- Fri, Jul 08, 1994
- Culture and Worldview
Resources: Culture and Worldview
- Tue, Feb 01, 1994
- Christian Life, Culture and Worldview
Prime Time Values
It was a story so great, so important, so attractive and instructive for American families, that all three networks felt they had to turn it into a feature television movie.
- Sat, Jan 01, 1994
- Culture and Worldview, Doctrine and Theology, Prolife
Euthanasia: Mercy or Murder?
I used this article in a course I taught at Multnomah Bible College—Soc 111, Contemporary Social Ethics.
- Sat, Jan 01, 1994
- Culture and Worldview, Marriage and Family, Sexual Purity
In Condoms We Trust
This article originally appeared in the January-February issue of Eternal Perspectives, EPM's quarterly newsletter.
A recent “Primetime Live” program covered public schools whose health clinics are now surgically inserting Norplant beneath the skin of teenage girls. The practice is controversial not only because Norplant is a five year birth control device, but because it is being implanted without the permission of parents. (Yes, parents. Remember us?)
One of those interviewed was a junior high school principal, who defended the distribution of Norplant without parental permission. Her most memorable statement was, “morality is one thing, reality is another.” An interesting ...
- Sat, Jan 01, 1994
- Culture and Worldview, Prolife
A Prayer 20 Years After Roe v. Wade
This originally appeared in the January-February 1994 issue of Eternal Perspectives, EPM's quarterly newsletter.
Our Father in Heaven, we thank you that you are the Sovereign Lord of the Universe. That no bird falls from the sky without your knowledge. That no man rises to power without your permission. We thank you that the king’s heart is in your hand, and you can turn it however you wish.
We pray for our president elect. First, we pray for his repentance and enlightenment. We pray for an awareness that he will be held accountable for all citizens of this ...
- Mon, Nov 01, 1993
- Christian Life, Culture and Worldview
Self-love and Scripture
I was on the east coast speaking at one of the finest Christian camps in the country. There in the bookstore, surrounded by great books by J. I. Packer, John Stott and others, was a book called, Selling Yourself on You. It is endorsed on the back by a Christian leader who says, “This book will help thousands to realize they are the most important person in their lives.” (I hope I don’t need to point out the built-in heresy of this statement.)
- Wed, Sep 01, 1993
- Culture and Worldview
Psychology & the Bible
In the evangelical churches of America, many people who do not know the meaning of “substitutionary atonement,” “sanctification,” “holiness” and “depravity” are becoming intimately acquainted with the meaning of “codependency,” “enabler,” “dysfunction” and “abuse.”
- Sun, Aug 01, 1993
- Culture and Worldview, Sexual Purity
Do We Celebrate Diversity?
I submitted the following opinion piece to the Gresham Outlook in August of 1993. It wasn’t printed (no excerpts either). Because it reflects trends not just in my area but around the country, I’m including it here.
- Mon, Jul 26, 1993
- Culture and Worldview
Gay March on Washington
Lesbian marchers filed past the White House, chanting "Chelsea, Chelsea!" Elsewhere, another lesbian group took up the cry: "10 percent is not enough! Recruit! Recruit! Recruit!"
- Mon, Jul 19, 1993
- Culture and Worldview, Sexual Purity
Gay Rights As Seen by Some Homosexuals
In a special section of New Republic magazine. Andrew Sullivan and other gay writers called for an abandonment of the civil-rights approach. Sullivan faulted the civil-rights approach. Sullivan faulted the civil-rights strategy because it is based on two faulty assumptions: “that sexuality is equivalent to race in terms of discrimination, and that full equality of homosexuals can be accomplished by designating gay people as victims.”
Sullivan, the gay, white male, is as quick to point out the differences between race and sexual orientation as is James, the straight, black female. “Unlike blacks three decades ago,” writes Sullivan, “gay men and ...
