as their base becomes whiter and more affluent, while the working class, Blacks, and, especially, Hispanics are shifting to the Republicans. These voters are struggling with the economy and care little for progressive culture war issues.
Christianity is true. But it is not just head-knowledge, nor is it just heart-knowledge. Joshua Pauling says we should recover the full sense of Christian reality by emphasizing the Biblical concepts of "mysterion," "koinonia", and "kairos." In doing so, we can revive contemporary Christianity and reach non-believers more effectively.
Sri Lanka was once one of the most highly-developed nations in South Asia. But now it has an inflation rate of 54%, widespread hunger, and a collapsing government. A major factor was a law mandating organic agriculture, outlawing chemical fertilizers and pesticides. This has devastated the nation's food production and agricultural exports, leading to an economic and political implosion.
Christians today can be pessimistic about their prospects in the face of the seeming triumph of progressivism and secularism. But they need to factor in how God can break in, often in surprising ways. And they can also factor in the self-destructiveness of sin and false beliefs. Culture changes, often very rapidly, and it can change in ways favorable to Christianity, as well as unfavorable.
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Carl Trueman writes about why the church has lost its reputation and its moral authority--both with the general public and its own members--and suggests what Christians should do about it.
A Muslim woman explains why a Muslim's identity can only be based on religion, not on particular desires. And why "queer Muslims do not exist." Not that some Muslims don't struggle with same-sex desires, but because "queerness" involves adhering to an ideology that is incompatible with Islam. Furthermore, Western efforts to impose the LGBT agenda is inherently racist and colonialist.
Only one out of five Americans believe the Bible is the "actual word of God, to be taken literally." And only one out of four Christians do. And only two out of five evangelicals.
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