Culture

I'm writing in a secret BJU Press project about the particular form of dualism Francis Schaeffer called the "two-story view." During my research today, I went back again to one of the two essays I have read most often in my life (the other is this), Stanley Fish's...

In this country you can come home from work and tell your spouse the marriage is over and he or she can do nothing but cry, and fight for the best financial payout possible. Try doing that with Verizon. Or while under contract to buy a home. Or with your gym...

I read this whole NY Times investigative series (and see the Public Editor's comments on it here) and found it helpful and insightful for my own ministry in an urban setting.

Probing, well worth reading, from someone whose role every American Christian should probably say at least one prayer for, Russell Moore of the Southern Baptist Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission: The most self-consciously “apolitical” churches are typically the...

From a helpful article: An ideology that is only “about human freedom” is inadequate as a governing philosophy.... Responding to the praises that had been sung about the French Revolution because of its supposed establishment of liberty, [Edmund Burke] made the...

Penetrating conservative philosopher Roger Scruton writes, Kitsch art ... is designed to put emotion on sale: it works as advertisements work, creating a fantasy world in which everything, love included, can be purchased, and in which every emotion is simply one item...