Category: Mission
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The Heritage-Consuming World Of Modernity
Nietzsche famously proclaimed (or more accurately, prophesied) the death of God, and while Christians would contend that such news has been greatly exaggerated (to quote Mark Twain), most would agree that society is following Nietzsche’s prophecy in practice. Modern society certainly seems to be functioning as if God is absent. We typically see this as…
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Future Light In Present Darkness
The speed of light is approximately 186,000 miles per second – a speed impossible to wrap our minds around. But the universe is massive on a scale that makes even such incomprehensible speed seem somehow not fast enough. For example, the sun is around 93 million miles away from earth. This means it takes a…
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Engage The Culture, Not The Culture War
Erwin Rommel, a military general under Nazi Germany, is quoted as saying, “in the absence of orders, find something and kill it.” While this may strike us as amusing on the surface, it reveals the dark nature of war. War frames everything it touches in the context of war; all of life becomes about war,…