Secular stereotypes about religion die hard. On February 1, 1993, Washington Post reporter Michael Weisskopf wrote that politically conservative Christians are “poor, uneducated, and easy to command.” Reinforcing the stereotype, during the 2008 presidential campaign, candidate Barack Obama said that working-class voters “cling to guns or religion.”
However, author Charles Murray shows that not only is this liberal trope false—it is less true than ever before. Unfortunately, that’s not all good news for Christians.
“God Almighty has set before me two great objects, the suppression of the Slave Trade and the Reformation of Manners.” --William Wilberforce
As discussed in Part 1, it took nearly a half-century of dedicated advocacy by William Wilberforce and his Clapham friends before emancipation became reality in the British Empire. It was a frustratingly long time, but across the Atlantic, the prize took much longer to achieve and exacted a much higher price.
[Ed. note: This is the first installment of Annie Provencher's new column for BreakPoint. The first two paragraphs below explain her column's title, "Through the Window." --GRD]
“The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it. It is good that the window should be transparent, because the street or garden beyond it is opaque. How if you saw through the garden too? It is no use trying to ‘see through’ first principles. If you see through everything, then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To ‘see through’ all things is the same as not to see.” -- C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man
Lord Jesus, Let us look at the circumstances of our lives, the moments that fill our days, and the things that surround us as we look through a window: with our hearts set on seeing what is real and knowing what is true.
War Horse, directed by Steven Spielberg, is the tale of a boy and his horse . . . or perhaps more aptly put, a horse and his boy.
All this has exposed a lot of facts that had been glossed over or ignored before. It's quite something when you see the founder of Komen stating on the front page of the Washington Post that Planned Parenthood does not do mammograms, only referrals. READ FULL ARTICLE »
By: Gina Dalfonzo|Published: February 1, 2012 5:30 PM
In recent years, Christians have become increasingly active in the fight against human trafficking and prostitution. We’ve reached out to the victims, helping them to take steps toward freedom, recovery, and new lives.
By: Rebecca Poe Hays|Published: January 24, 2012 2:25 PM
At a recent gathering of seminary students who were engaged in ministry internships, one of the students began talking about her work as a children's minister. She was enjoying the experience, and the children all seemed to be enjoying their time with her on Sundays, but she expressed her concern that the curriculum she was using was not theological enough. "I don't want them just to hear Bible stories all the time," she said. "I want them to learn theology."
By: Dennis Babish|Published: January 19, 2012 2:24 PM
In a recent issue of the Washington Post Magazine, Susan Baer wrote a very touching story, “A family learns the true meaning of the vow ‘in sickness and in health.’” It tells of the marriage of Page and Robert Melton, a marriage that was a happy one with two little girls and everything positive going for them. This all changed in 2003, when Robert had a heart attack and stopped breathing for at least 30 minutes.
John Stonestreet interviews apologetics giants Lee Strobel and Mark Mittelberg about answering the tough questions.
[Ed. note: This is the first installment of Annie Provencher's new column for BreakPoint. The first two paragraphs below explain her column's title, "Through the Window." --GRD]