Heraclitus once wrote that “War is both father and king of all,” and “all things come to pass through the compulsion of strife.” According to the pessimistic, pre-Socratic philosopher, conflict in the world was not only inevitable, but necessary. It also existed in two planes, the vertical and the horizontal, “Gods and men: living in each other’s death, dying in each other’s life.” War, father and king of us all, was the fundamental nature of nature according to Heraclitus. It was... Read more
I admit, suggesting Tucker Carlson is a “Prophet for our Times” is a fairly “click-baity” title. However, I am going to answer the question it poses with some substance. This should mitigate the provocative nature of its wording, and show it to be warranted. As such, I am writing this article for two reasons. First, because I think it is true that Carlson is prophetic for out times. Second, because what Carlson has been pointing out publicly, on his very... Read more
Read Time: 10 minutes Beltane is a pagan, Gaelic feast day that originated among the ancient Irish and is still celebrated in parts of Ireland, England and Scotland. It is traditionally held on or around May 1st and has enjoyed a renaissance of sorts in the last few decades with the rise of Neo-paganism in the West. I won’t go into great detail about the particularities of Beltane. You can just type a query into Chat GPT for a reasonably... Read more
Read Time: 15 minutes Recently, two of my favorite cultural commentators, Dennis Prager (a *conservative Jew) and Matt Fradd (a traditional Roman Catholic), sat down to talk about pornography. The discussion, which at times was actual debate, was good in many respects. Both men were able to articulate descent positions on both the dangers and evils of pornography and the sin of adultery. But, where there was a substantive difference, was on the issue of lust itself. This disagreement on what... Read more
Read Time: 8 minutes There is a group in our culture that has become increasingly marginalized, dismissed and demonized by Evangelicals over the last several years. That group is the community of angry people, especially angry Christians. Angry people have been consistently mistreated, misrepresented and maligned by both Church and society. They are often labelled as “extremist,” “abusive,” “mean” and, worst of all, “unloving” by those considered to be socially acceptable. Conservative Christians especially, but progressives as well, are notorious... Read more
Read Time: 15 minutes To say Protestant churches in America have lost their way is almost trite. Anyone with eyes to see or ears to hear knows that while not all is lost — it never is — American Evangelicalism is experiencing something of a crisis. A moment of cultural upheaval is upon the Church, and we must recognize the nature of that upheaval and respond to it with great urgency. Other than the preaching of the Gospel, there is... Read more
As we enter into Easter week, my exhortation to all who read these words is very simple: choose life over death. We live in a culture that easily embraces all things destructive, and a society that celebrates defacing the image of God in man instead of recognizing and accepting it. And so we must resist what is evil and be intentional about choosing the Good. However, to do this, we must first discern what is evil. If we do not... Read more
Read Time: 12 minutes In a recent segment, Tucker Carlson, someone who needs no qualifying remarks, made some statements about the relationship between Transgenderism and Christianity. Carlson’s comments came in the aftermath of the shooting of six people, three adults and three 9-year old students, at a private Christian school in Nashville, TN. The shooter, someone called “Audrey Hale,” was a transgender person. As far as I have been able to discern from media coverage, Hale was a biological women... Read more
What was the faith of America’s founding fathers? While most of the founders were personally Christians, the question that vexed them most was upon what foundation was the Political State to be built. If Christ was the foundation of the Church, then was He also the foundation of the body politic, to include its particular laws and institutions of governance? The answer was not so simple, even in their day, when everyone was some kind of Christian. In this episode... Read more
Read Time: 10 minutes In this series, I am reviewing the 5 best Christian movies of all time (that I have actually seen). In the first post, I discussed two movies that are not only two of the best sports’ films of all time, but two of the greatest Christian films of all time. In the last post, I discussed two films about missionaries, which are tied for 3rd place. Thus, the title of this series is actually somewhat deceptive,... Read more
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