Transforming a Hostile Culture

"Never before has such terror appeared in Britain as we have now suffered from a pagan race," wrote English scholar Alcuin. He was referring ...

Harm of Radical Individualism

Many Christians have been infected with the most virulent virus of modern American life, what sociologist Robert Bellah calls “radical individualism.” ...

How Americans Rank 15 Personal Values

In a New York Times survey, the percentage of those who rated these values as “very important”:

Being responsible for your actions—97 Being in ...

The Danger of "Lite"

Christians must be careful that the fad for "liteness" does not affect their spirituality.

"We Have Met the Enemy and It Is Us!"

Twenty years ago, the question: "Does television shape our culture or merely reflect it?" held considerable interest for many scholars and social critics. ...

Sexual Disillusionment

Our society has had a decade and a half of experimentation with random sexual freedom. We have discovered that it is neither so very sexy nor so very ...

Religious Doublespeak

Churches are getting into the doublespeak spirit. ... Take the term "sin," for instance. There's a word we could all live without. I mean, who wants ...

Irreverent God Talk

You are free in our time to say that God does not exist; you are free to say that He exists and is evil; you are free to say ... that He would like to ...

Civilization in Decline

Two welfare mothers were charged with first degree murder in Miami. They left their children locked in a room and went out for a night on the town. The ...

Was Jesus a Failure?

I think we need to be constantly reminded that Jesus, by the standards of cultural success models, was a miserable failure.