Monthly Archives: July 2015
Our culture got a little darker, a bit blander over the last several weeks. Ultimately, all these efforts to redefine culture are but the cries of the spiritually empty. The anger that seems out of proportion to the issues at hand is actually the sound of profound spiritual hunger pangs seeking living bread and being force-fed cultural happy meals. In the…..
Dear Culture,
I want to thank you for all the good times and the technological marvels that you have created to make our lives easier, but I am concerned that you have lost your vision. You used to provide practical solutions to life’s problems but now seem obsessed with denying those problems even exist. You have lost your…..
Postmodernism arose as a response to the modernist claims that truth is determined scientifically and that life is nothing but chemicals. It didn’t like the idea of universal truth whether it was scientific, religious, or philosophical. It bristled at the thought of science as the new sheriff in town, especially since they thought they had already demoted the previous religious and government law…..
The Old Testament prophets were an interesting bunch. God recruited them often kicking and screaming to speak His hard words to an ungrateful people. He didn’t wait until they had completed prophet school, or taken a class in rhetoric. He didn’t offer a masters program in God speak, or an in-service on workplace violence. Yet God used…..
Mankind’s illusory sophistication has sadly resulted in his uncanny ability to separate ideas from reality. He frequently quotes authors, promotes their philosophies, and then surprisingly neglects the fact that those very ideas failed in the laboratory of life. How is it possible that Nietzsche can be elevated to the status of postmodern philosophical hero when this superman was woefully…..
