Introduction Though this line risks over-simplifying complex debates, one might argue that much of the furor over Rod Dreher’s The Benedict Option is a matter of critics simply not reading well. As Collin Hansen noted in his brief summary for The Gospel Coalition, the book’s subtitle is actually rather modest: “A Strategy for Christians in a […]
Posted outside my office door is an old cartoon. A bearded professor wearing sandals and carrying a backpack leads a group of wide-eyed undergrads into a land labeled “utopia.” As they merrily march along, they pass an exodus of escaping humanity, fleeing an ash-strewn landscape amid scattered bodies and smoldering ruins. “Isn’t this great?” the […]
When asked about the Holy Roman Empire the French philosophe Voltaire once quipped that said empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire. I had something like that thought while reading Dr. James K. A. Smith’s piece for the Washington Post. That said, Dr. Smith’s post is far from the first to raise this concern. […]
Hello. My name is Patrick and I’m going to trust you with a story. I don’t know you, but my hope is that you are reading this piece for the right reasons—to be challenged and to grow. Last week I was challenged by an article written by Paul Maxwell, and I want to speak to […]
So I would like to invite you to read through The Benedict Option with me. For the most part we will go a chapter at a time, although this first time out we will take the Introduction and Chapter One together. For various reasons this is an important book, and how we respond to […]
An ISIS affiliate appears to be targeting Christian families in the North Sinai peninsula, and hundreds of terrified residents have fled the area. Source: Egyptian Christians flee after ISIS attacks – CNN.com
36 15 10 I’m pleased to publish this guest post by Sharon Hodde Miller. This year has changed me. I say this in all earnestness and with no dramatic intent, but this year really has changed me. I am not […] Source: Evangelicals and the Loss of Prophetic Imagination – Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, […]
In the margin of a public speaker’s manuscript was the notation: “Weak point. Shout.” Such is the rhetoric of those who place emotion over logic and make policy through gangs rather than parliaments. In Athens some 2,400 years ago, Aristophanes described a demagogue as having “a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, cross-grained nature and the language […]
The Public Square An election year does strange things to people. For instance, Father John . . . . Source: Against Christian Politics by Richard John Neuhaus | Articles | First Things
OPINION | Wouldn’t it be helpful if critics of the executive order also affirm the utmost importance that all who come to America must affirm American core principles? Source: What do critics of refugee ban really think about America? | TheHill
