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 Something quite terrifying is apparently happening to the American mind, or at least the more youthful portion of it. It appears to be rapidly losing its capacity for rational thought. Instead of thinking, increasingly it simply seems to “feel.” In short, it looks as if we, as a people, are swiftly devolving from the sapient . . . → Read More: Losing the American mind’s capacity for rational thought ‘It ain’t necessarily so. It ain’t necessarily so. Things that you’re liable to read in the Bible, they ain’t necessarily so.’ So goes one of the most popular hits from the 1935 opera Porgy and Bess. These words, however, didn’t necessarily spring forth unprompted from the depths of a cynical secular mind. ‘It ain’t necessarily . . . → Read More: Biblical theories that ‘ain’t necessarily so’ The Fourth of July has a special significance for me and, I suspect, most people who, like me, were born elsewhere. It marks the 240th anniversary of the declaration that every living person has the right to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”— thus giving birth to the most exceptional nation on earth. When . . . → Read More: Hooray for the Fourth of July; down with political correctness 
It is a sobering commentary on the contrariness of fate that the spiritual train wreck currently emptying America’s mainline churches started life 60 years ago as a bold new initiative aimed at packing the pews. The 1950s Organisation Man was giving way to the Beat Generation, and the world stood at the threshold of the . . . → Read More: A bold initiative to pack the pews empties them This year’s presidential election has evoked emotions ranging from elation to outrage, from depression to desperation. The problem is not just that politicians are generally held in low esteem, but that outsiders are also viewed by many with equal contempt. And, perhaps not coincidentally, the hierarchies and clergy of America’s mainline churches are regarded with . . . → Read More: How about this for a cure for the presidential blues? 
Popular historians often append labels to past eras: The 18th Century, for example, is variously known as the Age of Reason and the Age of Revolution, while the early 19th Century was approvingly dubbed the Age of Elegance. On such precedents, one might reasonably call the early 21st Century ‘the Age of Ugliness’—and by no . . . → Read More: Charity will help tame our ‘Age of Ugliness’ Most ‘Bible movies’ are, with a few notable exceptions, sorry evangelists for the Christian faith. Those loosely based on the New Testament generally portray a fey, willowy, Anglo-Saxon Jesus wafting limpidly around an arid landscape, occasionally uttering ‘sound bites’ randomly culled from the Gospels. The only redeeming aspect of this type of Bible movie . . . → Read More: Enough of the ‘Great Unwashed’ It’s rather odd, when you come to think about it, that people will often complain about parsons who preach the word of God for more than 10 minutes at a stretch when they will cheerfully let Hollywood’s self-styled solons preach to them for hours on end. True, Hollywood’s leading ladies are infinitely cuter than . . . → Read More: It’s time for out-of-touch Hollywood to heal itself It has become a tradition over the past few decades for anti-Christians in politics, the media, and academia to declare open season on the Christian Faith during the run up to the most important festivals in the Church year. So steel yourselves for a barrage of incoming fire that will intensify as Easter approaches. . . . → Read More: Rome’s martyrs got what was coming to them My dental hygienist is a kindly, accomplished young woman with a gentle touch and a remarkable tolerance for a mouthful of sadly abused ‘British teeth’. During a recent visit, we chatted about the state of the economy and the difficulty the average family faced in trying to survive on a single wage. ‘My grandmother . . . → Read More: Stay-at-home mother as prophet of doom |
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