David T. Koyzis

The following was published in the 9 March 2009 issue of Christian Courier as part of my “Principalities & Powers” column:In our postchristian society, appeals to human rights have become the functional equivalent of the biblical prophets’ “thus saith the Lord.” . . . . Continue Reading »

More than three decades ago I discovered a form of prayer that transformed what up to then had been a rather feeble prayer life. Continue Reading »

Having read the recent posts on creation and the age of the earth, I cannot but wonder whether the debate is finally an empty one. I would not stake my reputation on it, but I wonder whether the following might offer a way of getting beyond it. Could it be that God created, simultaneously and ex . . . . Continue Reading »

It is evidently the season for institutions of higher learning to select new presidents. We have recently heard announcements from Baylor University and Wheaton College. Now my own employer, Redeemer University College, one of a very few Christian universities in Canada, has just announced the . . . . Continue Reading »

Lord Acton famously wrote that “power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely,” a statement frequently quoted and all too often accepted at face value. Mark Earley’s modification is an improvement:But remember this: power corrupts, but power itself is not . . . . Continue Reading »

Barack Obama has been president for just over twelve months and in his recent state of the union address he set out his priorities for his second year in office. It is no surprise that many observers are now questioning Obama’s overall effectiveness in the presidency as unemployment remains . . . . Continue Reading »

Every so often someone in the popular press will make the apparently earth-shattering discovery that evangelical Christians can actually think and are not, after all, “poor, uneducated and easy to command,” as journalist Michael Weisskopf notoriously put it nearly two decades ago. The . . . . Continue Reading »

It is not difficult to find Christian theologians and liturgical scholars commenting on what makes for a good hymn text. For example, last year I read J. Gresham Machen’s Christianity and Liberalism, in the course of which he discusses the merits of three familiar hymns, Nearer, My God, to . . . . Continue Reading »

[caption id=”attachment_3905” align=”alignright” width=”185” caption=”Yves René Simon”][/caption]Six decades ago the thomistic philosopher Yves René Simon observed that, since the French Revolution, authority has had something of a bad . . . . Continue Reading »

This is a sad account of the decline of Psalms in the western liturgy taken from the 1913 edition of the Catholic Encyclopedia under the entry for “Gradual”. I have taken the liberty of breaking it up into paragraphs and deleting the source citations for easier reading.Gradual, in . . . . Continue Reading »