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  • Christians Need Not View the Secular World as ‘Utter Darkness’

    Christians Need Not View the Secular World as ‘Utter Darkness’0

    • April 1, 2016

    When it comes to Christians’ views of secular society, there have historically been two predominant options. One stresses the radical incommensurability of Christianity and the world—that the Christian view of the world and its values share nothing in common with the secular world. That Christianity is “light” and the world outside is utter darkness. (Many

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  • Christians Face Surge of Intolerance, Discrimination

    Christians Face Surge of Intolerance, Discrimination0

    In 2011, I served as Representative of the OSCE (Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe) for combating racism, xenophobia, and intolerance and discrimination against Christians and members of other religions. There were two other representatives for combating anti-Semitism and Islamophobia. “Other religions” meant all religions other than Judaism and Islam.The OSCE is the largest

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  • Christians Can Be ‘Secular’, Too

    Christians Can Be ‘Secular’, Too0

    When most people hear the word “secular,” they associate it with those who either don’t believe in God or don’t attend church and pray on a regular basis. That’s one of the meanings of the term described by Charles Taylor in his monumental work A Secular Age: “… secularity consists in the falling off of

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  • Christianity’s Intellectual Foundation

    Christianity’s Intellectual Foundation0

    Christianity is often derided as “unintellectual”. Yet, if you actually spend any time with those making the most dogmatic arguments about the “stupidity” of religion, particularly Christianity, you get the feeling that few of those individuals have actually engaged in any meaningful way with the intellectual tradition of Christianity. In The Spirit of Early Christian

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  • Christianity, Capitalism, and Colonialism – Nothing To Be Ashamed Of

    Christianity, Capitalism, and Colonialism – Nothing To Be Ashamed Of2

    We’ve all heard the rhetorical attacks on Western Civilization—often centered on Christianity, capitalism, or colonialism, and often on all three. Among radical leftists, the consensus is that these elements are evil, but given that each is currently or historically integral to civilization as we know it, it’s worth examining the data to determine whether they

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  • Christianity Needs to Clean Up its Own House

    Christianity Needs to Clean Up its Own House0

    Comments that one reads or hears from many Christians often revolve around the term “truth”. The “truth” is generally presented as synonymous with Christianity and is used as a way to push back against modern relativism. But what is forgotten is the inherent relativism of modern Christianity. According to Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, there are now

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