All men are born and remain free and equal in rights. —Declaration of the Rights of Man (1789) Never did He make two things the same; never did He utter one word twice. . . All is righteousness ...
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Can We Hope To Maintain Healthy Families In This Culture?
A healthy, happy family… the few who truly have that know what a blessing it can be. It’s something we want for ourselves, something we want to give to our children … something America increasingly just doesn’t have. It’s not ...
Read More »Suggestions for Homegrown Chicken Feed
Dear Joel, What plants should be grown in the home garden to feed a small flock of chickens so commercial feed is not needed? How do you recommend accomplishing this? Thank you! -Laura W. Read the answer…
Read More »Cultural Transmission and the Failure of American Social Studies
American citizenship means hard work, temperance, morality, and the habit of right living. —Samuel Chapman Armstrong, founder of Hampton Institute Business norms and values in the early social studies came, not from industry, but from a school whose special task ...
Read More »Transmitting Christian Culture to Our Children
It is this, the human ability to create and transmit culture, that differentiates us as humans from the rest of the animal world. —Nancy Jarvis, “What Is a Culture?” Religion and Culture Culture is religion externalized. Or put the other ...
Read More »Polytheism and Pluralism
All of mankind has a basic internal "heart commitment" to someone or something. And that commitment shapes our values, our priorities, and our choices. When a nation or people share the same commitment, that commitment structures their society and creates their culture. All of us, whether we admit it or not... live in terms of the demands of our ultimate commitments. Our god not only defines good and evil for us (Gen. 3:5); but also defines our very reality. The Triune God of Scripture, however, claims to be the only real and legitimate God...
Read More »Godly Stewardship In A Cultural Crisis
The Imitation of Christ —a book by Thomas à Kempis (1418) Religion and Power There are three different religious approaches to community and freedom. The first abandons politics and society at large in the name of religion. The communities it ...
Read More »Noah and the Other Side of the Ark
Of the many influences that have shaped the United States of America into a distinctive Nation and people, none may be said to be more fundamental and enduring than the Bible. —Ronald Reagan Missing Pieces The men who wrote Scripture ...
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