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Regarding moral standards we have two basic options: acknowledge an objective/transcendent moral standard, or sculpt some form of morality for ourselves, i.e. relativism. (A third option, evolved morality, is not morality at all > previous post)  The argument here is not that a person must believe in God in order to recognize right and wrong…

The standard kilogram is a cylinder of platinum and iridium kept under three glass domes (left) accessible by three separate keys in Sevres, France. But there is a problem; it is losing mass–on a minute, atomic level–but enough to create alarm for the International Bureau of Weights and Measures. Speaking at Hillsdale College, NY Sun…

I’m not sure where Bono stands regarding Christ’s lordship over his life, but he offers great explanations regarding the faith: “But I love the idea of the Sacrificial Lamb. I love the idea that God says: Look, you cretins, there are certain results to the way we are, to selfishness, and there’s a mortality as…

A second standard Google uses to measure a site’s relevance is connectivity. Being linked to many other sites helps the browser ranking of your site. So how does this apply to sharing our faith? Merely bumping into a lot of people and hitting them with the gospel or trying to one-up them in a debate…

My point in the last post was that using fashionable means to try to show the relevance of our faith to the popular culture will only go so far. The substance of Christianity is the most relevant message in the world: 1) God is holy and people are not. 2) A savior is needed to reconcile…

How can we make Christianity more relevant? Should we wear geeky-chic glasses and metro-sexual clothing? Stop believing in Hell? Carry skinny Bibles? Have coffee shops in our lobbies and lasers in our services? Preach sermons from an iPad? This is all window dressing (except the part about Hell), but what substantive things can we do?…

Author, intellectual, and cultural critic, Camille Paglia, is outspoken about her atheism, feminism, and homosexuality but is also a frequent critic of all of these things. Here is a typical quote from The Morning News interview with Robert Birnbaum (Aug. 2005): “So I am very concerned about the cultural future of the United States in…

In explaining that everyone has the moral law within them, Paul says in Rom. 2:14-15 that the Gentiles are a law for themselves even though they don’t have the law (Scripture) “since they show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts now accusing,…

You’re probably accustomed to thinking about secularism as anything non-religious. That’s partially true, but that doesn’t explain its appeal or its power to influence the culture. Secularism means current = authoritative. The ideas and values of today’s culture are the standard by which all other ideas are judged. Anything that came on the scene before…

From the Guilford County Commissioners’ Meeting 4/7/11:

Yes, those are five words I thought I would never say. But consider LW’s comment reported in World Magazine after he read the Bible for the first time during a stint in prison last year:  “It was deep! Like the parts where some character was once this, but he ended up being that. Like he’d…