Truth and Transformation: A Manifesto for Ailing Nations

It is a rare book that has me as excited as Vishal Mangalwadi’s new one does, Truth and Transformation. It simply is one of the most important books I’ve read on the power of a biblical worldview for social and cultural transformation. If this is a topic you care about—as I assume it is if [...]

What are the Implications?

Many people accept the concept of “limited resources” and “overpopulation” without much thought–but what are the implications of these ideas–and are these ideas true?
This morning as I listened to the radio on my drive to work, a news clip came on about Hillary Clinton, President Obama, and Pro-Life policies.  I turned up the volume to [...]

Imagine the Potential

I know so many people who talk about the painful circumstances that lead one to a decision to choose abortion over life.  One has to be realistic about the challenges of broken homes and single parenting, abuse, and the list is endless . . . and yet the potential for each of these broken lives [...]

More on Obama’s Style & Abortion

Style vs. Substance
Here is a powerful reflection by Josh Harris on Obama, style and substance:
My five-year-old son, Joshua Quinn, has been following the presidential election with his dad. To him it’s another sport alongside football and NASCAR. Someone wins. Someone loses. He can understand that.  He has seen various candidates on TV and he’s been [...]

A Response to Obama’s Blinding Style

Because there are so many in our current culture asking the same pressing questions in regard to politics, I thought it would be good to include Darrow’s recent response to a comment he received on this past series:
Good Morning JRice
Please, there is no sense of your being a pest or disrespectful. There is no [...]

Obama’s Blinding Style, Part 5 & Final

After President Obama signed the executive order allowing funding to go to international organizations that perform abortions, people began talking about the return of the culture wars. Personally, I have found Professor James Davidson Hunters’ coining of the phrase “culture wars” to be quite helpful. The term helps us understand that the tensions we see throughout America [...]

Obama’s Blinding Style, Part 4

As we continue our discussion of  style and substance in relationship to the Obama presidency, we need to realize that the sentiments and votes of the Christian community were split during the election. Many Christians voted for him and celebrated his election because of his winsome [...]

Obama’s Blinding Style, Part 3

We have said that there are two moral and metaphysical visions for the United States. We are no longer “one nation under God,” but two nations. One nation is  grounded in Judeo-Christian theism and the other founded in an Atheistic-Materialistic vision. These two nations occupy one geographic land. Some people have their feet consciously planted [...]

Jane Roe, Pro-life Advocate

The other day, I was sitting at home when I heard this commercial begin to air on our television.  Was I really hearing this right?  I couldn’t believe that “Jane Roe” would be speaking out against abortion.
The woman who fought to make abortion legal in the United States is now speaking out against that legislation.  [...]

Obama’s Blinding Style, Part 2

In the modern US political context, the nation is at a tipping point. The old Judeo-Christian foundations of the nation are being eroded. They have been replaced with an Atheistic-Materialistic paradigm. The United States is no longer “one nation under God.” The United States is one geography being shared by two distinct “nations” – peoples [...]