Posts with the category “cultural-engagement”

The recent movement of Hitler-love is full of moral stunts and scoops, intellectual bargaining, and self-promotion. It is a world as spiritually dead as the world of the PWC, also rejecting metaphysic...  Read More

Algorithms have ancient roots. The word itself comes from the 9th-century Persian mathematician al-Khwarizmi, whose Latin-transliterated name became “algorithm.” But algorithmic thinking predates him....  Read More

Many Christians find themselves working for businesses or corporations that encourage compliance with the moral revolution. Perhaps their company wants them to participate in gay pride month. Perhaps ...  Read More

Every worldview is accountable to the question, “Why is there something rather than nothing?” The primary battleground the world has with the church is the issue of beginnings, including human origins...  Read More

IntroductionDysfunction can happen anywhere, whether at home, in the government, or in your favorite sports team. Your workplace can also have a chronic state of dysfunction that wears on you. It’s no...  Read More

IntroductionBelief in one conspiracy, rightly attested, doesn’t mean you should believe in all the rest, falsely suggested. It's hard to know what to believe. Before surrendering reason to conspiracy'...  Read More

IntroductionIn the early twentieth century, Max Weber described the Western world as undergoing a process of “disenchantment.” How was the world to be explained? By scientism, rationalization, and imp...  Read More

Megan Basham has written a deeply sourced book about how the political left has been pouring money and influence into evangelicalism for decades. There are initiatives, political action groups, confer...  Read More

IntroductionOne of the leading thinkers on the Intellectual Dark Web (IDW) is the pseudonymous Bronze Age Pervert (BAP), author of the baleful book Bronze Age Mindset, published in 2018. BAP represent...  Read More

IntroductionChristians these days are always complaining about how American politics needs serious reform. History gives little hope that convulsive struggles among the principalities and powers ameli...  Read More

IntroductionVideo games are the magical invention of an imaginary world. To play the game is to conquer a pretend planet. All power in that world is just one click away.  You see what isn’t real and b...  Read More

IntroductionCulture-making is one of the ways we change the world. But we should think small before we think big. Tip O’Neill famously said, “All politics is local.” What if we thought of culture-maki...  Read More

IntroductionCivil society needs Christianity and Christians need to be the first to recognize why. There is a tide rising against historic Christianity and Christians are feeling the collywobbles abou...  Read More

IntroductionThe wider intellectual trend of the “age of light” (as Jonathan Edwards referred to the Enlightenment) was the emphasis on man’s libertarian free will—the individual’s wholly unfettered wi...  Read More

Introduction“For among them are those who creep into households and capture weak women, burdened with sins and led astray by various passions, 7 always learning and never able to arrive at a knowledge...  Read More

IntroductionMost conservative Christians justly despise critical race theory (CRT). They see its spider-like tendencies to prey upon naïve citizens, inject them with emotional toxins, and consume thei...  Read More

It's hard to date the beginning of the madness. Maybe you trace it to the death of George Floyd in May of 2020, the shooting of Michael Brown in August of 2014, the creation of Black Lives Matters in ...  Read More

The power of hypocrisy is that it proves something to be false. But maybe not the thing you think. Veganism isn’t proven false by a vegan who has three exception days a week. Her belief in veganism is...  Read More

IntroductionOne of the developing trends is for companies, governments, colleges, and professional guilds to require their people to sign DEI statements (diversity, equity, inclusion). The legal origi...  Read More

The reason we need to engage in cultural apologetics is that the history of the evangelical church shows a tendency for cultural interests to eclipse biblical norms. The evangelical drift is to compro...  Read More

Nat Hentoff’s said that “Fiction is sometimes more real than fact … it can tell you more than facts.” What follows is a fictional conversation.Conference Speaker: Thank you for attending the “Lived Ex...  Read More

It was all predictable. The whole mise en scene of Black Lives Matter and the woke propaganda invited the not altogether worthy spectacle of the inevitable backlash—virtually creating the racism it cl...  Read More

With the Obergefell decision in June of 2015, the sodomy lobby got everything it wanted. What next? It used to be LGB rights. Now it's LGBT rights and the “T” isn't like anything that came previously....  Read More

IntroductionThe ubiquitous expectation in modern life is to “be true to oneself,” which means the foremost concern and superseding moral imperative is the cultivation of the self.[1] This self-creatio...  Read More

We recently wrote an article entitled “God and Culture” where we argued there is a certain folly and falsity to think one can live in a place without being shaped by it. One of the ways the church is ...  Read More

Since bad ideas drive out good ideas, it’s helpful to occasionally take stock of some ideas that have pushed their way into the driver’s seat. Since culture is changing rapidly in a secular direction,...  Read More

This is the question that Christians continue to ask. What are we to do about the growing secular influence, especially within the church? The answer is that we must be thoroughly Christian, in every ...  Read More

Recently Anthony Bradley published an article at Mere Orthodoxy entitled “Critical Race Theory Isn’t a Threat for Presbyterians.” Bradley argues that the Presbyterian Church in American (PCA) doesn’t ...  Read More

IntroductionThis is not the time for Christians to retreat to a hidey-hole and say, “The world’s going to hell and a handbasket and I can do nothing to stop it.” This is not the time to dispense with ...  Read More

Many Christians find themselves working for businesses or corporations that encourage compliance with the moral revolution. Perhaps their company wants them to participate in gay pride month. Perhaps ...  Read More