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In recurrent health and economic threats we must remember that the Scripture warns us that life is a battle, that we will face evil days of crisis and tragedy, and that we must put on the whole armor of God if we are to survive and be victorious. "Put on all God's...
OUR RESPONSE TO THE CURRENT EMERGENCY
As I listen and watch the news about the spread of the coronavirus, the drop in the oil price and the stock market, the cancellation of sports, entertainment and political events, the closure of college classes and nursing homes, I ask myself what my response should...
FREEDOM OF SPEECH: THE CURRENT IDEOLOGICAL DEBATE
Jordan Peterson, Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto, has become an international celebrity due to his online lectures on YouTube and his bestseller, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos. In his biography Savage Messiah: How Dr. Jordan Peterson is...
WHAT ARE THE TEMPTATIONS WE COMMONLY EXPERIENCE?
On the first Sunday in Lent we read about the temptations of Jesus by the devil in the wilderness (Matthew 4:1-11; Mark 1:12,13; Luke 4:1-13). It is an archetype of the spiritual conflict we experience on a daily basis. What are the temptations we commonly experience?...
A PRAYER FOR LENT
On November 14, 1940, a German air-raid passed over the center of England. The medieval cathedral of Coventry was left a burnt-out shell. In 1962 a new cathedral was consecrated which I visited a couple of years later. It is strikingly beautiful with its Sutherland...
A PRAYER FOR ASH WEDNESDAY
Perhaps the most neglected aspect of the Christian life is confession. It is hard for us to admit that we are sinners, and in need of forgiveness. Since the prevailing culture promotes doing whatever makes you feel good without guilt, and refuses to allow judging...
WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE ABOUT THE DEVIL?
The eye of a hurricane is deceptive. All is calm. You think that the worst of the storm is over but it has only just begun. The backside of the storm can be worse than the front. All that was damaged before is subjected to another battering. Whatever was weakened is...
WHY PARTISANSHIP IS INEVITABLE IN POLITICS
During this primary presidential election season and the rhetoric it encourages for and against the political parties and their leaders there is the tendency to bemoan the current state of our divisions and to lay claim that it has gotten worse. Alexander Hamilton in...
THE TRUTH ABOUT EVIL
What is the source of radical evil that seeks to corrupt and pervert the human race? What causes violence, cruelty, genocide, self-centeredness, abuse, neglect and war? Jeffrey Burton Russell writes: “We are again aware of the ineradicable nature of perversity in our...
THE PROBLEM OF SUFFERING
Peter Vardy and Julie Arliss in The Thinker’s Guide to Evil, maintain that “evil is one of the deepest and most central problems of human existence.” They analyze various sources of evil. First, the freedom of human beings to choose to be selfish, self-centered and to...
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