📄The Areopagus Update - October/November 2024 Discerning the times in which we live... and a faithful Christian response American Crisis: Cultural Marxism and the Culture War – A Christian Response by Jefrey D. Breshears The philosophical and historical origins of...
📄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 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 – 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 – 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,”...
In keeping with the old Chinese curse, “May you live in ‘interesting’ times,” this has certainly been an ‘interesting’ year. In fact, it has been in many respects a ‘perfect storm’ marked by an unprecedented degree of domestic chaos, dysfunction and disruption as...
📄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 – 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 – 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...
In the course of reading reviews and listening to comments over the past couple of months regarding Rod Dreher’s The Benedict Option, it has occurred to me that some kind of Preface needs to precede any kind of thoughtful and focused discussion of the book. In...
In the 1992 presidential campaign, Bill Clinton’s advisors sensed that despite all the issues that might impact the election – whether foreign, domestic, or personal – the overriding concern was the economy. They were so convinced of this that they adopted a kind of...
📄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...