Over the past fifteen years, my wife Dollie and I have sought to set aside a Sunday or two each year to visit churches that have particular theological, social and cultural influence and significance in American history – either for better or for worse. This past...
📄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 – 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...
As I wrote in my book, Critical Race Theory: A Critical Analysis (CentrePointe Publishing, 2021), Critical Race Theory (CRT) is a derivative of Marxist Critical Theory, a comprehensive assault on the spiritual, moral, cultural and institutional foundations and...
NOTE: This Thanksgiving – November 25, 2021 – marks the 400th anniversary of the original Thanksgiving feast as celebrated by the “Pilgrims” of Plymouth colony and their Native American neighbors in the autumn of 1621. Although generally a familiar story to many...
To borrow from Romans 6:23 [“The wages of sin is (spiritual) death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord”], I contend that the wages of critical race theory is cultural death, but the gift of God is the understanding that all people are created...
Last week I wrote an essay on our Areopagus Facebook page and website entitled “Don’t Trust Anyone’s Judgement Who Didn’t See This Coming” that began with this warning: Here is a simple lesson in prudential judgment:Don’t trust anyone’s judgement on any political,...
📄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 Revolution won’t happen with guns, rather it will happen incrementally, year by year, generation by generation. We will gradually infiltrate their educational institutions and their political offices, transforming them slowly into Marxist entities.” – Max Horkheimer