Culture/Politics/History

Intentionalists believe that the Constitution should be understood in the way it was understood by the Founders. Consequently, it is a fixed document with static meaning; therefore, it means today what it meant then. The only way one can properly interpret it is by studying the authorial intent of the signatories. In contrast, progressives believe…

We like to consider ourselves a “civilized” and “humane” society, and I think that is true in many ways. However, the legalization and normalization of abortion reminds us of the darker side of our humanity. For in abortion, the strong summarily dismiss the lives of the preborn through methods that betray a narcissistic primal barbarism.…

“Whoever spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him.” Proverbs 13:24). “Do not withhold discipline from a child; if you strike him with a rod, he will not die. If you strike him with the rod, you will save his soul from Sheol.” (Proverbs 23:13-14). Spanking is…

The present rhetorical climate labels humans as “consumers”, which is true to a degree, but we are much more than just consumers. The value in such a label being used as the most apt for humans merely furthers the environmentalist’s agenda and miscasting of humans as intruders into an otherwise pristine universe. The formula goes…

Once a citadel of truth and training for Christian ministers, Harvard is today an enemy of the gospel and truth. Speaking at the 2002 fall convocation, Harvard President Lawrence Summers admitted that “things divine [had] been central neither to my professional nor to my personal life.” He then wondered out loud, “In what ways should…

Patrick Moore, one of the founders of Greenpeace International, said in an interview in the New Scientist in December 1999, “the environmental movement abandoned science and logic somewhere in the mid-1980s…political activists were using environmental rhetoric to cover up agendas that had more to do with class warfare and anti-corporatism than with actual science…” ((Environmental…

Science’s emphasis upon “observation” sometimes leads the average person to believe that scientists make all of their conclusions based upon what they actually see with their own eyes, and some scientists, who seek to make scientific observation the only or best way of knowing, speak in ways that clearly encourage that misunderstanding. Consequently, some scientist…

The Scripture teaches that God is compassionate, “Nevertheless, in Your great compassion You did not make an end of them or forsake them, For You are a gracious and compassionate God.“(Nehemiah 9:31) He extols compassion and commands it in His people’s lives, “So, as those who have been chosen of God, holy and beloved, put…

The following article appeared under the title “The Pristine Myth”. ((The Kairos Journal)) One of the most memorable American television images is a 1970s Ad Council ((“The Ad Council is a private, non-profit organization that marshals volunteer talent from the advertising and communications industries, the facilities of the media, and the resources of the business…

Ryan Polk, Associate Pastor at Trinity Baptist Church, has felt impressed by our Lord to start “The Wilberforce Initiative” which will provide a venue for Trinity as well as citizens from across the spectrum to seek to bring our Christian worldview to bear upon some of the most pressing social, moral, intellectual and spiritual issues…