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 Eric Metaxas, Letter To the American Church Nancy Pearcey, The Toxic War on Masculinity: How Christianity Reconciles the Sexes Greg Koukl, Street Smarts: Using Questions to Answer Christianity’s Toughest Challenges Neil Shenvi,...
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’.”...
The Areopagus Update – January/February 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...
The Areopagus Update – August/September 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...
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 – Summer 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 be...
The Areopagus Update – January/February 2022 CHRISTIAN APOLOGETICS Jefrey D. Breshears, The Case for Christian Apologetics: Defending the Truth of the Christian Faith in a Post-Christian and Skeptical Culture (CentrePointe Publishing) Alisa Childers, Another Gospel? A...
The Areopagus Update – January/February 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...
The Areopagus Update – August/September 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 – August/September 2020 “American Crisis”Cultural 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...
📄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 – January/February 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...
📄The Areopagus Update – October/November 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...
📄The Areopagus Update – August/September 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....
THEISTIC EVOLUTION OR SPECIAL CREATION? How Did We Get Here... And Why Does It Matter? by Jefrey D. Breshears A recent article in The Epoch Times featured the headline, “More Than 1,000 Scientists Dissent from Darwinism.” Written by Ivan Pentchoukov, the article...
— BEGINNING IN JANUARY 2019 — Alternative Universes: A Survey of Comparative Worldviews and Religions by Jefrey D. Breshears In 1963 Bob Dylan wrote and recorded “The Times They Are A-changin’,” an anthem that helped crystalize and mobilize the massive social,...
A CALL TO WHOLISTIC DISCIPLESHIP On Loving One's Neighbor As One's Self: The Political Component by Jefrey D. Breshears Many Christians have been led to believe that we should be as apolitical as possible so as to eliminate any unnecessary distractions or impediments...
The Truth About Human Sexuality in a Confused and Chaotic Culture 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...
The Truth About Human Sexuality in a Confused and Chaotic Culture 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...
IMAGINE... Four Secular Dogmas, and the Challenges We Face 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...
What Every Christian Should Know About the Life and Works of C. S. Lewis by Jefrey Breshears 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...
Why a Reformation Was Necessary Then... and Now by Jefrey D. Breshears 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...
“The Benedict Option” A Necessary Preface by Jefrey D. Breshears 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...
The Most Important Christian Book of the Decade? “The Benedict Option” by Jefrey Breshears 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...
The Two Americas: The Undeniable Realities by Jefrey Breshears 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...