Introduction: If you are an evangelical, you believe that Christ gave us the task of proclaiming the gospel of Christ to others, in the hope of persuading them to repent of their sins and believe the ...
Which Explains Our Current Plight
“No society can survive if none of her wise men can give one good reason why she should. No civilization can last if her philosophers thinks she shouldn’t.”
The Cultural Mind, p. 70
Compared to What?
Dear Darla, Now there are some strategic and tactical implications of what I wrote in my last few letters. It is time for us to game some of this out. Let’s get practical—or a bit more practical in your thinking, at any rate. You are in your mid-twenties now, and so you may have noticed …
When Letters Float Down from the Sky Like Ash After Fireworks
Letter to the Editor: Love the liberty catechism. Could you suggest some further reading for parents to supplement the catechism, other than Slaying Leviathan (since I already read ...
That’s the Ticket
A Liberty Catechism
Below I have arranged 52 questions on the nature of liberty as biblically understood. If parents work through these questions with their children, memorizing one a week, by the end of that year, their children may serve as something of a bright spot on our otherwise dark horizon. I am crowd sourcing editorial suggestions on …
Power Softens
“The ‘orthodoxy’ of today is epitomized by evolutionary relativistic sixties radicals who are now university presidents with cushy salaries. It must be said that at least some Christians outside now have an increasingly lean and hungry look. What happened to us a century ago is happening to them now.”
The Cultural Mind, p. 68
Not Surprised
Compensatory Crusades
“The platitudes of the reassuring and accepting therapist are no longer adequate. The reservoir of guilt in a society is too great, and the words are too small. Nothing will do but a great crusade to rid the world of the ‘real’ evil, which will be, each in their turn, polluters trashing the planet, women being denied their rights, and so forth. These crusades are nothing other than great causes invented to give moral order and purpose to people who have previously affirmed that there is no such thing as morality.”
The Cultural Mind, p. 65
Transactions and Covenants
Dear Darla, One of the hurdles that modern young women have to get over with regard to their thinking about marriage is the apparent transactional appearance of it. There is that surface appearance to begin with, and the plausibility of the charges leveled against it by the feminists have seeped into the backs of more …