Hans Boersma on Saving Mankind
by R. R. RenoHans Boersma joins the podcast to discuss the modern social engineering of language and the inherent exclusivity of “inclusive language.” Continue Reading »
Hans Boersma joins the podcast to discuss the modern social engineering of language and the inherent exclusivity of “inclusive language.” Continue Reading »
As the sacrifice of the Mass is being offered, the priest pours a drop of water into the chalice, praying sotto voce, “By the mystery of this water in wine, may we come to share in the divinity of Christ, who humbled himself to share in our humanity.” At the heart of Christ’s oblation is . . . . Continue Reading »
Where the Council is interpreted in a Christ-centered way, evangelization thrives. Continue Reading »
Christian political theory cherishes Christ as the ultimate criterion of every cultural and political achievement. Continue Reading »
The great liberal Protestant theologian Adolf von Harnack argued that the simple, wholly ethical message of Christ was obscured over time by being mixed with Greek ideas. This corruption, he said, culminated in the Council of Chalcedon’s definition of Christ as one person with two natures, . . . . Continue Reading »
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s short story “Thank You for the Light” captures how Christ transfigures the mundane. Continue Reading »
My students are afraid to preach—not all of them, but more and more, it seems. And it is often the brightest and most eloquent, those who are least justified in parroting Moses’s excuse—“I am slow of speech and of tongue”—who lack the confidence to open the Scriptures for the . . . . Continue Reading »
A Time to Keep: Theology, Mortality, and the Shape of a Human Life by ephraim radner baylor, 304 pages, $49.95 A Time to Keep is an odyssey—a journey through childhood and adolescence, work and sexuality, aging and dying. The reader encounters Sigmund Freud on dying and death, . . . . Continue Reading »
I teach in a great books program at an Evangelical university. Almost all students in the program are born-and-bred Christians of the nondenominational variety. A number of them have been both thoroughly churched and educated through Christian schools or homeschooling curricula. Yet an . . . . Continue Reading »
Christmas reminds us what Christians have to say to the world's pervasive loneliness. We say “God is with us.” Continue Reading »