One of the greatest legacies left by C. Everett Koop, who died Monday at age 96, is his witness to the role of faith in public life. By the time he ended his eight years as Surgeon General of the United States in 1989, he was claimed as a saint… [more]
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Why ‘novels of belief’ are the exception, not the rule
In a keen New York Times essay published last month - “Has Fiction Lost its Faith?” - Paul Elie notes correctly that “if any patch of our culture can be said to be post-Christian, it is literature.” Indeed, as culture goes, so literature goes. And of all literature, it is… [more]
Mankind and Christianity through the eyes of history
In the postmodern play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Tom Stoppard turned Shakespeare’s Hamlet inside out. The tragic Prince of Denmark received but a cameo as two blink-and-you’ll-miss-them Hamlet characters took center stage. This was their story. However, part of the absurdist comedy’s point was that although this was their… [more]
The housewives of Galilee County
As a pastor, one of the most enjoyable parts of my job is doing basic Bible study in preparation for preaching and teaching. This week I was working through John 5. John 5 follows the typical pattern of the Gospel of John, with a "sign" and a discourse section that… [more]
Defining just cyberwarfare
As a Christian who holds to the tenets of just war theory (JWT), I was struck by an online article last month in The Atlantic wherein Patrick Lin, Fritz Allhoff and Neil Rowe questioned whether a cyberwar could be initiated and subsequently waged according to JWT. The article insists that… [more]
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Jason E. Summers Indeed, Dr. Koop was familiar with Kuyper and his thought, via (among other sources) the Center for Public Justice, for which he served as an Adviser and from which he received the 1998 leadership award (http://www.cpjustice.org/node/45).
C. Everett Koop as a Christian in the public square
Tim Hendrickson One of the reasons why the novel of belief is so rare is (that) the literary establishment would either ignore such a work or read its belief as less than genuine.
Why 'novels of belief' are the exception, not the rule
Paul Sherratt If Dickens wrote (A Christmas Carol) today he would change the emphasis on ignorance to an emphasis on apathy. For it is apathy which we Christians fight against more than ignorance in the 21st century.
Charles Dickens and tales of Providence
Siarlys Jenkins Music snobs who like things done decently and in good order are not limited to any one racial category, nor are experiments in integration the same thing as appeasing young people...
MLK and defying 'the most segregated hour'
Ed It looks to me like older, beautiful urban churches find themselves in problems as much for the lack of real vision on the part of the believers who attend them as anything else.
When historic churches suffer Esau congregations