They had the shadows, we have the substance. —Matthew Henry on Colossians 1:17 The Ever Circling Years In pagan religion, man helps sustain the cycles of Nature and perhaps the universe itself through ritualistic magic. The traditional magician’s...
The kingdom of this world/Is become the kingdom of our Lord, And of His Christ, and of His Christ;/And He shall reign forever and ever… —“The Hallelujah Chorus” from Handel’s Messiah Time… it is the one unifying constant, besides death, across...
“We also predestine and condition. We decant our babies as socialized human beings, as Alphas or Epsilons, as future sewage workers or future … World controllers…” —Mr. Foster in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World (1932) “By real...
He comes to make His blessings known/Far as the curse is found. —Isaac Watts Doom and Sorrow Jesus came to a broken world—a world wracked by war and disease; a world plagued by addiction, alienation, and...
“To hold that history is in the hands of anyone but the sovereign God is to be Satanist ultimately, because control is then transferred to creation and either to unseen malignant forces or to malignant men.” – R. J. Rushdoony In...
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...
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 way...
“Give thanks and praise to the Lord and I will feel all right.” –Bob Marley 1977 “Our harvest being gotten in, our Governor sent foure men on fowling; so that we might after a more speciall manner rejoyce together, after...
When the children of Israel came out of Egypt, God led them through the wilderness. There they faced hunger and thirst, weariness, and battle (Ex. 15—17). The wilderness was to be a short-term boot camp for that generation. But when Israel...
This year marks the 400th anniversary of the publication of the Authorized Version of Scripture, the King James Bible. Of course, King James Stuart of England didn’t do the translating. He did, however, arrange for one of the most skilled...
Every culture represents a hope, or a loss of hope… Civilizations crumble when men lose hope. —Rousas J. Rushdoony, Revolt Against Maturity (1977) In war there is no substitute for victory. —General Douglas MacArthur Giants in the Earth We...
He chose the eve of All Saints’ Day…because this was one of the most frequented feasts, and attracted professors, students, and people from all directions to the church, which was filled with relics. —Philip Schaff, History of the Christian...
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