📄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 – 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 – 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,...
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...
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,...
📘American Crisis: Cultural Marxism and The Culture War: A Christian Response Centre•Pointe Publishing, 2020 No. of pages: 425 Price: $22.95 Available at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08DDRM6JQ The Purpose American Crisis is an incisive study and analysis of the origins,...
“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
Do COVID-19 Vaccines Contain Aborted Fetal Cells? Michael B. Sabom, M.D. originally posted 01/22/2021 Note: The following information is based on my experience in the medical field (Internal Medicine and Cardiology), my understanding of the best epidemiology research...
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 Most Consequential Election Since 1860 –And the Choice Could Not Be Clearer Those who endured the first presidential “debate” (or more accurately, “brawl”) of 2020 on September 30th witnessed perhaps the most disgusting public debacle in the annals of American...
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...
On Loving One’s Neighbor as Oneself Many Christians have been led to believe that we should be as neutral as possible on the great social and political issues of our time so as to eliminate any unnecessary distractions or impediments in our witness to others. After...
📄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...
In the apostle Paul’s epistle to the church in Philippi, he writes: “Finally,… whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable, If anything is excellent or praiseworthy, think about such things.” Paul...
📄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...
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 – 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 – 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 – 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...