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An Evangelical Pastor in Ukraine – Religion & Liberty Online
A lot can happen in nine months. A baby grows from a tiny fleck invisible to the naked eye into a full-size infant and is born. A school year begins and ends. Winter, spring, and summer pass by, giving way to fall. Crops are planted and a…
How the Church Once Governed – Religion & Liberty Online
The prelapsarian order enjoys a diversity of interpretations in the modern imagination. For some, it represents a prosperous symbiotic relationship between an originally vegetarian human civilization and creation: “The Lord God took the man and…
Calvinist Critical Theory – Religion & Liberty Online
God at Work: Loving God and Neighbor Through the Book of Exodus, a new book from Anthony Bradley, Distinguished Research Fellow at the Acton Institute and professor of interdisciplinary and theological studies at Kuyper College, is not another…
Man, Not Ape
What is man that You are mindful of him, And the son of man that You visit him? For You have made him a little lower than the angels, And You have crowned him with glory and honor. Continue Reading... Source link
Taking Charles Murray Seriously – Religion & Liberty Online
All happy conversion stories are alike. Every unhappy conversion story is unhappy in its own way. Is how Tolstoy might have put it, if he weren’t, you know, dead. Charles Murray, he of Bell Curve fame and attendant controversy, has gotten…
We Are All Dependent—And That’s Our Strength – Religion & Liberty Online
Leah Libresco Sargeant’s The Dignity of Dependence: A Feminist Manifesto depicts a human ideal for the post-industrial workforce. Such a human can work any number of hours, has no personal entanglements, and suffers from no bodily needs: Through…
The Virtue of Patriotism – Religion & Liberty Online
The debate over Christian nationalism has made some Christians sheepish about extolling the virtues of being American. It’s time to reclaim patriotism as a Christian virtue. Read More… As an American who grew up amid the Cold War, patriotism had…
The Question of Thomas More – Religion & Liberty Online
A new biography of a great man, especially one whose life is already rich with lore, is a delicate task. There is the temptation to attempt something new, or worse, to try to make the story “relevant”—even “urgent,” heaven forbid—by inserting…
Will the Big Bang Go Pop? – Religion & Liberty Online
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was…