Maybe It’s Too Obvious

“It is remarkable that in this age of rampant victimology, the persecution of Christians by Muslims has become a taboo subject in the Western academy. A complex web of myths, outright lies, and deliberately imposed silence dominates it. Thirteen centuries of religious discrimination, causing suffering and death of countless millions, have been covered by the …

RC Sr. Denies the Gospel

I am listening to the August message of the month from Ligonier, where RC Sr. is talking about the Noahic covenant. Imagine how I felt when I heard him say that the distinction between the “covenant of works” and the “covenant of grace” was somewhat “artificial” and even “superficial.” Imagine further how I felt when …

America Sins at Dan and Bethel

Gelernter’s second chapter is quite valuable — in it he shows how American history is marinated in the Bible, and particularly in the cadences of the King James Bible. Back in the first chapter, he had noted what he means by the phrase “biblical republic.” “That’s what I mean by ‘biblical republic’: not a theocracy; …

Cultivate That Soil

This week and next we are going to be talking a good deal about money, and there is no subject on which Americans deceive themselves more easily than this one. We careen between two extremes. The first is to plunge headlong into the cascading waterfall of material goods that our economy produces, whooping and hollering …