by ccpwebteam | Jan 31, 2019 | Culture, Current Events
Here is a powerful article by Andrew Sullivan, on the opiate crisis in America. He writes: It’s been several decades since Daniel Bell wrote The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism, but his insights have proven prescient. Ever-more-powerful market forces actually...
by ccpwebteam | Dec 28, 2018 | Culture
There is a scene in the movie Inception which I’ve never forgotten, because I think it perfectly captures the situation of our modern culture, especially when it comes to our interaction with mass visual media. In the movie, there is a technology which lets...
by ccpwebteam | Dec 4, 2018 | Culture, Humanity
Paul Tripp has an interesting article he entitled “The Bad News about Christmas.” Here’s the heart of it: Remember, the miracle of Jesus’s birth is that he was fully God and fully man. God gave himself to us in outrageous redemptive love. God exposed...
by ccpwebteam | Feb 1, 2018 | Culture, Current Events, Technology
Check out this paragraph from a comment posted to a popular blog, on the issue of immigration and Americans who fear for their communities: We (as in, human beings in the 21st century) are probably having a tougher time assimilating people into our communities than we...
by ccpwebteam | Dec 15, 2017 | Christian History, Culture
Here’s another excellent post by Dr. Michael Kruger, offering (as always) some important historical perspective to our situation, as we move forward into the future. As you now know, my book on the second century has just been released in the UK: Christianity at...
by ccpwebteam | Nov 3, 2017 | Culture
It’s not the only thing that’s important, but it is really important for us to be able to think, in public, out-loud, as Christians, in our world. This is especially true in hotly-contested (and life-or-death) issues like abortion. I recently ran across...