Urban areas tend to attract members of the 'knowledge class' - people who work with ideas, data, information.

We do not create marriage from scratch. Instead, in the elegant language of the marriage ceremony, we 'enter into the holy estate of matrimony.'

The most consistent versions of materialism deny the reality of anything beyond matter – no soul, no spirit, no will, no mind. This is called reductionism: Humans are reduced to biochemical machines.

Because a human is a someone and not a something, the source of human life must also be a Someone – not the blind, automatic forces of nature, as philosophies like naturalism and materialism tell us.

Darwinism has become our culture’s official creation myth, protected by a priesthood as dogmatic as any religious curia.

To use biblical language, those who exchange the glory of God for something in creation will also exchange the image of God for something in creation – and because it is something less than God, it always leads to a lower view of humanity.

If people deny free will, then when ordering at a restaurant they should say, “Just bring me whatever the laws of nature have determined that I will get.”

Urban areas tend to attract members of the ‘knowledge class’ – people who work with ideas, data, information.

The word ‘tolerance’ once meant we all have the right to argue rationally for our deepest convictions in the public arena. Now it means those convictions are not even subject to rational debate.

In many churches, the message of justification- how to get right with God- is preached over and over again. But much less is said about sanctification- how to live after you’re converted.