Many Christians have been led to believe that we should be apolitical so as to eliminate any unnecessary distractions or impediments in our witness to others. After all, they say, what really matters is the Gospel. The implication of their argument…
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A Commentary on Andy Stanley and North Point Church’s Unconditional Conference
Following the controversial “Unconditional Conference” sponsored by North Point Community Church on September 29-30, 2023, Pastor Andy Stanley commented in his sermon on October 1 on a critical article written by Dr. Albert Mohler, President of Southern Baptist...
Give Life a Chance
📄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....
A Requiem for Afghanistan
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,...
Critical Race Theory: An Analysis
“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
The Equality Act
📄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 Looming Deluge
📄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,”...
Initial Reflections on the Elections
~PART 1 ~ I know that many Christians are disheartened and apprehensive as a result of yesterday’s election. The final count is still undecided, and we should pray for a fair and honest counting of all legal votes in states such as Nevada, Arizona, Georgia, North...
Democrats and Republicans: What’s the Difference?
Current Political Realities For the first twenty years of my adult life I sought to be as nonpartisan as possible, realizing that neither party is ideal. But the Democratic Party of the last fifty years – since its lurch leftward in 1972 with the nomination of George...
Ruminations on Race, Racism and Riots
[Note: I address these issues in considerably more depth in my forthcoming book, American Crisis: The Historical Origins and the Social and Political Consequences of America’s Culture War... and a Christian Response, due for release in July 2020.] Two Foundational...
Christianity Today Is Wrong… and Mark Galli Should Be Removed from Office
On December 19, 2019 the editor in chief of Christianity Today magazine, Mark Galli, published an editorial entitled "Trump Should Be Removed from Office," Galli’s analysis was so flawed that one is tempted to respond with something like “Mark Galli Should Be Removed...
The Areopagus Update – May/June 2018
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...