Michelle Wolf and the Throwaway Culture
Michelle Wolf’s comment was not just a bad joke; it was a brazen display of power
“When we live in the space beyond good and evil, when morality is construed as entirely the invention of personal freedom, when nothing counts as intrinsically wicked, when any claim to moral authority is automatically shouted-down — in other words, when we live in the world that Nietzsche made possible — then the will of... Continue Reading
North Korea Frees American Christians
President Trump announced that the three prisoners have been released prior to his historic meeting with Kim Jong-un.
North Korea ranks as the worst country for Christian persecution on the annual Open Doors World Watch List, and the organization estimates that beyond the foreign nationals detained there, many of the country’s own citizens—including around 50,000 believers—are being held in detention centers, prisons, or political camps. Three Korean American evangelicals held as prisoners... Continue Reading
Giovanni Diodati – An Italian at Dordt
Diodati had demonstrated a remarkable faithfulness to the doctrines of the Reformation, an impressive spirit of initiative, and a sincere concern for the church of Italian refugees he pastored in Geneva.
His hopes of seeing a biblical reformation in Italy soared when, in 1604, the Republic of Venice launched an open challenge to papal authority and its blatant corruption. He visited Venice twice, under the pseudonym of Giovanni Coreglia, and worked with others to the realization of this dream. In 1618, the situation in Europe... Continue Reading
Should Pastors ‘Get Things Done’?
We have been born in the age of efficiency. We are the people who “get stuff done.” Should we be so focused on getting things done?
The Apostle Paul instructs us to redeem the time (Eph. 5:16), not to be efficient with time. We are to redeem the time with the slow work of prayer, the slow work of meditating on and teaching Scripture, and the slow work of listening to others, praying for others, and being present with others. Your... Continue Reading
Four Lessons I’ve Learned From the Puritans
God, by His grace, opened my eyes to these spiritual giants of the seventeenth century and forever changed my life.
Not only did I read Whyte’s classic work on Rutherford’s letters, but then went on to read the Letters myself, which drastically impacted the trajectory of my life. Moreover, through Whyte, and then incidentally, Rutherford, their writing opened my eyes to other Puritans; and thus, my journey to understand the Puritans began. Although I... Continue Reading
Turkey Postpones Hearing to July 18, Sends Pastor Andrew Brunson Back to Prison
Brunson is an American citizen and pastor of a small Protestant church facing up to 35 years imprisonment on false terrorism and espionage related charges.
“We leave the courthouse with serious concerns. Today’s eleven hours of proceedings were dominated by wild conspiracies, tortured logic, and secret witnesses, but no real evidence to speak of. Upon these rests a man’s life,” said Vice Chair Jolley. “Worse still, the judge’s decision at the conclusion of today’s hearing to dismiss all of the witnesses... Continue Reading
Reversing the Gospel: Warfield on Race and Racism
Social causes crop up only very seldom in his works, but one social cause stands out as one holding his particular interest: the cause of the American blacks.
The giant of Old Princeton, B. B. Warfield, outspokenly condemned the racism and rigid segregation of American society of his day. His views were remarkably ahead of his time with regard to an understanding of the evil of racism and even somewhat prophetic with regard to the further evil that would result from it. His... Continue Reading
Vittoria Colonna – the Poet Who Inspired Michelangelo
He needed more than love. He needed the truth. Vittoria provided both.
Vittoria and Michelangelo had long conversations about art, poetry, and faith. They encouraged each other to keep writing and publish their works which, by that time, had turned almost exclusively to religion. Michelangelo, who had often expressed in his poem his sorrow over sins and his fear of death, found in this “high and godly... Continue Reading
Andy Stanley: Church Unity Is More Important Than ‘Being Theologically Correct’
Stanley spoke of how he came to believe that believing in Jesus Christ was more important than theological arguments like how communion should be served or if babies should be baptized
“Will we prioritize our oneness over our politics? Will we continue to allow the kingdom of the world to divide the Kingdom of God that is in this world because of politics?” Stanley argued that oneness in the faith was “more important than being theologically correct,” adding that he believed when Christians of various denominations... Continue Reading
Men, Women Who Left Homosexuality, Transgenderism to Rally at DC’s ‘Freedom March’
"Now I have the chance to live in relationship and not religion, not just loving Christ but being in love with Christ and sharing [H]is love."
Luis Javier Ruiz, a survivor of the June 2016 massacre at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, where 49 people were murdered by Omar Mateen in what was at the time the worst mass shooting in modern American history, will be participating in the May 5 march. “I should [have] been number 50,” Ruiz wrote... Continue Reading
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