What first attracted G.K. Chesterton to Christian orthodoxy, he remarked, was that “it was attacked on all sides and for all contradictory reasons.” Fellow skeptics found the monks too meek and the Crusaders too bloody, the vestments too showy and …
Education and Faith
“Education is inescapably a religious discipline. The content, methodology, and the very culture in which education takes place are the product of the theologies which drive them. There is no neutrality. When parents choose between …
Awaken
The Great Awakening touched every sectionof the colonial domains of England in the New World—from northern-most NewEngland to southern-most Georgia. And its impact was enormous. Interestingly, this cultural and spiritual phenomenon was enti…
Christocentric Pro-Life
“Fight for the Children” is a powerful new music video from a new generation of Pro-Lifers–offering great hope that the struggle for the sanctity of life will continue uninterrupted into the future.
Boring Is Good
In his masterful novel The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane traced the effects of war on a single Union soldier, Henry Fleming, from his dreams of soldiering, to his actual enlistment, and through several battles of the all too uncivil War between t…
All of Grace
”What sweet consolations, what deft motivations, what strong demonstrations there are for us in the grace of our God.” Thomas Chalmers
The Covenanter and the King
The Marquess Archibald Campbell, Earl of Argyll (1598-1661) defied Oliver Cromwell’s English Protectorate and invited the exiled Charles II to return to Scotland to receive his crown on this day in 1650. A Scots Presbyterian, Argyll was the leader of…
Running with Hope
“If you are losing faith in human nature, go out and watch a marathon.” Kathrine Switzer, Women’s Marathoning Pioneer
Under Our Own Command
When the esteemed Senate Majority Leader of the Senate, Henry Cabot Lodge, addressed his colleagues on this day in 1919, the nation was already in the midst of a “Great Debate” over its future foreign policy. What was then called the Great War–wh…
New Sermon Series: Genesis 1-11
Four decades ago Francis Schaeffer wrote, “The battle for a Christian understanding of the world is being waged on several fronts. Not the least of these is Biblical study in general, and especially the question of how the opening chapters of the Bibl…
Resting and Recovering in Vienna
Exhausted from his Herculean labors as a journalist, educator, statesman, theologian, pastor, and social reformer, Abraham Kuyper (1837-1920) came to visit Vienna shortly after his first term in the Dutch parliament had come to an end on this day in 18…
My Favorite Street Foods
1. Bratwurst in Leipzig2. Frites in Antwerp3. Coffee in Bogota4. Falafel in Jerusalem5. Pain au Raisin in Paris6. Lamb Kebab in Amman7. Satay in Jakarta8. Wienwurst in Vienna9. Nathan’s Coney in Brooklyn10. Stroopwafel in Amsterdam11. Haggis in Edinburgh
The Wisdom of John R.W. Stott
“Every Christian should be both conservative and radical; conservative in preserving the faith and radical in applying it.””Before we can begin to see the cross as something done for us, we have to see it as something done by us.””Good conduct arises o…