Category Archives: Culture

Santa Christ?

It is always easier to lament and critique the new paganism of secularism’s blatant idolatry than to see how easily the church-and we ourselves-twist or dilute the message of the incarnation in order to suit our own tastes. But sadly, we have various ways of turning the Savior into a kind of Santa Claus. Santa…

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Martin Luther’s 95 Thesis

Out of love for the truth and from desire to elucidate it, the Reverend Father Martin Luther, Master of Arts and Sacred Theology, and ordinary lecturer therein at Wittenberg, intends to defend the following statements and to dispute on them in that place. Therefore he asks that those who cannot be present and dispute with…

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5 Sinister Trends of Postmodernism

Sadly, the evangelical movement is beginning to try to accommodate itself to the postmodern perspective. Worldly Christians have absorbed postmodernist values, and it has led to the decline of evangelicalism’s commitment to the authority of Scripture. Everything evangelicalism won in our great battles with the modernism is now in jeopardy of being lost in the…

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6 Challenges of Postmodernism

1. Deconstruction of the Truth As we survey the landscape of our culture, we see the detritus of postmodernism littering the horizon. One of the biggest refuse piles on the postmodern terrain is the deconstruction of truth. Postmodernists argue that there is no such thing as absolute truth because all truth is filtered through the…

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The Science of Morality and the New Atheism

The following is the consensus statement from The Edge Foundation- a think tank for the new atheism: CONSENSUS STATEMENT 1) Morality is a natural phenomenon and a cultural phenomenon Like language, sexuality, or music, morality emerges from the interaction of multiple psychological building blocks within each person, and from the interactions of many people within…

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