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.
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?
We have rejected divine revelation as the basis of truths not only about God but about human nature, and in turn ignored it as the source of human understanding and human flourishing.
The responsibility of the Christian intellectual is to integrate faith and knowledge. The data, insights, facts and discoveries must not be dealt with as though they belonged to a world other than that in which faith exists.
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.
In “The Abolition of Man”, C.S. Lewis demonstrated how the public education of his day fundamentally contradicted the common aims and pedagogy and moral framework of education hitherto maintained throughout human history.
The Bible is more than a book of antiquity, it transforms hearts and nations.
We cannot make sense of suffering, or know how to resolve suffering, outside of the Judeao-Christian worldview.
The fractured individualism evident in our culture has made people seek forms of identity in pursuit of freedom, but it is a freedom never attained and at cost of the family.
Nowadays we are confronted, anew and in an insistent way, with demands for justice, by all kinds of political and social organizations, by ecclesiastical institutions and action groups. Where is justice? What is justice? Questions we must answer.