The Foundation, Western Civilization, and the Coming Cultural Implosion
Isaac Asimov’s science fiction classic The Foundation bears similarities to our Western condition and prompts us to ask whether we are ready as God’s people for what is to come.
Steven R. Martins
Kirthundia and Christendom
What we do for the Lord, and for the sake of the gospel, matters in the grand scheme of God’s redemptive plan for creation.
Lament for the West
Jesus lamented over the spiritual condition of Chorazin, Bethsaida, and Capernaum. Should we lament over the condition of the West?
Night and Day and the Marriage Bed
We live in a world that dishonors marriage, but the writer of Hebrews exhorts us to honor it. What does the latter mean?
A World Where AI Exists
How are we to regard AI? Is AI unethical and/or dangerous? Can AI serve a noble, righteous end? Questions abound in this cultural fog.
Prayer Changes Things
Prayer changes things. When we pray, we are asking God to change things. And when He answers prayer, He does change things.
The Beginning of Wisdom
If you were to survey all of the titles in the “Self-Help” genre, you could probably begin to see how the world’s “wisdom” has been shared from culture to culture, language to language, epoch to epoch, and has converged into this one genre like a sticky mess of a hodgepodge.
In What Do We Place Our Hope?
The sun is reaching its solar maximum, people are worried about an “internet-apocalypse”, and since the pandemic we are again witnessing mass hysteria. In what, or who, do we place our trust?
The Clock is Ticking, the Ship is Sinking
It has been three years since we started the Cántaro Institute, and four years since Daniel Lobo and Julian Castaño sat with me overlooking the Costa Rican tropics and discussed the need for a reformation and renewal of the Western church and culture.
The Lens By Which We See The World
The inspired Word is the divine THESIS, the lens by which we can see the world for what it truly is, and the guiding principle by which we ought to order our lives.