The World Council of Churches (WCC) in Geneva claims to represent and serve 345 churches worldwide. What has it done to help the persecuted churches in Iraq, Syria and Egypt? Or the flood of Syrian refugees into Jordan and Lebanon? Answer: it has devoted the whole of 2013 to promoting a World Week for Peace in Palestine Israel (September 22-28). That is, it has poured its Swiss francs into stirring up the one corner of the area that is currently... Read more

We don’t need to know that God exists to know good from bad. It is enough to know human nature—what kind of being we are and what kind of actions will bring us to fullness of being. http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2013/10/10994/?utm_source=RTA+Kemp+Religion&utm_campaign=winstorg&utm_medium=email Read more

“I do not believe that we are going to heaven together, but I do believe we may go to jail together,” said R. Albert Mohler during a speech to nearly 400 students and faculty in an almost-full Varsity Theater in the Wilkinson Student Center. http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865588850/At-BYU-Baptist-says-Mormons-and-evangelicals-may-go-to-jail-together.html?pg=all Read more

Mollie Hemingway America’s embrace of low fertility rates is becoming a problem. http://thefederalist.com/2013/10/22/fecundophobia-growing-fear-children-fertile-women/ Read more

The Victorian roots of evangelical Zionism By Gertrude Himmelfarb http://mosaicmagazine.com/supplemental/2013/10/before-pastor-hagee/?utm_source=Mosaic+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=a0aa17d753-Mosaic_2013_10_22&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0b0517b2ab-a0aa17d753-41159925 Read more

Gerald R. McDermott A new battle is brewing over the future of Evangelical theology. Roger Olsen, Evangelical theologian at Baylor University’s Truett Seminary, protests in a recent article that some Evangelicals (especially me in a recent article in the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society) misunderstand “liberal theology.” We think, he says, that liberal theology “is a good label for any deviation from orthodoxy.” So we wrongly label, he says, “any deviation from or attempt to re-form orthodox Christian tradition... Read more

Wilfred McClay Several years ago, I gave a lecture at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) on the subject of religion and secularism. Afterward, the discussion continued at a relaxed and intimate dinner for selected guests—an occasion greatly enlivened by the presence of the late Irving Kristol, then an AEI senior fellow, and his wife Gertrude Himmelfarb, the distinguished historian. As usual, Irving had plenty to say. In particular, when the subject turned to the distinctive character of evangelical Christianity, he... Read more

When we think of David and Goliath, we think of a young man, not very big, who has a fight with a terrifying opponent, and wins. We think of David as puny and Goliath as towering and strong — not to mention heavily armed. We see David’s victory as something that happened against all odds. The story of David and Goliath is, as Malcolm Gladwell puts it, ‘a metaphor for improbable victory’. Well, that’s how we think about it, anyway.... Read more

Faith-based dorms at secular universities offer a positive alternative to the indoctrination and debasement present on many campuses. http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2013/10/11021/ Read more

Sir Michael was clear about the root cause of children’s problems today: hollowed out and fragmented families, where the relationship between mother and father has broken down or never existed in the first place. https://www.embooks.com/blog/single/broken-families-broken-Britain Read more