“I am using the term secularism, then, to refer to the values of the modern age, especially where these lead to the restructuring of thought and life to accommodate the absence or irrelevance of God. Secularization is the process that creates the public environment in which these values seem natural and inevitable” [David Wells, No …
No Matter How Thin You Slice It
One of the standard responses to postmodernism is to point out the self-contradictory nature of it all. Incredulity to the naive belief that truth can be ascertained through words is an incredulity that reached us all via words. And when ordinary people point this out (har, har), the response is usually an urbane and sophisticated …
Come Again?
“In literature, a whole generation of deconstructionists has emerged within the universities who, despite their calling to be the custodians of the nation’s language, now make their living by denying that words have any meaning at all.” [David Wells, No Place for Truth (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1993), p. 65.]
La Bella Vita
Well. This has been quite a week for shameless appeals. But I don’t mind. They’re shameless. Off to the left (under Family and Friends) you can find Live Lovely, which is my youngest daughter’s work. Luke and Rachel Jankovic own and operate La Bella Vita, a shop to help equip us all for sabbath living.
Poster Boy
“It is, in fact, this assumption of an ability to move from one plateau of achievement to another that has given us a need always to be post: we feel compelled to assure ourselves that we are post-Puritan, post-Christian, and post-modern. Our world is post-industrial and post-business. Our time is post-Vietnam, post-Watergate, and post-Cold War.” …
Logos Curriculum
The Logos School board meets monthly on housekeeping issues, but in addition to this we have an annual board meeting that focuses on long-term vision. The board members also have a day every spring where we visit the classrooms and observe the instruction that is actually occurring on the ground. Speaking as an (admittedly biased) …
Worldliness and Faux Innocence
“The stream of historic orthodoxy that once watered the evangelical soul is now dammed by a worldliness that many fail to recognize as worldliness because of the cultural innocence with which it presents itself.” [David Wells, No Place for Truth (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1993), p. 11.]
A Really Troublesome Cartoon
Here’s a good one. HT: David Field
Credenda is no Deadenda
February 2006 Dear Friends of Credenda, We really are grateful for the financial support that you offer to our magazine. We are now entering our eighteenth year of publication, which helps to explain quite a number of things. This accounts for the adolescent sense of humor, as well as the fact that we don’t appear …
The Lewis and Clark of the Soul
“Lewis and Clark didn’t return from their trip and say, ‘Well, we didn’t find the Northwest Passage, but we did find ourselves.’ But that is the spirit of Bobo travel. Our travel dollars are investments in our own human capital. We don’t just want to see famous sights; we want to pierce into other cultures. …