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Naming the Darkness: A Biblical Look at the Present Moment

One of the recurring themes of this blog is the apparent lukewarmness of the Western church, the growing spiritual darkness of Western society, and the relationship between them. One way to explore this is to look at specific cultural and political examples through a Biblical lens — not primarily as political commentary, but as spiritual…

Finding Kingdom Hope Beyond Empire

The church today seems lukewarm, a description that was given to the church in Laodicea, one of the seven churches in Revelation: lots of activity, but ultimately ineffective. I’m not the only one making this observation. Much has been written about the decline of Christianity in the global West, especially in America, and the possible…

Pride and the Things of This World

President Trump’s pattern of renaming public institutions and government programs after himself — from the U.S. Institute of Peace to the Kennedy Center, from a new class of battleships to prescription drug benefits and children’s savings accounts — seems to offer a good contemporary illustration of what the Bible calls “the pride of life.” In…

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