Culture

#150184538 / gettyimages.com Christian sociologist Kevin Flatt: The secular order is a way of structuring culture and society based on the functional assumption that the cosmos is inherently meaningless, devoid of any higher power or ordering principle, and so it...

Below is a one-paragraph summary of the grand narrative of liberal progressives, written by then-evangelical sociologist Christian Smith (in this book). Despite Smith's credentials and acumen, you don't necessarily expect evangelical sociologists to be fair—even when...

I'm finally nearing the end of a book I've been wanting to read for quite some time, Jonathan Haidt's The Righteous Mind. Haidt first came to my attention as that rare bird: a card-carrying liberal who was permitted by other liberals to talk extensively about...

Dropbox is one of my favorite tech tools. I rely on it extremely heavily, and it pretty much never lets me down. So when the Dropbox blog, to which I subscribe, announced Dropbox's official support of a gay pride event, I felt—as a faithful, paying customer who has...

Secular liberalism is a religion with fully fundamentalist adherents, just as Christianity is. So says self-described liberal, formerly of First Things, Damon Linker: From the dawn of the modern age, religious thinkers have warned that, strictly speaking, secular...

Carl Trueman on the use of natural law in today's public square: Today’s world is becoming a colder, harder place. Even so, we have ongoing civic responsibilities. Shaped by our faith, we too can speak to those in power. We must remind them of their responsibilities...

This post by Wheaton professor Tracy McKenzie—a personal answer to the barbed challenge against Christian education issued by U Penn's Peter Conn—was very stirring for me. Everyone at Bob Jones University should read McKenzie's piece, as should everyone teaching in...