One year after Vladimir Lenin died, and three years after Sanger wrote The Pivot of Civilization, Adolph Hitler wrote Mein Kampf from a German prison. Like Lenin and Sanger, Hitler’s worldview was in large part shaped by the fallout of the Enlightenment. We must remember that despite the rhetoric of liberty and democracy during the…
Five years after Lenin wrote The State and Revolution, and two years before Joseph Stalin came to power after Lenin’s death, Margaret Sanger wrote The Pivot of Civilization. In it she made a full-fledged case for the implementation of eugenics on a national, if not global, scale. Now, I’ve discussed eugenics in an earlier post,…
It goes without saying: the first half of the 20th century witnessed the greatest atrocities in human history. And as horrific as WWI (1914-1919) was, it would pale in comparison to what was brewing in Russia in 1917. Half way through WWI, Czarist Russia found itself at a tipping point. Faced with a rising call…
I thought I’d share a few Easter poems I’ve written throughout the years. ***The first poem was in Colby, Kansas, in 1993. I was helping my sister move back to Illinois from Wyoming, and my truck continually was breaking down on the trip–we found ourselves stranded in Colby, Kansas over Easter. Easter Sunday While loved ones…
In his book, How Should We Then Live?, Francis Schaeffer said there is a “flow” to history and culture. What he meant, of course, is that what transpires in one era of any given society often is the fall-out of what had happened in the previous era. One of the fundamental things I hope that…
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,…