Archive for the 'Church & State' Category

The Church Engaging Culture

February 21, 2008

Tullian Tchividjian writes about the necessary strategy that the church must employ if we are ever going to faithfully engage our culture.  

“The world”, says Richard John Neuhaus, “desperately needs the Church to be the Church”, not to do church differently.  The difference that people are longing for, in other words, is a difference in being, [...]

Robert George on The Law and Moral Purpose

December 29, 2007

This essay by Robert George is an important and excellent introduction to help Christians guide their thinking about the function of government, and in particular how the law and morality relate to abortion and marriage.  

Robert P. George is McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at [...]

A Defense of the Use of the Bible in Schools

December 28, 2007

Defending the use of the Bible in public schools may not be surprising or significant except that this was written by one of signers of the Declaration of Independence. 

Dr. Benjamin Rush (1745-1813), was a distinguished physician and signer of the Declaration of Independence in 1776. Dr. Rush was an outspoken Christian, statesman, and pioneering medical [...]

Systematic Dismembering of Culture

December 15, 2007

In his article “No Other Gods” Robert Wilken talks about how secularism has undermined our culture:   

Practical atheism, that is to say, secularism, has undermined beliefs, attitudes, and conventions that have nurtured our civilization for centuries. The changes we are witnessing are not the inevitable alterations by which older ways adapt to new circumstances. They are [...]

Comparisons Between Speeches of Mitt Romney and President Kennedy

December 15, 2007

In his latest newsletter, Newt Gingrich tells us why he thinks “comparisons being made between presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s speech last week and President John Kennedy’s speech in 1960 are wrong in a fundamental way.”  

December 11, 2007 - Vol. 2, No. 50 

…“It occurred to me that all the historical comparisons being made between presidential candidate Mitt [...]

Mitt Romney’s Historic Speech

December 9, 2007

For some balanced analysis of Mitt Romney’s historic speech on “Faith in America” you might just check out a few posts by Justin Taylor who has already sorted through a bunch of material for you. 

For the text of the speech go HERE or to view it you may go HERE. 

Here is my favorite part of [...]

William Bradford: Man of God

November 24, 2007

In his book, Ecclesiastical History of New-England (originally published in 1702) Cotton Mather, describes William Bradford, the governor of the Plymouth Colony in this way:   

“He was a person for study as well as action; and hence, notwithstanding the difficulties through which he passed in his youth, he attained unto a notable skill in languages: the [...]

Rediscovering God in America

November 14, 2007

In his latest newsletter, Newt Gingrich writes:  

One of the main reasons I wrote Rediscovering God in America: Reflections on the Role of Faith in Our Nation’s History and Future was to combat this anti-religious bigotry. As I mentioned last week, Rediscovering God in America has now been made into a documentary movie, featuring Callista, me and [...]

American Values

October 5, 2007

Gary Bauer is president of American Values, a non-profit organization “committed to defending life, traditional marriage, and equipping our children with the values necessary to stand against liberal education and cultural forces.” 

Gary offers an End of Day Report, which is a  daily roundup of the day’s major stories and insightful commentary on what’s happening inside [...]

Dr. D. James Kennedy (1930 – 2007)

September 6, 2007

Officials with Coral Ridge Ministries have confirmed that Dr. D. James Kennedy passed away early this morning.  Dr. D. James Kennedy served many years as senior pastor of Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. 

“Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.”  “Yes,” says the Spirit, “they will rest from [...]