The Humanitas Forum

Will our children grow up to believe in Jesus Christ?  Will they live according to the Christian faith?  Or, will they “disengage” from church along with others in the 80-percent who currently drop out between high school and …

Ours is an age of anxiety—a time of uncertainty when the fundamental nature of our society is being contested.  The term “culture wars” is often used to describe some of the more prominent flash points.   A woman’s right …

Theology, of late years, has been having what is known as ‘a bad press.’  We’re told that theology is dry and academic.  People prefer spirituality to religion.  Doctrine is dull.  Or in the words of one …

Pre-Christian.  Christian.   Post-Christian.  Roughly speaking, these categories outline the major changes in the history of the Western world.  We say “roughly speaking” because the West never became fully Christian.  And even now, it is not …

Christ and culture!  What is the place of Jesus Christ and his followers in this world?  This is the “enduring problem” that H. Richard Niebuhr discusses in his, now classic, Christ and Culture (1951).  Niebuhr’s important and …

“Why do Christians sing?”  This question is, of course, a subset of a larger question, “Why do human beings sing?”  According to the Scottish composer and hymn writer John Bell, “We sing because we can.”  It is something …

Religion is special!  As such, it should be accorded a special place in the lives of nations as well as in the lives of individuals.  These assumptions were foundational to the vision of the American Founders and, accordingly, …

The goal of “Operation Gravedigger” is the subversion of the modern Church, as explained in the first post on The Last Christian on Earth:  “The Christian faith contributed decisively to the rise of the modern world, but it …

At the heart of the modern mindset is a negative sort of freedom, “freedom from”—freedom from tradition, freedom from lasting commitments, freedom from a place, freedom from other people’s expectations, and so on.  The absence of external constraints allows …

“Privately engaging, socially irrelevant.”  This phrase succinctly summarizes what the Assistant Director calls “the private-zoo factor.”  It is a form of dualism that restricts religion to the personal lives of believers and prevents the Christian faith from invading …