“Prepare your minds for action” is the admonition of 1 Peter 1:13. That’s proactive apologetics. In this category I want to help you apply a biblical worldview.
Major American businesses are scrambling to prove how woke and virtuous they are. The simplest way to do that is to bow to the whims of Critical Race Theory. So, in August, Bank of America, Lowe’s Home Improvement, and Truist Financial sponsored a United Way “Racial Equity 21-Day Challenge.” The “challenge” claims that America is systemically and institutionally racist and encourages participants to get “woke at work” while urging white people to “cede power to…
Summer is winding down, and students are returning to college. Whether they learn while seated, while remote, or while masked or unmasked will largely hinge on how your institution is waging the war against Covid. But either way, colleges will be back in action. But another war continues to rage in our colleges. It’s the war against objective truth. Higher education is soaked in worldviews and values that challenge, ignore, or overtly attack a…
Five years ago, for most of us, Critical Race Theory (CRT) was barely a blip on our radar. But now it dominates our cultural conversation, pushed to the forefront by activists who claim to advocate racial justice, diversity, and economic equality. Now the tentacles of CRT are stretching into public education. CRT advocates are adding it to curricula for lower grades, but in New York, Nevada, Virginia and other school systems, parents are pushing back,…
In early April, writer and blogger Paul C. Maxwell announced he was no longer a Christian, joining the trend of professing Gens Y and Z Christians who have abandoned the faith. Whether you are familiar with Maxwell depends on how much time you spend online reading articles or hanging out where postmodernists and millennials wrestle with their faith, or whether you are a fan of John Piper’s Desiring God ministry where Maxwell had been a…
Outspoken atheist Bill Maher closed his “Real Time” HBO show February 5 ranting against Christianity. Such invective is common for Maher, but this tirade was shamelessly biased, infused with unveiled hatred, and remarkably uninformed. And we need to pay attention. Since the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol riot, secularists and postmodern progressives have seized upon any opportunity to cast the Jan. 6 riot as an illustration of hateful Christians, claiming that evangelical Christians were kowtowing to…
Something just doesn’t add up in Oregon. Following trends in our postmodern “woke” culture that seek to discard any evidence of objective truth, Oregon’s Department of Education announced that it would promote “dismantling racism” in its math classes. The reason? To pursue “math equity” and to improve “engagement [and] equitable outcomes for Black, Latinx, and multilingual students.” To achieve this purpose, the Oregon Dept. of Education has created the “Pathway to Equitable Math Instruction,” a…
At the close of 2020, former President Barak Obama was enjoying a fresh jolt of popularity. His memoirs had hit the digital bookshelves, he was being interviewed by nearly every news outlet, and he received the “Voice of Influence Award” from the free-speech advocacy organization, PEN America. And, not surprisingly, as he took laps around the speaking circuit, he was asked to weigh in on the leftward drift and the new, progressive agenda driving many…
If I take the Covid-19 vaccine, am I accepting the mark of the Beast mentioned in Revelation 13? Kanye West thinks so. The rapper, now an outspoken Christian, suggested in a July 2020 interview with Forbes Magazine that the Covid-19 vaccine might include the mark of the Beast referenced in Revelation 13:11-18. Whether you have read the Bible or not, you are likely familiar with the “mark of the Beast,” 666, from references in pop…
In early October, Chris Pratt, star of Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy, was promoting his Pixar film “Onward” and encouraging his fans on Instagram to vote for this year’s People’s Choice Awards. And because the awards happened to land during the contentious election, he joked, “With all that’s going on in the world, it is more important than ever that you vote. Just ask any celebrity. They will tell you…to vote. But me? I will…
Author and pastor John Piper published a blog on October 22 that has gained lots of attention, responses, and retorts. And the article has fostered a needed conversation among Christians about voting in this election. In the article, “Policies, Persons, and Paths to Ruin,” posted on the Desiring God website, Piper scathingly denounces Trump for his appalling character, not by name but without nuance, and he implies that voting for Trump cannot be justified just…