📄The Areopagus Update - Oct/Nov 2024 A Vital Component in the Christian Response to a Changing Society and Culture “When the foundations are being destroyed, what can the righteous do?” – Psalm 11:3 “ I doubt if there has been a period in all of Christian...
📄The Areopagus Update - Aug/Sept 2024 A CALL TO WHOLISTIC DISCIPLESHIP Many Christians have been led to believe that we should be as apolitical as possible so as to eliminate any unnecessary distractions or impediments in our witness to others. What really matters,...
📄The Areopagus Update Jan/Feb 2024 Are we living in “the last days” of our uniquely Christian-influenced society and culture? Since its founding in the late 18th century, America has been a unique nation in all of world history – one founded on such revolutionary but...
📄The Areopagus Update Aug/Sept 2023 FOUNDATIONS FOR CHRISTIAN FAITH In 1963 Bob Dylan wrote and recorded perhaps the defining song of the decade – and American social and cultural history ever since – with his folk/protest classic, “The Times, They Are A-Changin’.” If...
📄The Areopagus Update – Jan/Feb 2023 One of the most important books of 2022 was Letter to the American Church by Eric Metaxas, a best-selling author and host of “Socrates in the City” and the nationally syndicated Eric Metaxas Radio Show. The book is a bold and...
📄The Areopagus Update – Aug/Sept 2022 Our Areopagus fall seminar is “HOW SHOULD WE NOW LIVE? PART 1: THE LIFE & LEGACY OF FRANCIS SCHAEFFER.” Unless you’re a young adult or a relatively new Christian, you’ve undoubtedly heard of Francis Schaeffer who, along with...
📄The Areopagus Update – Summer 2022 The latest eruption in America’s ongoing culture war exploded prematurely on May 2, 2022 with the unauthorized leaking of a draft opinion from Associate Justice Samuel Alito indicating that the majority of justices on the U.S....
📄The Areopagus Update – Mar/Apr 2022 This past week we witnessed quite a spectacle as the U.S. Senate’s Judiciary Committee held hearings on Joe Biden’s nominee for the Supreme Court, Ketanji Brown Jackson – perhaps the most radical and least qualified person to ever...
📄The Areopagus Update – Jan/Feb 2022 Exploring the Depths of Christian Spirituality and Discipleship Our upcoming Areopagus seminar, "The Inner Journey: Exploring the Depths of Christian Spirituality and Discipleship,” begins on Wednesday, January 12th (for details,...
📄The Areopagus Update – Aug/Sept 2021 An excerpt from Critical Theory and Critical Race Theory: A Critical Analysis by Jefrey Breshears The Bible and Critical Race Theory Critical Race Theory is not only blatantly Marxist, racist and antiAmerican, but it is...
📄The Areopagus Update – May/June 2021 “I am astonished that you are so quickly… turning to a different gospel – which is really no gospel at all. Evidently, some people are throwing you into confusion and are trying to pervert the gospel of Christ.” (Gal. 1:6-7) Like...
📄The Areopagus Update – March/April 2021 “The most comprehensive assault on Christianity ever written into law.” In the January/February edition of The Areopagus Update I wrote of “The Looming Deluge” in which “a ferocious cultural, moral and spiritual storm is...
📄The Areopagus Update – Jan/Feb 2021 One of my favorite recording artists in the 1970s was Jackson Browne. Most of those who know of him remember his music for songs such as “Rock Me on the Water,” “Take It Easy” (a hit single by the Eagles) and “Running on Empty,”...
📄The Areopagus Update – Aug/Sept 2020 American CrisisCultural Marxism and the Culture War:A Christian Responseby Jefrey D. Breshears(Centre•Pointe Publishing, 2020)Available at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08DDRM6JQ The Purpose American Crisis is an incisive study and...
📄The Areopagus Update – March/April 2020 Writing in the March 12, 2020 edition of the Gospel Coalition website, managing editor Matt Smethurst notes the following: “It’s now clear that COVID-19 is a deadly serious global pandemic, and all necessary precautions should...
📄The Areopagus Update – Jan/Feb 2020 (Excerpts from the new book by Jefrey D. Breshears, C. S. Lewis on Politics, Government, and the Good Society: Relevant Insights and Sage Wisdom for Contemporary Christians (CentrePointe Publishing, 2020) C. S. Lewis is generally...
📄The Areopagus Update – Oct/Nov 2019 To paraphrase a famous quote by the renowned English essayist, Dr. Samuel Johnson: “The realization that one is scheduled to hang in the immediate future has a wonderful effect in terms of focusing one’s mind.” I feel somewhat the...
📄The Areopagus Update – Aug/Sept 2019 While Paul was in Athens he was greatly distressed to see that the city was full of idols. So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the God-fearing Greeks, as well as in the marketplace with those who were there. A group...
📄The Areopagus Update – March/April 2019 How Did We Get Here... And Why Does It Matter? A recent article in The Epoch Times featured the headline, “More Than 1,000 Scientists Dissent from Darwinism.” Written by Ivan Pentchoukov, the article focuses on two of the most...
📄The Areopagus Update – Jan/Feb 2019 In 1963 Bob Dylan wrote and recorded “The Times They Are A-changin’,” an anthem that helped crystalize and mobilize the massive social, political and cultural protest movements of the decade. Not only was it one of the defining...
📄The Areopagus Update – Oct/Nov 2018 On Loving One's Neighbor As One's Self: The Political Component Many Christians have been led to believe that we should be as apolitical as possible so as to eliminate any unnecessary distractions or impediments in our witness to...
📄The Areopagus Update – May/June 2018 Insights and challenges from the new book by Nancy Pearcey, “Love Thy Body” Human life and sexuality have become the watershed moral issues of our age. Every day, the twenty-four-hour news cycle chronicles the advance of a secular...
📄The Areopagus Update – Mar/Apr 2018 by Thomas Lambrecht A recent article in the journal First Things by Mary Eberstadt entitled “The Zealous Faith of Secularism” make the case that the challenge we face in the United States is one of competing faiths or competing...
📄The Areopagus Update – Jan/Feb 2018 Our Areopagus seminar for the first semester of 2018 is one of my favorite courses in our catalogue: “C. S. Lewis: The Life and Works of a ‘Mere Christian’.” As most Christians know, Lewis was an intellectual dynamo and one of the...
📄The Areopagus Update – Oct/Nov 2017 I returned a week ago from our Areopagus-sponsored Reformation History Tour. As anticipated, it was an inspiring experience as we visited many of the key sites associated with this momentous period in Christian history –...
📄The Areopagus Update - Aug/Sept 2017 Our Areopagus Dinner & Dialogue series this summer focused on Rod Dreher’s new book, 'The Benedict Option". Dreher is a writer and senior editor at The American Conservative blogsite, and "The Benedict Option" is one of the...
📄The Areopagus Update - May/June 2017 One of the most anticipated books in recent years was released a couple of weeks ago: Rod Dreher’s The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation (Sentinel Press, 2017). This is a book that some regard...
📄The Areopagus Update - Mar/Apr 2017 With the election of Donald Trump last November, America is more polarized than at any time in our history since the Civil War. Of course the same would be true had Hillary Clinton won the election, except that we would not have...
📄The Areopagus Update - Jan/Feb 2017 The Protestant Reformation was one of the most significant events in Christian history as well as one of the great transitional eras in Western civilization. As the historian Rudolph Heinze has written, “The changes that occurred...