Finally a new episode, and we belatedly continue our journey through C.R. Wiley's Book, The Household and the War for the Cosmos: Recovering a Christian Vision for the Family . Next time we'll conclude this study, and I plan to do that soon!
In this first episode of 2025, we continue to work through C.R. Wiley's 2019 book, The Household and the War for the Cosmos: Recovering a Christian Vision for the Family .
Wrapping up the year with the thirtieth episode of 2024, looking back over the year that was, and forward to the year of our Lord 2025!
In this week's episode we continue to consider the household, and the challenges that this foundational institution is facing in today's world. Policy Horizons Canada has produced a study that includes a number of conclusions about the nature and future of the household, and in this episode we'll work through that document, to see what kinds of conclusions that the "think tanks" of the Canadian bureaucracy are arriving at. The Policy Horizons study can be found here: https://horizons.service.can...
In this week's episode, we begin a study of C.R. Wiley's excellent 2019 book, The Household and the War for the Cosmos: Recovering a Christian Vision for the Family , published by Canon Press. What has happened to the household, and how can we recover the Biblical understanding of the household and its foundational role in every part of society? Those are the questions that C.R. Wiley seeks to answer in this book, and I think he provides some very helpful and thought-provoking insights that will...
In this week's episode, we look at the final chapter and conclusion of Andrew Isker's book, "The Boniface Option."
In this episode we continue to work through Andrew Isker's The Boniface Option, focusing our attention on Chapters 9, 10, and 11 - "Brotherhood," "Made For War," and "A New Eve."
Continuing our look at Andrew Isker's 2023 book The Boniface Option , we begin Part II: "Transforming the Felled Trees of Trashworld into a New Christendom."
In today's episode, we continue our study of Andrew Isker's 2023 book, The Boniface Option - chapters 5 and 6, "Jezebel," and "Bugmen in the Cocoon."
Today we continue our deep dive into Andrew Isker's 2023 book, The Boniface Option, focusing on chapters three and four.
In this episode we continue our deep dive look at Andrew Isker's 2023 book, The Boniface Option, focusing our attention on chapters one and two.
In this week's episode we begin a "deep dive" into Andrew Isker's 2023 book, The Boniface Option.
In today's episode, we conclude our look at Aaron Renn's 2024 book, Life in the Negative World.
This week we look at the third section of Aaron Renn's book, on "Leading Institutionally." In "Negative World," Christians must (1) pursue institutional integrity, (2) pursue community strength, and (3) pursue ownership.
In this week's episode we continue to work through Aaron Renn's Life in the Negative World, discussing the ways in which we as individuals must deal with life in a world that has become negative toward Christianity.
We continue to work our way through Aaron Renn's 2024 book Life in the Negative World: Confronting Challenges in an Anti-Christian Culture, discussing chapters 2 and 3, which describe the strategies that have been used in the Positive and Neutral Worlds, as well as a proposal for a strategy for the Negative World.
In this episode we take a break from eschatology to return to examining the state of our culture, and how we can best understand and relate to the culture in which we live. This is the first in a series on Aaron Renn's new book, Life in the Negative World: Confronting Challenges in an Anti-Christian Culture.
In this episode we discuss the woman and the dragon of Revelation 12, and the sea beast, land beast, and mark of the beast of Revelation 13, along with that infamous number, 666!
In today's episode we return to the book of Revelation and discuss Rev. 10 and 11 - the great angel with one foot on the sea and the other on the land, the little scroll that he has in his hand, the seven thunders, and the two witnesses.
In this episode we return to the issue of "the last days," and check out what Scripture says about the last days, in contrast with "the last day."
In this episode we continue to look at important eschatological terms, focusing our attention on the "new creation," or the "new heavens and new earth." as well as "the last days."
In this episode we return to the "Eschatology 101" series, and get back to the basics with a couple of definitions: "the Day of the LORD," and the word "eschatology" itself.
This week we conclude our study of Herbert Schlossberg's Idols For Destruction , with a look at the final chapter, "The New Community," in which Schlossberg provides some steps forward in working toward the destruction of the idols revealed in this book.
This week we look at Chapter Seven of Herbert Schlossberg's classic Idols For Destruction: The Conflict of Christian Faith and American Culture, "Consequences and Expectations." What are the consequences of our society's idolatries, and what can we expect in the future?
Continuing our study of Herbert Schlossberg's classic, Idols for Destruction, we've arrived at Chapter Six: Idols of Religion.
This week we continue to work through Herbert Schlossberg's classic book Idols For Destruction: The Conflict of Christian Faith and American Culture, focusing on Chapter Five, "The Idols of Power."
A discussion of Chapter IV of Herbert Schlossberg's book, Idols for Destruction: The Conflict of Christian Faith and American Culture - on "The Idols of Nature."
In this episode we continue our study of Herbert Schlossberg's Idols for Destruction , and work through Chapter 3, "The Idols of Mammon."
Today we continue our study of Herbert Schlossberg's Idols for Destruction, focusing our attention on the second chapter, The Idols of Humanity.
In this episode we look at the first chapter in Herbert Schlossberg's Idols for Destruction - The Idols of History - and consider the importance of the Christian understanding of history, and the present-day idols of history and their dangers.
