But godliness with contentment is great gain –1 Timothy 6:6 Jeremiah Burroughs’ classic work The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment is one of those books that believers should put in their “to read regularly” rotation. It was pivotal in changing my paradigm for thinking about suffering, sanctification, and trust in God (who, as a Calvinist […]

A Decline in Traditional Values In the first three parts, I explained historian Edward Gibbon’s first four reasons why the Roman Empire fell. The first was a decline in art, which revealed the deeper issue of an immoral society that no longer valued the richness of true beauty. The second involved a focus on entertainment […]

The bullet-train pace of technological development in our age has overtaken us, with barely time for a breath. The advent of the smartphone kicked up the pace, but AI’s rapid innovation and adoption have been so fast that there’s been essentially no time to adjust. The COVID-era put millions in a tech-centered world where information, […]

Remember the hero scene from the 90s film Independence Day? Deep in the alien mother ship – having stealthily flown their Trojan Horse inside – the heroes upload the computer virus, disabling the ship, rendering defenseless smaller ships on Earth, wreaking untold carnage, chaos, and catastrophe. Humanity finally had a fighting chance to send its […]