Jan 26, 2020 | Culture
You already know I only have one daughter, but she’s still my favorite! She’s a champion for classical education, and a lower school academic dean at a charter classical school. She wrote an e-mail to parents recently, and I thought is was an excellent introduction to a mode of education that I pray becomes ever more widespread in America. I believe America as founded might just depend on it. If you are not familiar with classical education, and it’s value to educating children, please read on: (more…)
Jan 22, 2020 | Culture
Most Americans have never heard of Jim Elliot, the young man who died as a missionary in the jungles of Ecuador on January 8, 1956. Many Evangelical Christians have, and as something of a hero for his sacrifice to take the faith to the Indians in the jungles of Ecuador. What he, and his four companions did, giving their lives to take Christ where he had not been preached, appears completely insane to the modern secularist. Since this life is all their is, and since we can’t really know that it isn’t, we need to do everything we can to avert all risk, and squeeze every last second out of it we can. As Christians, this secularist mentality ought to be anathema to us, but too often it isn’t. The all pervasive influence of the secular culture all too easily turns us into secularists, but it doesn’t have to. (more…)
Nov 24, 2019 | Culture
I came across an article today FrontPageMAG that revealed Chick-fil-A’s cave to leftist bullies is much worse than I wrote about in my last post. The title and subtitle of the FrontPage piece says it all: “Chick-fil-A Put an Obama and Hillary Supporter in Charge, but Dumped Christians: Money for social justice and Muslim refugees, but not for the Salvation Army.” I’ll put some quotes below, but you’ll want to read the entire piece. I promise, Chick-fil-A will never taste the same. If we knew what was going on, we would not at all been surprised by last Monday’s announcement. (more…)
Nov 21, 2019 | Culture
By now you’ve surely heard that the Chick-fil-A Foundation, the arm of the chicken giant ($10.5 billion in revenue and growing fast) that gives money to various causes, has changed its giving mission. Part of the announcement included the news that they will no longer give money to the Salvation Army, and the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. The reason is obvious. These organizations are unapologetically Christian, and support the biblical view of sexual morality (I’ll give the context below). This was disappointing when I first read about it Tuesday morning, but far worse than I first thought. I realized this as I read a piece in PR Week this morning titled, Did Chick-fil-A Make the Right Move? Uh . . . nope. (more…)
Nov 7, 2019 | Culture
Secularism is the religion of the 21st century West, and all the most powerful messaging cultural machinery indoctrinates us into its view of reality. At the top of that list has to be our entertainment mediums, especially movies and television. Stories on screens are reality shapers, that is, they build into our imaginations ways of seeing and interpreting the world. Sociologically speaking, they are plausibility generating mechanisms in that they, without our knowing it, paint a picture of reality that we accept as real, or what seems real to us. Over time, if we take in entertainment uncritically, our plausibility structure (the building in our minds that determines how we see reality, the seemingness of it) becomes thoroughly secular, regardless of what we “believe.” (And for a short definition, what I mean by secular is that the material world, this world, is all that matters, and the here and the now is what is most important about life.) (more…)
Oct 28, 2019 | Culture
Most people are familiar with the name of Kanye West, even if they think it an infamous one. After all, he’s married to a Kardashian, and with that comes a cultural ubiquity of not the best sort, at least from a Christian perspective. Plus I’ve always thought of him as kind of strange, and an egomaniac to boot. Now he claims a conversion to Christianity, and in Kanye fashion isn’t keeping quiet about it. Much Internet ink is being spilled with a distinctly jaundiced eye toward the news, and I can certainly empathize with that. But given things seem to be going in the opposite direction culturally, with people advertising the abandonment of their faith, I thought, maybe I should give Kanye the benefit of the doubt.
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