Posted in Politics and Society on 01. Sep, 2009
History is the story of God’s past providence in the lives of people. This is true for major events: Constantine battling at Milvian Bridge, Luther protesting at Wittenberg, King James commissioning the Bible that bears his name, Whitefield going on tour in America, Revere sending out the alarm en route to Lexington, and Patton storming [...]
Posted in Faith and Spirituality on 20. Nov, 2008
Within a generation of Christ’s death and resurrection, the church broke free from the orbit of Jerusalem and swerved into the path of the Gentile world and its bewildering array of pantheons, temples, astrologists, sorcerers, philosophers, and mystery cults.
Posted in Politics and Society on 31. Oct, 2008
What’s the connection between political campaigns and megachurches? As this post explains, the secret to building a successful megachurch is in evangelizing people inside cultural subsets rather than imploring people to venture outside of their subset. Political machines are putting the same strategy to use. Here’s the underlying cultural dynamic at play: Neighbors witnessing to [...]
Posted in Politics and Society on 20. Jun, 2007
Despite their obvious differences, Das Kapital and The Wealth of Nations share at least one similarity: Nobody reads them. In the case of Karl Marx, this is no tragedy. Thanks to the colorful antics of history (many of them sticky and sanguinary), anyone can see that the bewhiskered dreamer was full of crap. Not so with [...]
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