Sooner or later everyone has to decide which gang they belong to. —Pepper in Gaiman and Pratchett’s Good Omens (1990) Rahab’s Treason Rahab was a prostitute. Not a temple prostitute either, but an ordinary whore. Her house sat on the ...
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By What Standard Can Atheists Call God Evil?
… A vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully. —Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion (2008) A three year old child may slap its father in his face only because the ...
Read More »Leadership Lessons From A Mighty Warrior
Spiritual leaders are not elected, appointed, or created by synods or churchly assemblies. God alone makes them. —J. Oswald Sanders, Spiritual Leadership (1994) This was the character of Joshua… He understood the dynamics of choice —once for all choice and ...
Read More »The Success Secret Entitlement Culture Hates The Most
What if coming from a culture shaped by the demands of growing rice also makes you better at math? —Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers (2008) Time and Chance There is more to success than genius or talent, we all know that. Sometimes ...
Read More »The Covenant Calendar
They had the shadows, we have the substance. —Matthew Henry on Colossians 1:17 The Ever Circling Years In pagan religion, man helps sustain the cycles of Nature and perhaps the universe itself through ritualistic magic. The traditional magician’s formula is, ...
Read More »New Year’s Resolutions Or New Year’s New Hearts
The kingdom of this world/Is become the kingdom of our Lord, And of His Christ, and of His Christ;/And He shall reign forever and ever… —“The Hallelujah Chorus” from Handel’s Messiah Time… it is the one unifying constant, besides death, ...
Read More »The Metaphysics of Education
“We also predestine and condition. We decant our babies as socialized human beings, as Alphas or Epsilons, as future sewage workers or future … World controllers…” —Mr. Foster in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World (1932) “By real education I mean ...
Read More »Comfort and Joy
He comes to make His blessings known/Far as the curse is found. —Isaac Watts Doom and Sorrow Jesus came to a broken world—a world wracked by war and disease; a world plagued by addiction, alienation, and abuse; a world polluted ...
Read More »History and Our Place in God’s Great Story
“To hold that history is in the hands of anyone but the sovereign God is to be Satanist ultimately, because control is then transferred to creation and either to unseen malignant forces or to malignant men.” – R. J. Rushdoony ...
Read More »Cultural Transmission and the Failure of American Social Studies
American citizenship means hard work, temperance, morality, and the habit of right living. —Samuel Chapman Armstrong, founder of Hampton Institute Business norms and values in the early social studies came, not from industry, but from a school whose special task ...
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