I’ve spent a lot of time over the years studying economics, governance, science, culture, etc. from a biblical perspective. Although a number of the books I’ve read are not written by Christians, by God’s common grace non-Christians can contribute to our understanding of the world and often do a better job than Christians–within limits. Here…
Category: Worldview
The Bible, Politics, and the Gospel
We have a fair amount of discussion in my church over what the Bible teaches when it comes to government and how to apply God’s Word to particular areas of public policy. During one of those discussions, a friend recently commented, “I reject the notion that someone needs to be a small government conservative to…
Private Property, the Great Commission, and the Trinity
In a recent email discussion, a friend from church recently noted, “I don’t think anyone is going to argue that government has carte blanche to take property from people.” As I told him, I don’t think that is the case. For starters, I certainly would. And so might folks like the justices on the Texas…
The Kingdom of God and Our Hope
During some recent conversations at my church about abortion, Republicans, the mission of the church, and the fulfillment of the cultural mandate, several questions came up about how the mission of the church relates to the cultural mandate and and also what sources have helped some us hold to a preterist and postmillennial view of…
Lov Gov 2
Imagine the government personified. Not a bunch of people trying to meddle in our lives, but just one. That is what the Independence Insitute has done with Lov Gov, two great series of videos highlighting what a mess government really is these days. Watch Lov Gov 2 Episode 1 above.
Our Lumpen Intelligentsia
Our culture’s rejection of experts these days is well founded. Experts over the centuries have told us the Earth is the center of the universe, that it is a good idea to bleed sick people, that creation is billions of years old, and that humans are the primary driver of climate change. But it is…
No Quarter November
Doug Wilson warns us that he’ll be speaking the unvarnished truth throughout November: So it is apparent that I believe that there really is a time for rhetorical qualifications. That time is not this coming November. Allow me to explain. No, no, I insist. During the course of this approaching month of November, my plan…
Transacting with Riyadh
Islam is a murderous religion. It takes the sword to those who fail to submit to Allah. Andrew McCarthy describes how we see this playing out in the murderous regime ruling Saudi Arabia: What is variously called “radical Islam,” Islamism, “political Islam,” or “Islamic extremism” (and don’t you dare ask what it is that they’re…
“I am the 99%”
We live in a world today when it seems that civility is going by the wayside. And in which we are tempted to believe that things are getting worse than they have been in the past. Sometimes, however, that belief is based in the conceit of the present, a thought process where we believe that the…
The Story of Evolution
Six-day creationists, i.e., those of us who believe that God created the world in six 24-hour days, are often ridiculed as being unscientific. Even inside the church many have bent and twisted scripture to accommodate the very modern view that the universe has been in existence for billions of years. However, it is actually the…