In what has become a short series of articles (the first was on marriage; see here), Tim Challies offers “If Satan Wrote a Book on Parenting,” listing nineteen pieces of “advice” Satan might give parents about raising children in today’s world. With how plugged into this culture we tend to …
In “Against Autonomy,” T.M. Suffield writes about the present cultural emphasis on autonomy, that is, being one’s authentic self without regard to how it may affect others and society. We see autonomy most vividly as the underlying philosophy behind the transgender movement, where mostly young people, contrary to all facts …
This essay, titled “Why We Homeschool,” appeared in the CGG Weekly of July 14, 2006. “Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.” —Proverbs 22:6 Back in the early years of the homeschooling phenomenon, its advocates were …
I wrote this essay, “America’s Imminent Perfect Storm,” for CGG Weekly on May 19, 2006. After fifteen years, the same stormclouds, now darker, swirl about us. “[For behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, takes away from Jerusalem and from Judah] the mighty man and the man of war, the …
This essay, “A Culture in Freefall,” was published in CGG Weekly on February 14, 2003. “And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.” —Genesis 2:25 Not too long ago, Americans could sneer across the Atlantic at the abysmal state of European moral standards. A …
Dr. Jon D. Payne has written an excellent article, “Words Matter: Recovering Godly Speech in a Culture of Profanity,” on the rampant use of foul language in our society. I have also noticed just how pervasive it is throughout our culture, with many of the four-letter words we were punished …
As the days have wound down toward the new year, the media have been saturated with news of woe. Many people would say that sorrowful tales have filled the Internet and the airwaves throughout 2016 to such an extent that it has been the absolute worst year in living memory. …
