As we Americans celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, it is worth remembering what it meant to the original Founding Fathers. There are many subversive theories about the country’s origins, such as the idea that it was founded by Masons who did not believe in traditional Christianity or that it was rich […]

There are ideas so absurd they once belonged safely in satire. Imagine telling your grandfather—a man who hunted, farmed, and fed his family from the land—that one day a political movement would treat killing animals for food as moral barbarism. Explain that raising livestock, fishing in rivers, and harvesting game in season would be criminalized.  […]

Imagine yourself as a Jewish teacher in first-century Palestine. A foreign empire rules over you and your land. A rival group, centered on the famous rabbi Jesus of Nazareth, is spreading rapidly even though he was condemned for blasphemy by Jewish leaders and executed by the Romans. The greatest headscratcher eventually happens to be the […]

Modern Evangelical Pharisees In my previous article, “When Repentance Becomes Costly,” I described a great problem in the American Evangelical Church. There is a need for pastoral repentance, but it has been absent in large measure. While the Lord has raised up many good shepherds, there is indeed an entire class that has disqualified themselves, […]