Let me state up front: I don’t particularly like this post. I don’t think a single post on this topic will ever be adequate. In this final post of my review/analysis of Rod Dreher’s book, The Benedict Option, I’m going to address a few things that are bound to make everyone, Evangelicals especially, feel uncomfortable,…
How should Christians today navigate the current cultural landscape? That’s really the fundamental question Rod Dreher addresses in his book, The Benedict Option. In my previous posts, I’ve given an overview of the book as a whole, and I’ve touched upon the hottest “hot button” topic the book mentions: the gay marriage/LGBTQ debates. In this…
The Benedict Option by Rod Dreher has certainly garnered a lot of attention over the past month. As I mentioned in Part 1 of my overview of Dreher’s book, it has been rather lambasted by progressive Christians, and if you google the book’s title, you’ll see it has gotten support from more conservative Christian circles….
In yesterday’s post, I began to look at an article by the AiG resident astronomer Danny Faulkner, “Does the Bible Teach the Earth is Flat?” In today’s post, I want to address the real “meat and potatoes” of his article: the bit that’s found in Genesis 1. So, does the Bible teach the Earth is flat?…
Yesterday morning, as I was thumbing through Twitter for a few minutes before I sat down to have my coffee at Starbucks, and then get working to preparing for my class on the Major Prophets, I noticed that the folks at Answers in Genesis had posted a new article. This one was by their astronomer,…
Rod Dreher’s book, The Benedict Option, has garnered quite a lot of attention over the past month. According to many progressives, it is alarmist tripe that is rooted in white bitterness over their loss of white privilege. According to many conservatives, it is a clarion call to get back to being the Church. Well, to…
Last month, conservative writer Rod Dreher came out with a book entitled, The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation. Now, I had no idea who Rod Dreher was or what the book was about. I stumbled across it while thumbing through my twitterfeed one day. While flipping through Twitter, I happened…
As one should be able to see from the last number of posts, the 19th century was a pivotal century. There was the struggle for the soul of European Christianity, there was the birth of Marxism, there was Darwin’s theory of evolution, and there was Nietzsche’s maddening philosophical hammer. And amidst all that, poets, novelists,…
When I was in college, I fell in love with poetry and literature, and some of the most influential literature I came across of that of the 19th century Romantics and Transcendentalists. In my freshman and sophomore years, American writers like Walt Whitman and Ralph Waldo Emerson sparked my imagination, and then it was on…
The other day, I received a short note from someone who had a question regarding one of my posts on Ken Ham. He asked, “Since Ken Ham says that the evidence for YEC is all a matter of interpretation, is he subtly admitting that either YEC has no evidence (like he claims evolution doesn’t) or…