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As Christians living in a sin-tainted world, we’re engaged in a struggle--a resistance if you will--against powers that are rebellious and estranged from their true King, Jesus. In Jesus we participate in his project of regaining mastery of the created order and moving it towards re-creation, a new creation that mirrors the values of God’s … Continue reading Jesus is the blueprint for a new humanity
A wise friend--John Inazu--who teaches criminal law at Washington University in St. Louis has written an insightful piece about race and criminal law in St. Louis. I encourage you to pick up and read and consider how you might do likewise where you are:John D. Inazu“You spent too much time talking about race in this … Continue reading Get mad and do something
he rate of loneliness in the U.S. has doubled in the past 30 years, says John T. Cacioppo, a psychologist and director of the Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience at the University of Chicago, who studies loneliness including analysis of several large studies. These days, he estimates, some 40% of Americans report being lonely, up from 20% in the 1980s.
As a general rule, it is true that it is futile to judge our ancestors by our current standards, however I'm not sure I'd say that Dawkins childhood was really in another "era." And while the sort of pedophilia he describes may have happened in that era, it was not acceptable then as it is not now. The difference is that then, just as Dawkins is now doing, society would have hushed it it up and minimized it, telling the child to "get over it."
The role of the Christian church in the world is to be a counter-culture, a new society that is based on the values of the kingdom and shaped by the teaching of Scripture and headed by Christ himself, a new Israel. It's important to note that the role of the church and of the state is not the same. The function of the state is to restrain evil and to promote good.
